Still doing start ups.....

[DanaMac]

It has been such a wet cool summer here, many people have delayed starting their systems. We've done two start ups this week and I think three last week. It's almost August! Some have watered by hand a little bit. The grass may have stressed a little from time to time, but it keeps coming back with a good rain or two.

Still slow here due to this....... Getting few people to upgrade and make changes. Not many though.

[Tom Tom]

I had one scheduled a week or so ago, but they canceled a day later.

I blew out a system for a customers rental home last year. The tenants had never started it up, so no water blew out. The funny part is the tenant called me to have it blown out.

[M L Thomas]

We did 3 start ups last week but none scheduled this week after the 2" rain we had. We will no doubt have a few more once we dry out a little more.

Last year was as wet and cool as this year and we started 23 systems in July and 3 systems in August

[bobw]

I had three calls yesterday for start ups, various reasons why they haven't used the system yet this year; well... 2 were because they didn't pay to have them winterized last year....

[hoskm01]

Dana, youre lucky youre getting some good rain out of this system. Its been a small shower here and there, but the temp and cloudiness is fantastic. 66 today? Couldnt be better.

[DanaMac]

Dana, youre lucky youre getting some good rain out of this system. Its been a small shower here and there, but the temp and cloudiness is fantastic. 66 today? Couldnt be better.

High in the low 70s today, chance of thunderstorms.

We haven't had all day rains, it's been the consistent afternoon downpours. I've watered my natural grass here at the house once. And that was in March when I put seed down. I cut it twice a year, and this year my first cut was earlier than ever, and the grass was up to mid chest height in some areas.

[Mike Leary]

Going to hit 100 here today, could set a record, even our systems are having some stressing issues, we've had no measurable rain since May.

[jerryrwm]

Still have a couple start-ups left. Scheduled for early next week. I was looking at the calendar,and I have about 6 weeks before I start shutting down some of my snow-bird systems. I have two that want their systems shut down by the middle of Sept so they can head south on 1 Oct regardless of the weather.

[AI Inc]

We did one yesterday. Still have some I havnt even heard from.

[Without A Drought]

still have 2-3 a week.

i'm hoping it dries out in the next week or so, then all of the "i have a dry spot" calls will start to come in.

we have a few corporate STO repairs to do, and and a few larger troubleshooting/repair calls and that's about it. next week is rather light.

hopefully it gets real hot real soon.

pg

[WalkGood]

Noticed a Burger King (that I had done the start up for in April) had some brown spots in the turf. Checked the system out. Water was shut off, clock had been unplugged. We've had so much rain (25 days out of July rained, and heavy) since April almost every day. They shut it all off (yes, no rain sensor and they won't pay for one). New to us customer this season.

During the last week, not as much rain, so turf started to stress in hot weather with direct Sun on some days.

It was like I was doing the start up all over again. Heads stuck below turf and deep under the new mulch. Reset and programed controller after turning on the water.

It's going to be an interesting phone call when they get a bill for a (2nd) start up at end of July!