The Fix-It Playbook — Sprinkler Winterizing Decision Checklist

Before the first hard freeze, find out which drain method your system actually needs — and whether it's yours to do.

Water expands when it freezes, and a sprinkler system still full of it splits pipe, valves and backflow devices. There are three ways to get the water out, and which one applies to you depends on how your system was built — not on preference.

On one printable page: the three drain methods matched to system type, the compressor PSI and CFM limits that decide whether a blow-out is safe to attempt yourself, and the spring startup checks that reveal freeze damage.

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