Tutorials 109: How to Install a Sprinkler System on Your Lawn

Sprinkler at home helps in making your yard look greener. Installing it in your house is not a bad idea; in fact, it is a good one. Having it set up in your yard needs a lot of study and research. You just don’t have to rush things like many other installation processes at your house. Things to remember are the sprinkler should have an equal sharing of water that it sprinkles with the area it is working on. You need to analyze where you can establish it, effects of the elements, the area where it is proposed to be set up and the resources needed for the project to move on. Remember always not to conduct a project beyond your reach. Here are some tips on how to install a sprinkler system right into your lawn.

Design a plan for the installation of the sprinkler system, the target of why you should put it there, the landscape and the right sprinkler system in your proposed lawn and the blue print of the design. In your design or the blue print of the project state the necessary things like the different kinds of plants that are near the system or the needed plants that should be installed to add beauty in your sprinkler. Plants differ in their needs regarding water; the one who needs water the most should be the one who gets much water and same with the one who needs less water. The key here is the perfect installation of the system. In your design specify where you will get your source of water. You can either choose to plumb directly the water or you can stock water and use it as a source. Choose what suits you well.

You should also have a circuitry of sprinklers that performs in different areas of your lawn. You will also have to state this in your design so that you can follow it up whenever you encountered a problem. Remember that different areas of your lawn have different effects with respect to the weather, like for example the one that are directly hit by the sun dries up quickly and differs from the one with the shaded area. You need to focus on where you will put too much water and where you will supply less.

After assessing the area you need to choose what type of sprinkler head you are going to use. By this time you have already distinguished the area and plant you area going to irrigate. The best way to set up good sprinkler systems is to make the range of the sprinkled water nearly reach the neighboring sprinkled water. You will also consider what will be the shape of the sprinkled water as you can choose regarding the way you want. Lastly, verify the pressure you want in your sprinkler system to produce. If you have no idea about this you can ask an expert on how to set up the right pressure on the system.