Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:11 pm
#47389
More progress... tore out the useless soaker hoses & repalced with a drip system, was quite impressed with how easy it was to set it up.
Including time to put in the pressure reducer/filter, dig the trenches, pressure testing & make a couple of splices in the recycled main hose, , flushing, staking it out, secure it in place, install the emitters & add hose to most where the drips werent landing well - less than 2 hours. Too bad it was entirely spent hunched over - thank goodness for hot tubs!
Surprisingly cost effective too...
-rain bird 30 psi reducer / filter combo - $26
-two 3/4" - 1/2" pex fittings - $2
-dual zone timer - $40
-garden hose - pex - shutoff tap - $8
-two garden hose - 3/4" NPT adapters & clamps - $10
-two 3/4" NPT - 1/2" bards - $2
-two 1/2" plugs - $4 (these were the only parts that seemed far too expensive really)
-three 1/2" - 1/2" barbed menders & clamps - $9
-about 200' of recycled 1/2" hose (it used to be part of the solar pool heater at my parents old house) - free (booyah!)
-two bags of rain bird 1 gph emitters - $32
Less than $150
Spring has even arrived to boot (i actually got a sunburn!)
Next weekend's project is to build a box over the control & exposed PEX tubing (it doesnt do well in sunlight apparently) & to do a little more thinning out of the weakest plants (took out two more yesterday). The rest all look to be healthy, but, in the section where the big boys are growing we planted three times as many as we have room for with the intention of thinning.
Including time to put in the pressure reducer/filter, dig the trenches, pressure testing & make a couple of splices in the recycled main hose, , flushing, staking it out, secure it in place, install the emitters & add hose to most where the drips werent landing well - less than 2 hours. Too bad it was entirely spent hunched over - thank goodness for hot tubs!
Surprisingly cost effective too...
-rain bird 30 psi reducer / filter combo - $26
-two 3/4" - 1/2" pex fittings - $2
-dual zone timer - $40
-garden hose - pex - shutoff tap - $8
-two garden hose - 3/4" NPT adapters & clamps - $10
-two 3/4" NPT - 1/2" bards - $2
-two 1/2" plugs - $4 (these were the only parts that seemed far too expensive really)
-three 1/2" - 1/2" barbed menders & clamps - $9
-about 200' of recycled 1/2" hose (it used to be part of the solar pool heater at my parents old house) - free (booyah!)
-two bags of rain bird 1 gph emitters - $32
Less than $150
Spring has even arrived to boot (i actually got a sunburn!)
Next weekend's project is to build a box over the control & exposed PEX tubing (it doesnt do well in sunlight apparently) & to do a little more thinning out of the weakest plants (took out two more yesterday). The rest all look to be healthy, but, in the section where the big boys are growing we planted three times as many as we have room for with the intention of thinning.