Underground Sprinkler System
Many people ask if an underground sprinkler system is really worth it? Yes, an underground sprinkler system will help green up your yard as well as provide you with an incredible convenience.
The keys to having a green lawn are pretty basic. You need sunlight and water. Who really has the time to chase around the lawn sprinkler attached to your garden hose? With a sprinkler system you get the benefits of:
A scheduled time of watering your grass throughout the week. You set the schedule and the sprinkler system does the rest.
You won’t be wasting water by forgetting to move the sprinkler and having water going down the drain.
Installing an Underground Sprinkler System in Your Yard
No one has to: a sprinkler system buried beneath a lawn or garden can take over the job. At the end of the watering period the heads sink into the ground.
Installing such a sprinkler system doesn’t take a lot of special skills. A simple lawn may have all its sprinkler heads on one supply line, controlled by a single shutoff valve. A yard divided into several distinct areas with different watering needs calls for a more complex system with several supply lines, each serving a single watering zone and fitted with a separate shutoff valve.
The most common types of watering zones are a sunlit front lawn that must be watered long and often; shady areas that need briefer, intermittent watering; and gardens that are watered through sprinklers with high heads.
If you use a public water system, he will need the internal diameter of your water meter in inches (the figure is usually stamped on the meter housing). For either system he should know the available water pressure in your supply lines. For manual controls, tap at a sillcock, and for an automatic system, install the controls in the basement and tap water from an inside supply pipe. Then dig the trenches, pitched away from or toward the house; run pipe and install the sprinkler heads.
