Irrigation Product Alert 101: Toro Flo Pro Valves

Stay away from the Toro Flo Pro valves, most of Toro's irrigation products leave a lot to be desired but the Flo Pro valves are lacking reliability of that over cheap knock-off brands one could find in a box store. If you have Toro Flo Pro valves its not a matter of if they will need to be replaced with a professional grade valve it is just a matter of when they will need to be replaced. If you have one or two go bad, my recommendation is to rip them all out when the manifold system is dug up. Digging up the manifold is the time consuming part of the service so you might as well replace all the other valves if you want to save money in the long run..

We are seeing a number of older Toro Flo Pro valves in Strongsville, Aurora & North Royalton. It seems to have been a favorite for a few contractors.

Timers/Clocks that we have noticed having issues so far: Rain Bird ESP (pre 2006), Hunter SRC (pre 2005), Toro (all), Irritrol (older Rain Dials) and there was 1 batch of bad Hunter Pro-C's that had a very limited date code on them. Off the top of my head I can't quite remember but I believe they had the grey mods inside them and may have been in the 2nd or 3rd year of production w/ a spring date code.