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Bob Robertson Bob Robertson is offline
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Default Drip irrigation system keeps springing leaks?!

Hey Jerry - Mine are buried also - In your opinion, would buried drip lines
fail after ~10 yrs in AZ?

Bob

Hello ,

Bob wrote:

But more likely is that the problem lines have been exposed to the
sun for too many years. Plastic exposed to the sun tends to get
brittle.

Ditto that, lived in AZ since 1980, and the UV just kills plastic, all
of my drip lines are buried.

Jerry