Advise requested: where to run sprinkler wire, attic or around?

[DougB]

Hi there. I'm pretty bad, I'm a do-it-yourself wannabe. I try to do
things, usually do an okay job just takes me 3 times as many trips to
home depot as it should.

I want to run sprinkler wire, I have a timer in my garage for the
front yard. I just put in sprinklers in the back, I'm proud of my
work. But now I want to run wire for the timer.

I figure choices would be to put in a new timer, which is costly, and
there's no outlet out back. Or I can run wire to the existing timer,
which can handle the extra valves.

The problem is how to run the wire. I can go up the wall, along the
?? whatever it's called, eaves? With little c-clamp things that nail
into wood, around the side of the house toward the garage, and then
find a way in, or I can go up the wall, find a way into the attic,
across the attic, and then into the garage from attic, and down the
wall to the timer.

Tho not great, there's some pictures of the 'path' I just took, at
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/imafriend/sprinklers.htm

Digital cameras are a great thing, aren't they?

Any advice would be most warmly welcomed! Thanks!

DougB

[RamblinOn]

DougB wrote:

>Hi there. I'm pretty bad, I'm a do-it-yourself wannabe. I try to do
>things, usually do an okay job just takes me 3 times as many trips to
>home depot as it should.
>
>I want to run sprinkler wire, I have a timer in my garage for the
>front yard. I just put in sprinklers in the back, I'm proud of my
>work. But now I want to run wire for the timer.
>
>I figure choices would be to put in a new timer, which is costly, and
>there's no outlet out back. Or I can run wire to the existing timer,
>which can handle the extra valves.
>

Bury the wire or it will look like crap, IMO Run it beneath the water
line..

[Gary Tait]

IMO, stay out of the attic.