Each owner of a summer cottage, a garden orThe garden is familiar with such a routine procedure as watering the lawn and plants. This is quite a time-consuming task, 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, it's everyone's dreamowner of the suburban area. Such a system saves money and water, in addition, it provides much needed free time, without which it is simply impossible to get a normal rest. But it is for this purpose that a person leaves the city.
People who live permanently in the countrysites, turning temporary houses into cozy cottages, the system of automatic lawn watering will save a lot of time. In addition, it will give the lawn a healthy and beautiful appearance, which really wants 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:
- Watering will be carried out evenly and in all necessary technologies. A person does not participate in the process.
- Installing equipment is very simple - you can invite experts or do your own.
- Sector watering can also be regulated. Thus, water will not fall on the building.
- Automatic lawn watering can be equipped with additional devices.
- This saves you energy, reduces the consumption of electricity and water. The latter is due to a clear cycle.
- Auto-watering can be adjusted so that watering is done more often on dry days, and during rain - less often.
- The system can be equipped with a heating unit, which can also be adjusted to maintain the desired water temperature.
The system own hands
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 that the furthertext - in the form of step-by-step thorough instructions, after doing that, you can quite easily 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 the 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 gives you an opportunity 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 scheme itselfirrigation - for this purpose is fine with graph paper (conventional drawing paper). On it, put out a schematic outline of all the 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, it will be necessary to plan more and how 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.
A water source is indicated on the diagram, andlocation of the pump - it is best to have such a source in the middle of the site. This will allow to stretch the lines evenly, which means that the system of automatic lawn watering 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 may differ in the radius of the action, so 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 howwill be watering the lawn 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 items are absolutely necessary.The pump station, for example, needs to 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 types - 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;
- stacking of pipes;
- connection of the system to the pump;
- installation of sprinklers;
- installation of controllers, valves, regulators of movement of sprinklers, filters, etc .;
- setting up, programming the controller and testing the system.
- launch.
After the production of these works, if you approachall with sufficient care, as a result you get a real system for watering. The description is pretty brief, but it's enough to understand in what order it is necessary to produce works.
Subtlety and nuance
There are some 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 will be 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 humidity and temperature sensors.
Subtlety and watering
Here are some tips:
- How often to water a lawn? Best of all every evening or every other day, and in droughty days - and in the morning.
- Soil is considered to be quite damp, 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 open the lawn with an open jet.
- During wet weather, watering can be done once a week or once in three days.
