Backflow Prevention Devices are used to prevent contaminated water from your sprinkler system from entering your drinking water. When backflow occurs, water runs backwards through your pipes and into the drinking water system. That is why you must use one of the backflow devices below to protect your drinking water!
How to Choose a Backflow Device
Choosing which brand of Backflow Preventer to get is typically a matter of personal preference. It seems that across the country each brand has an area inwhich it is most popular. Most people look around and use the brand backflow device that appears to be most dominate in their area.
It is more important to select the correct type of backflow device than to select it by brand name.
Atmospheric
Vacuum Breaker
Avoid this type of backflow device since it is
extremely unreliable!
If you make this selection, be sure to buy one unit per
control valve located on the landscape. They are the cheapest of
backflow preventers, however, almost all city codes do not allow
the use of this type backflow device for sprinkler systems.
Pressure Vacuum
Breaker
Comparable in function to the AVB but only requires the
installation of one breaker for the entire irrigation system.
Accordingly, the number of control valves on your property is
irrelevant.
This is one of our Best Selling types of
backflow devices.
Reduced Pressure
Backflow Preventer
The best that money can buy, this preventer is almost always
found in a commercial sprinkler system and can be a great
compliment to a residential system as well. The device allows
for the application of fertilizers or other chemicals into the
irrigation system, a function that no other preventer performs.
Double Check
Backflow Preventer
Does not allow for the application of chemicals into the
irrigation system.
This is one of our Best Selling types of
backflow devices. It works great when installing the backflow
device in a basement or below grade.
How to Choose a Backflow Device
