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Green Guru Blog

Educational guides and field notes for homeowners, HOAs, and commercial properties—focused on reliability, serviceability, and water discipline.

Water discipline Valve access & enclosures Smart control (SRMS) Lighting reliability

Service-first

Fix root cause

We write from the field: what actually fails, what to check first, and what keeps repairs from repeating.

Clarity

Quote drivers

Many upgrades are visit-verified. These posts explain what affects price and feasibility.

Follow-through

Fewer surprises

Better access, documentation, and standards reduce mid-season emergencies and diagnostics.

Better ROI in Irrigation & Landscape Lighting

How to compare providers: reliability standards, serviceability, documentation, and a dedicated connectivity foundation when the equipment needs it.

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The Green Guru Baseline: Why We Use Specific Parts

Why we standardize on specific components: fewer repeat failures, better serviceability, and cleaner long-term reliability.

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Smart Sprinkler Controllers in 2025

What smart controllers do well today—and what they don’t. A service-first setup guide built around mechanical reliability and water discipline.

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Residential Rachio 3 Upgrade & Retrofit

A long-running, service-first install approach: wiring checks, zone mapping, baseline programming, and practical weather-aware scheduling.

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Intake Filter Sizing: 40G vs 80G (BIGFOOT®)

Snippet-targeted guide with sizing, placement, maintenance, and a comparison table + FAQ schema.

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Our Labor Rate Goes Up & Down Every Day. Here’s Why.

Transparent role-based billing: how crew size, routing, and scope affect price—and why a bigger crew can be better ROI.

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Why Lake Irrigation Fails Mid-Season

High-CTR field notes linking algae season intake restriction to "mystery" low coverage and service calls.

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Spray Body Baseline: Low-Head Drainage

Why SAM spray bodies help on mixed-grade sites, plus when drip/subsurface is the better choice.

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The Green Guru Way: Water Discipline

A service-first framework: pressure discipline, coverage discipline, scheduling discipline, and serviceability that reduces repeat failures.

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Turf Rotor Baseline: Slope-Friendly SAM

Field notes on turf rotors: repeatable tuning, cleaner slope behavior, and why pressure discipline matters.

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Master Valves: A Serviceable Baseline

Why master valves matter, how SRMS Tier 2 uses flow + MV, and what we verify before installing one.

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When a PRV Matters. A Case Study.

High source pressure, zone demand math, and why a unionized PRV can stop repeat failures and misting waste.

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Feeling the Pressure: PRVs and the 80 PSI Rule

What the “80 PSI rule” usually means, why it matters for reliability, and why expansion control often comes up with a regulator.

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Lost Valve Boxes: Why Access Matters

Not all valve boxes are equal. Why lids get buried, why access drives reliability, and how we locate valves/wiring and rebuild serviceable enclosures.

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Landscape Lighting Hubs: The Enclosure That Prevents Failures

Why buried splices corrode, how hub enclosures improve serviceability, and when we recommend an Alliance CS100 hub enclosure.

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