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I welcome your feedback on the websites. If you find a bad link, an inappropriate link, or you have suggestions for the tutorials, I would love to hear from you! I do read and appreciate all input regarding my websites. Consider this my "thank-you" in advance.

If you want to send a complement, you can email me, or you can post comments on my Facebook Page. Please do not ask irrigation questions on my Facebook page as I will just delete them. See below for irrigation questions.

Errors: If you find an error in the website please give me the address (URL) of the page you found it on if you can. With several websites and hundreds of pages of content it really helps me in locating the error. Thank you very much for your assistance!

Link Requests

See The Irrigation Industry Directory and look for the Submit tab.

Irrigation & Landscape Questions:

Here are a few suggestions for getting answers to your questions. PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE ME WITH QUESTIONS.

Step One:

The best place to start if you have a question is with a search of the website by entering a search phrase below. The answers to the most common questions are here if you dig deep enough. (I have several websites and this search engine searches all of them, so you may see some weird results regarding hotels and my family vacations!)

(This search feature is provided by Google and is subject to Google's privacy policy.)

Step Two:

Step Three:

Try a local store or nursery. For irrigation questions go to a store that specializes in irrigation equipment. I haven't found that the employees at hardware and home-center stores are knowledgeable about irrigation. I often check out the irrigation department of those stores to look for new products, and I overhear a LOT of bad advice being given by their employees. About 80% of what I overhear is at least marginally bad advice. Some of the advice I hear is not just bad, it is just flat wrong! There are some shining exceptions, of course, and if you work at one of those stores I'm sure that you are one of them! But the bottom line is that you are better off going to a professional irrigation specialty store if you need irrigation advice, and even then use care.

Step Four:

Ask me! You can try asking me, I will answer if I'm not busy with other things. I will ask for something in return. If you don't hear back from me within 5 days assume I didn't have time for questions.

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Want to Ask Me an Irrigation Question?
HERE'S THE FINE PRINT - PLEASE READ IT!!!

I make my living from my knowledge of irrigation. Therefore in exchange for personal answers to irrigation questions I do ask for something from you in return. After all, I am taking the time to write a personal answer for you and more important, to try to make it understandable.

PAYMENT TERMS: You choose your payment. There are several FREE options that only require investing a little of your time.

1. Start by giving me a thumbs up! Like, share, or tweet your social network(s) about my irrigation website. It's free, fast and easy to do. You will find quick buttons for this on my homepage at www.IrrigationTutorials.com. You will also find these buttons on many of my articles. While not a requirement, this would sure be a nice thing to do to "butter me up" before sending me your question! :)

2. After I've answered your question. If you are happy with the solution, then please consider...

• Make a donation to help pay for keeping this website on-line. Suggested amount is $10.00 for the first question, $5 for each additional question. Money is always needed for various things to improve the website like software or the website hosting fees I pay to keep it online. Sorry, donations are not tax-deductible as I am not a registered non-profit. Use the PayPal "Donate" button near the bottom of this page.
• Promoting any or all of my websites is always a huge help, as I don't have an advertising budget. It doesn't cost you a thing, but benefits me by exposing my websites to more people. Word of mouth praise is wonderful. If you have a website or blog, how about adding a link to www.IrrigationTutorials.com (and/or one of my other websites.) Just please don't post a message someplace not appropriate, make sure you know the rules regarding links for the website where you post the link. I don't need angry people coming after me.
• Mention my website to the staff at your local hardware store, the people there are often looking for ways to build their knowledge and increase their sales! If they sell irrigation products and have a website suggest they get their website listed in my Industry Directory (listings are free!) Anything that gets the word out helps!
• Make me an offer! This is the most fun option for me! It's interesting to get simi-worthless trinkets from people, especially things with a local flavor from where you live or work. I've had folks send me all sorts of interesting things over the years; T-shirts, German chocolate (from someone in Germany!), honey from a beekeeper, legally licensed software, even interesting photos they've taken of places I'll never have the opportunity to see. Your imagination is the limit!

Please wait until I've answered your question before you make a donation or send anything valuable to me. If I don't answer I don't want you to feel I cheated you! I'll trust you to keep your side of the bargain after I've helped you.

GROUND RULES: While I can likely answer your question, I don't have time for lots of questions or to design your system for you! Please be reasonable, it takes me 5-10 minutes to read and answer even a very simple question. I often spend 15 minutes or more on the complex questions that people tend to ask.

Pump questions: I can't tell you what size or brand of pump to buy. I simply don't have enough knowledge of pump brands and models. I suggest you read my pump tutorial, figure out the GPM and PSI you need, then talk to a professional pump dealer.

PRIVACY NOTICE: The irrigation related questions you ask may be made public! You agree that any irrigation-related question you submit may be displayed or published on the Internet. You agree that your question may be edited to clarify it, or remove content that is not of interest. To assist others with similar questions or problems I publish many of the questions, along with my answers. Normally I edit the questions considerably and remove names, locations, etc. If you are concerned with security, feel free to use a first name only, a fake name, initials, or no name at all if you wish, it is not my goal to publicly identify you! I will attempt to remove any specific identifying details from your question, however if I slip up you agree to not hold me liable for damages. Sometimes my brain can get a little dippy and I do slip up now and then. If I do let something slip that I shouldn't, it is not intentional, and please let me know about it! It is best if you avoid putting any personally identifying details in your questions. Thanks!

I do not answer every question sent in. I do answer most of them. Suggestion- try to ask a single question or make sure that questions are closely related to the same problem. Don't send a list of questions! A whole list of questions makes me feel overwhelmed and almost guarantees I will just hit the delete key. Keep it simple, you can always ask more questions later if needed.

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Donations:

Donations go toward the cost of writing and developing more content for IrrigationTutorials.com. Sorry, donations are NOT tax deductible. While advertising revenue covers the costs of keeping the tutorials online, it does not cover all of the costs, especially the hours of time it takes to write, rewrite, and rewrite again. All those rewrites are what it takes the tutorials easier to understand. Thank you for your support!

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