How Do You Install A Sprinkler System?
• Draw a diagram, to scale if possible, of your lawn and garden areas you wish to irrigate. This will enable you to plan the routing of pipelines and placement of sprinkler heads so you can purchase your materials. Loading… • Divide the areas into rectangles (if possible) of about 1200 square feet each. These will be your “zones”, or areas which will be watered as a unit. Larger areas will require special heads and a higher volume of water than you can normally get from a residential water system. • Chose the appropriate sprinkler heads to cover your zone, using pop-up impulse or gear driven heads for wide grassy areas, shrub heads or bubblers for shrubs and flowers, and fixed pop-up heads for locations ajoining buildings or paved areas like driveways and streets. • Mark the location of each head in accordance with the spraying distance of the heads you choose. Rainbird R-50’s, a common good quality head, will spray an arc, semicircle, or full circle about 25-30 feet in diameter, so
• Draw a diagram, to scale if possible, of your lawn and garden areas you wish to irrigate. This will enable you to plan the routing of pipelines and placement of sprinkler heads so you can purchase your materials. • Divide the areas into rectangles (if possible) of about 1200 square feet each. These will be your “zones”, or areas which will be watered as a unit. Larger areas will require special heads and a higher volume of water than you can normally get from a residential water system. • Chose the appropriate sprinkler heads to cover your zone, using pop-up impulse or gear driven heads for wide grassy areas, shrub heads or bubblers for shrubs and flowers, and fixed pop-up heads for locations ajoining buildings or paved areas like driveways and streets. • Mark the location of each head in accordance with the spraying distance of the heads you choose. Rainbird R-50’s, a common good quality head, will spray an arc, semicircle, or full circle about 25-30 feet in diameter, so heads can b
