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Landscape Irrigation

Postby MudHog » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:10 am

While browsing the Gemper's catalog yesterday I stumbled upon a kit they offer of (8) taps and fittings / hoses for $42. Got me thinking of doing something for my beds in the yard.

I'm thinking I want to do a timer being I have power at my deck.


What are my options and yall suggestions?
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby Dux Be Us » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:14 am

Gotta link?

I do my watering by hose right now...gives me time to cuss em out :wink:
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby 4dawgma » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:14 am

u talkin about a soaker hose set up? if so i'd just get a hose timer from lowes
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby MudHog » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:35 am

this is what I'm talking about from Gemplers: http://www.gemplers.com/product/147717/ ... l-Drip-Kit


So I would just need a hose timer from Lowe's like this: http://www.lowes.com/pd_62056-1029-MLWT ... se%20timer


They do have the mechanical ones available too.



mechanical time at gempler's: http://www.gemplers.com/product/127631/ ... ater-Timer
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby brandon327 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:30 pm

I used the mister landscaper irrigation from lowes. I put drip irrigation in. All i needed was a water faucet for the timer. It automatically comes on every day at a set time and a set amount of time. The timer operates off of a battery.
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby landscaper » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:03 am

If I wasn't going to do a professionally installed irrigation system, I'd seriously just think about soaker hoses and a timer. Get enough hose to at least pass over the root ball, if not loop once around the trunk, of each plant in your beds. Cover the hoses with mulch to hide and help reduce water loss to evaporation. You really, really, get what you pay for in irrigation. That "quicky do-it-yourself" stuff will nickle and dime you to death trying to keep it running.
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby 4dawgma » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:37 am

yep, I sent a guy out to a client's house in Old Waverly (of all places) to fix an irrigation problem. This man is retired and sometimes I think he tears this stuff up so I will come out and talk football or whatever. anyway, the yard is rotors and it was fine, but beds in front and back were drip. well, i found a cut hose here and a missing emitter there, sent my guy out to fix and he ended up spending close to 6 hours there :shock: cut pipe everywhere (from the grounds people) and 78 missing emitters. We could have installed a whole new setup for the time it took to fix the old one.
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby MudHog » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:45 am

thanks guys,

I'll look at at soaker hoses, but what is a rough guess on what a "professional" install would run? I have (1) 8' x 8' bed and one L shaped bed that is 18' x 18' and 3' wide.
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

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Re: Landscape Irrigation

Postby donia » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:52 am

just make up a hose to run from faucet to first bed with repair ends, you can get at lowe's, and an old piece of hose.
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Re: Landscape Irrigation

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