How reticulation works

What’s inside the parts under your lawn, and how our technicians fix them. Each explainer is an animation you can pause, scrub and step through.

• How a reticulation solenoid valve worksWhat opens and closes each watering station, and how we test and service one.
• Inside a gear-drive pop-up rotorThe eleven parts inside a rotor, from the inlet screen to the rubber cover.
• Pop-up spray and shrub riser: how they workLawn head or garden-bed head: what's inside each, and why they're different.
• How we repair a cracked PVC reticulation pipeCut, prime, PVC solvent, hold: a PVC repair step by step, and the other ways to do it.
• EZ-Tube vs a rigid nipple: what happens when a pop-up is driven overWhy we never screw a pop-up straight onto the pipe.
• Concrete protectors for pop-up sprinklersThe fix for the sprinkler next to the driveway that keeps getting run over.