Home irrigation systems are incredibly convenient; they make it easy to keep your lawn and garden lush and green without much physical labor. However, a sprinkler system can develop problems over time ...

We turn this week to mechanical issues, but not the kind related to your setup or your swing. Our focus is sprinkler systems. Fairways have them. Front lawns, too. And while these systems vary in ...

If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which expands and cracks pipes, valves, and other expensive components. Come ...

Q: My son was in the backyard playing soccer, and he must have hit a sprinkler head. The sprinkler now wobbles from side to side, and when the water comes on it’s like Old Faithful. How can I fix it?

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...