You basically have the best options already....

I think it would depend on the size of the strips and the customer

It depends on a per basis job but what I would do is take the smaller section of the curb lawn out of my original bid and give them a optional add on to irrigation this area.

 

Boots will tell you to just spray across the sidewalk and drive .... it is close enough. :laugh:

 

Boots will tell you to just spray across the sidewalk and drive .... it is close enough. :laugh:

Yea! Like this! Just water across the sidewalk :laugh:

 

Yea! Like this! Just water across the sidewalk

WTF? RB makes some pretty cool (for plastic) strip sprays that would have taken care of that. With enough pressure, the MP Rotator strips would do it too.

 

For future reference, it's called a parkway.
And a major pet-peeve of mine is when it isn't on it's own zone. That strip of grass being closer to the street is more prone to drying out with the sun reflecting off the asphalt.
Strip sprays in triangular spacing for parkways 4' and under. Half circles for parkways 5 feet and over. Spacing of the heads should not exceed the width of the parkway.

 

I have special glasses that render sidewalks invisible ~ just proceed as though they aren't there

 

Around here, the parkway belongs to the city and not the homeowner, although it is the homeowner's job to take care of it. The city doesn't allow installation in the parkway, although some homeowners will have it done anyway.

 

For future reference, it's called a parkway.

I call it a street strip. A parkway exists in the middle of the road, or as a 'median'. Potato/Poetawtoe

Strip sprays in triangular spacing for parkways 4' and under. Half circles for parkways 5 feet and over. Spacing of the heads should not exceed the width of the parkway.

Sprays in small spaces are a thing of the past, if you care about overspray. SDI till we die!

 

Where I am we have to water the turf area between the sidewalk and road/curb with drip, the pain is that most of the time the drive way bi sects the strip and it is a pain to water both sides.

Looking for better ideas than what I am doing now which is using two valves in lue of boring under the drive to run a line to the other strip.

Thanks for the advice!

My guess is time and cost wise boring costs more than an extra valve. At least with a valve there are no unknowns. Boring can on occasion have disasters. It also weakens the driveway in the area of the bore. I've seen many a cracked sidewalk and driveway from an underwunder boring machine. I think you are doing it the best way. Still sux though.

 

For future reference, it's called a parkway.
And a major pet-peeve of mine is when it isn't on it's own zone. That strip of grass being closer to the street is more prone to drying out with the sun reflecting off the asphalt.
Strip sprays in triangular spacing for parkways 4' and under. Half circles for parkways 5 feet and over. Spacing of the heads should not exceed the width of the parkway.

We have regs that prevent us from using spray heads on "parkways." Also if drip is not it's own zone you will not pass inspection.

Thanks for all the advice I just wish there was an easier way, it is a major PITA.

 

an engineer that i have done lots of work for was originally english, (U S citizen since 1952 and he makes that known) and he has never lost his strong accent.

he calls these strips parkways but emphasizes that parkway is a term, like pathway (sidewalk) and is more regional than proper.


–noun
1.
a broad thoroughfare with a dividing strip or side strips planted with grass, trees, etc.
2.
Chiefly new york State and Western New England . a strip of grass, sometimes planted with trees or shrubs, between a sidewalk and curb.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Noun 1. parkwayparkway - a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views"
drive
road, route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

 

In this part of New York, no one calls that grass strip between sidewalk and curb a "parkway".

The "parkway" we refer to is the major roadways where commercial plates are not allowed to drive. Southern State Parkway. Northern State Parkway. Grand Central Parkway. Although we just say "Southern State" or "Grand Central". The major road for any vehicle is "Da L-I-E", or "Da Expressway".

Just sayin'.

 

I call it the grass strip between the curb and sidewalk myself.

The city in most anywhere usually controls that area. In Richardson, TX it extends 2'on the other side of the sidewalk as well if memory serves me correct.

 

I call it the grass strip between the curb and sidewalk myself.

The city in most anywhere usually controls that area. In Richardson, TX it extends 2'on the other side of the sidewalk as well if memory serves me correct.

if richardson tx is like most communities, they claim 2' beyond for utilities easement.

the property owner in most cases is responsible for upkeep and liability and pays taxes on the square footage of the property but the municipality claims rights over the same area.......almost like a stewardship it is

 

We have regs that prevent us from using spray heads on "parkways." Also if drip is not it's own zone you will not pass inspection.

Thanks for all the advice I just wish there was an easier way, it is a major PITA.

Where did I mention drip?

I don't know about the whole terminology, around here most people call it the parkway. Looking at the various definitions looks like most of you are right. Allot of old fogies in the irrigation industry designated their strip nozzles as "parkway"strips so that's where I get part of my info. I mentioned the term at a family get-together and one of my relatives wasn't familiar with the term, so I imagine it is a regional term like 1idejim said.

 

I call it a street strip. A parkway exists in the middle of the road, or as a 'median'. Potato/Poetawtoe

I've always called it a "park strip", my g/f , who is originally from Ohio, calls it a "curb lawn" or a "tree lawn", and I had a customer who came here from Maryland, I think, call it a "verge"....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_lawn

 

Anyone here from Akron to explain why they call it a "devil strip"?

 

Yeah I'm with Peter

I actually never use the word parkway. But then again I didn't know that was the proper term

 

Parkway or parking strip here. Or "that pain in the azz area that wastes a ton of water".

 

Always heard it called a "Parking Strip". What ever.

Would a broken pipe under the ground qualify as sub-surface irrigation?

 

Always heard it called a "Parking Strip". What ever.

Would a broken pipe under the ground qualify as sub-surface irrigation?

yup, they call it a leak........

seen one before :laugh:

 

For future reference, it's called a parkway.

It might be called that in your neck of the woods, but here it's call the/a boulevard.

Names are regional.

Mick

 

yup, they call it a leak........

seen one before :laugh:

I can't say if it is a leak or not, cause I ain't got me 30 years experience.

 

I can't say if it is a leak or not, cause I ain't got me 30 years experience.

Subtleties and sarcasm become you, you make me and Mom proud. :clapping:

 

Subtleties and sarcasm become you, you make me and Mom proud. :clapping:

Thanks Dad .... ::sheds a tear::