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The first thing to ask yourself when deciding when to begin watering is, "How's the weather?" March thru May is generally wet and mild. This gives many here at the Jersey Shore plenty of time to plant and plan ahead for a beautiful summer. The simple answer is when it gets hot and dry.
Generally speaking, any time after Halloween. Due to the warm ocean water surrounding the island, it actually protects the pipes deeper into winter then say the main land where things would have started popping and breaking.
The back-flow device protects your house water from contamination. The poly pipe used in the transportation of water has no protection from ground hazards like pesticides and other chemicals used for all kinds of ground treatments. Those chemicals eventually seep into the poly lines tainting the water inside the poly. To ensure that dirty water stays outside, we use a back-flow. " For ever action there is an opposite and equal reaction." The water that is trying to get back inside the building will be purged from the top of the back-flow.
NO! The back-flow needs to be serviced for one thing. Inspections and test are problematic in crawl spaces. Also the device is meant to purge water. This means the moisture level in a crawl space would be extremely high. This causes mold, mildew and rot.
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