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How to Work with your Plants: The Revolutionary Idea of Smart Irrigation

Jul 8, 2024

While gardening is a wonderful pastime enjoyed by many people throughout the warm seasons, it is not without its plights and follies. Whether it is the deer making a midnight snack of your newly planted flowers or a sudden lack of rain, finding the best way to maintain your garden is always on a gardener’s radar. Which is why we would love to introduce the idea of smart irrigation! 

Smart Irrigation takes timed sprinklers a step farther by adjusting your water usage each day based on weather patterns and/or the current condition of the soil. These systems have sensors that closely monitor the daily amount of moisture in the soil so it knows how much water to release per day. Some systems even have the ability to incorporate local weather data to adjust your systems for incoming rain! This is both beneficial for the plants and the person! For your plants, this reduces the risk of either over or under watering your flowery friends. And for people using these systems have reported noticeable differences in their water bills, they are using less water than they would with a traditional sprinkler system. 

So how does one go about finding if these would work for your garden? There are a few things to consider while looking for a smart irrigation system. The first being whether or not you are happy with your current irrigation system in place, or if you are looking to install a new system. If you’re content with your current system, there are soil moisture sensors that are designed to integrate with a pre-existing set up. Though it is recommended to do a quick search on which sensors would best integrate with your current home systems. If you’re looking for a whole new system replacement, we recommend looking at brands such as the Moen Smart Sprinkler Controller and Moen Wireless Soil Sensors. Similar to its sibling, the Moen Flo Whole House Leak Detection, this system is built to work wirelessly for easy integration into your household. 

Another thing to consider is the size of your garden and how many stations you may  have. Checking the product information to see how many stations these sensors can handle before purchasing can help save a return trip to the shop! While your standard smart timer is going to be able to hold around 6 to 8 stations, there are some like the Orbit Smart Irrigation Timer that can handle up to 16 stations for those with vast gardens! 

 

The final thing we recommend considering is your current household technology. For example, if your household uses a lot of Alexa products, there are smart irrigation systems that are built to work with Alexa, such as the Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler System. If you prefer to just have your phone, looking to see if the smart irrigation system is more compatible with iOS systems or Androids systems can also help you avoid glitchy system issues post install! 

Regardless, we are excited to see these systems take off and help us with both our water usage and our plant health. So at the end of the day, we can grab our favorite drinks and enjoy a happy garden.

 

Need help selecting or installing an irrigation system for your yard? We’d love to help! Contact us at 636-391-1233 

 

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World Plumbing Day 2023

Mar 8, 2023

Saturday, March 11, 2023 is World Plumbing Day!

JJ Kokesh and Son is proud to support this day dedicated to promoting the link between good plumbing with sanitation and human, environmental health.

World Plumbing Day is very important for 4 main reasons:

  1. To help remind ourselves to be grateful for the skills of those who work on our plumbing systems.
  2. To concentrate on communities that still need more and better plumbing to have improved living standards and a better life.
  3. To raise awareness about the health related outcomes of plumbing that often get taken for granted.
  4. To reflect on innovative plumbing advancements to protect public health and improve the world.

We are very grateful for all of our plumbers here at Kokesh Plumbing and the skill and wisdom that they bring to each and every job. Our plumbers work tirelessly to solve the problems facing out customer and we appreciate the work that the do every day. We  salute them and all of the other plumbers in Local 562, for the great work that they do consistently.

There are many communities in this world that need help getting adequate plumbing in order to improve their living standards and create a better life for the people in that community. Over 1 billion people gained access to piped supplies between 2000 and 2015, which is an amazing start but there is still much work to be done.

263 million people spend over 30 minutes per round trip to collect safe drinking water.

2.1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe, readily available water at home.

4.5 billion people do not have toilets in their homes.

While there is much work to do, we can celebrate that the global population who used managed sanitation services increased from 28% in 2000 to 39% in 2015, steady improvement over time is how we help these communities and help with the overall health of the world.

Plumbing is very important to the heath of the world, and making sure that everyone has access to proper plumbing is something that we care deeply about. Poor or no pluming in communities world wide can lead to many health problems – for example, 892 million people in the world still practice open defecation which leads to 361,000 children under the age of 5 dying each year due to water borne diarrhea. The water they use near rivers and toilet areas become comminated leading to a higher risk of diarrhea, typhoid, hepatitis, polio and other diseases.

Poor plumbing is not just limited to homes, schools also lack proper plumbing which poses a problem for students worldwide. 900 million school children have no handwashing facilities in their schools and 1:5 schools do not provide any toilet facilities. This leads to an up swing in deadly diseases and can particularly prevent girls from attending school when they begin menstruation. It is important that these communities get the plumbing that they need to help prevent the spread of disease and help make a more equitable world.

THE WORLD PLUMBING COUNCIL’S MISSION IS TO:

ACHIEVE THE BEST POSSIBLE PLUMBING FOR THE WORLD THROUGH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD’S PLUMBING INDUSTRIES.

Plumbing has come a long way in the past few years especially making advancements in tech for example, up to 30 percent of all water is lost because of leaks or burst water pipes. There are water monitoring and leak detection systems that will send alerts to phone to let you know about water usage, a detected a leak, and let you remotely shut off your water in case of emergencies. The Flo by Moen, Grohe Sense and Flo- Logic are all brands that we have installed for customers and would be happy to help you decide what would be best for your home.

We are glad to have this day to celebrate plumbing and the gifts that it has brought to our world. If you need help with your plumbing, or just want to celebrate World Plumbing Day with us, please give us a call at 636-391-1233!