Automatic lawn watering

Every owner of a summer residence, a garden or a garden knows such a routine procedure, like watering a lawn and plants. This is quite a labor-intensive affair, which takes quite a long time. Everything becomes more complicated if the site is really large. But what if you have the opportunity to make your life easier?

What is the automatic lawn watering?

If in a nutshell, then this is the dream of every owner of a summer residence. Such a system saves money and water, in addition, it gives a much needed free time, without which it is simply impossible to have a normal rest. But it is for this purpose that a person leaves the city.

People who constantly live in suburban areas, turning temporary cottages into cozy cottages, the automatic lawn irrigation system will save a lot of time. In addition, it will give the lawn a healthy and beautiful appearance that you really want to admire.

Advantages of automatic watering

At such systems which provide watering of a lawn, it is a lot of advantages. But here it is necessary to describe only the main ones:

1. Watering will be made evenly and on all necessary technologies. A person does not participate in the process.
2. Installing equipment is very simple - you can invite experts or do your own.
3. Sector watering can also be regulated. Thus, water will not fall on the building.
4. Automatic lawn watering can be equipped with additional devices.
5. This saves you energy, reduces the consumption of electricity and water. The latter is due to a clear cycle.
6. Auto-watering can be adjusted so that watering is done more often on dry days, and during rain - less often.
7. The system can be equipped with a heating unit, which can also be adjusted to maintain the desired water temperature.

The system itself

How to make lawn watering with your own hands? A large-scale project should be carried out by a competent and trained specialist, but such an activity can well be done by an ordinary person, if he has clear instructions for work.

It is in this order and the further text will be written - in the form of step-by-step careful instructions, after which you can fully assemble the automatic irrigation system. This instruction consists of three steps.

The first step is the outline plan

It begins with the very foundations, that is, with the plan. For this there are reasons - the system that provides watering the lawn - a very large-scale project, and it requires careful planning. First you need to purchase equipment for watering your lawn. Yes, one should also think over what exactly it is necessary to buy and in what quantity. Next, you will need to make a list of actions - this makes it possible to understand how much work you are expecting, which means whether you need to attract one or more pairs of hands, etc.

It is also important to think about planning the irrigation scheme itself-for this purpose, fine-grained printing (plain drawing paper) is fine. On it, put out a schematic outline of all structures and areas located on the site. This will include buildings, paths, as well as green spaces, flower beds and so on. Naturally, it is best to begin work with the acquisition of a site - this will allow you not to damage existing structures and plants. That is, you will need to plan more and how the plants and lawn will be planted. Thus, you can make a system for watering the lawn with your own hands, and exactly as you need it.

The diagram shows the source of water, as well as the location of the pump - it is best to have such a source in the middle of the plot. This will allow evenly stretch the highway, which means that the automatic lawn irrigation system will work with the same pressure in all areas. From the pump on paper, highways, as well as their branches, are conducted. On these lines, sprinklers, that is sprinklers, are noted. They can differ in radius of action, and therefore you must first select them, and then make a diagram. On it you outline the coverage area of all sprinklers. Each group of watering heads requires a separate electrovalve.

The second step is the purchase of the necessary

After the scheme is ready, and you understand how the lawn will be irrigated in your area, you can start buying the necessary materials. For an absolute majority of systems, you need materials such as:

• Pump for water intake;
• Pipes;
• Details for the connection;
• Sprinklers;
• Pressure regulators in pipes;
• Filters;
• Electrovalves;
• The necessary tool for land digging;
• Controllers.

All of the above details are absolutely necessary. Pumping station, for example, should be carefully chosen depending on the size of the land plot - the larger it is, the more water it will take. Filters are needed to purify water from self-made wells, otherwise sprinklers, and even the pipes themselves very quickly become worthless. A pressure regulator is required for the system where the sprinklers will be used with different pressures, or the watering will be done by a drip. Controllers and solenoid valves are one of the most important parts of the system simply because they control the irrigation modes. Pipes should also be chosen carefully. They can be of several kinds - this can be consulted in the store.

Preparation and installation

What is the work of installing such a system as automatic lawn watering?

The equipment will be installed in several stages:

• pumping station;
• Laying ditches;
• The laying of pipes;
• Connection of the system to the pump;
• Installation of sprinklers;
• Installation of controllers, valves, regulators of movement of sprinklers, filters, etc .;
• Adjustment, programming of the controller and testing of the system.
• Launch.

After the work of these works, if you approach everything with sufficient care, the result is a real system for irrigation. The description is rather brief, but this is enough to understand in what order the work needs to be done.

Subtlety and nuance

There are a few simple rules that you need to follow in order for the system to work correctly and serve you long enough:

• First, you need to monitor the filters, checking their status every two weeks.
• The rest of the system also needs to be checked, but half as often.
• From time to time you will have to eliminate the subsidence of the soil.
• At the beginning of the season, the batteries need to be changed, and for winter it is generally better to remove them.
• If the system is preserved, then there should not be water.
• Electro valves are better to dismantle before the cold.
• In the same way, we have to deal with moisture and temperature sensors.

Subtleties and watering

Here are some tips:

• How often to water a lawn? Best of all every evening or every other day, and on dry days - and in the morning.
• Soil is considered to be quite wet, if water penetrated even to the depth of half a meter (you can go deep only up to thirty centimeters).
• Do not overflow water.
• Do not water the lawn with an open jet.
• During wet weather, watering can be done once a week or once every three days.