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My wife would like me to set up something to water her flower beds / pots (pots are in the flower beds).
There are 5 flower beds I'm trying to water - a 12' 1/4 circle, two that are 3x15' and two that are 3x30'. Thinking of using a 12' 1/4 circle for the one flower bed (1.30 gpm), 2 x end side strip spray (0.49gpm each) and 2 x side strip spray (1.21gpm each) - for a total of 4.7gpm.
My thought is to run poly irrigation tubing from my house spigot / faucet and run it manually. (I would use an anti siphon valve and a short ~ 2' piece of regular yard hose to connect the poly tubing to the faucet.)
I have 3/4" copper service coming into my house and it T's to my water softener (for inside water) and directly to the outside faucet. The water meter is also 3/4" copper.
The layout would look like:
faucet ----- 37' ----- "T" splitter
going left out of splitter |----- 30' ----- o -------- 40' -------- o --- 9' --- o
going right out of splitter |----- 29' ----- o ---------34'--------- o
Hopefully the formatting turns out : ) (ok formatting didn't work out - redoing it) Basically, 37' of tube to a "T" splitter - then on one run 30' more to the first sprinkler then 40' to the second one then 9' to the last one. On the second run 29' off the "T" to the sprinkler head and then 34' to the last one.
Each of the sprinkler heads will be elevated 36" so it will water the flowers and the flower pots in each of the gardens.
I don't know what my pressure is coming out of the faucet nor do I know the gpm. The gpm I can try measuring with a 5 gallon bucket if needed. We seem to have excellent water pressure.
I'm guessing that the sprinkler heads I choose use so little water that I'm hopeful I can run them all as one "zone." I've read about sizing the tubing, velocity, pressure loss, friction, pipe knocking, pipe scrubbing, etc. - I'm very confused, can't figure out the calculations and am now nervous I might wreck my home's plumbing by messing around with this project.
Can I use 1" poly irrigation tubing for all ~ 180' needed?
Any other thoughts?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
There are 5 flower beds I'm trying to water - a 12' 1/4 circle, two that are 3x15' and two that are 3x30'. Thinking of using a 12' 1/4 circle for the one flower bed (1.30 gpm), 2 x end side strip spray (0.49gpm each) and 2 x side strip spray (1.21gpm each) - for a total of 4.7gpm.
My thought is to run poly irrigation tubing from my house spigot / faucet and run it manually. (I would use an anti siphon valve and a short ~ 2' piece of regular yard hose to connect the poly tubing to the faucet.)
I have 3/4" copper service coming into my house and it T's to my water softener (for inside water) and directly to the outside faucet. The water meter is also 3/4" copper.
The layout would look like:
faucet ----- 37' ----- "T" splitter
going left out of splitter |----- 30' ----- o -------- 40' -------- o --- 9' --- o
going right out of splitter |----- 29' ----- o ---------34'--------- o
Hopefully the formatting turns out : ) (ok formatting didn't work out - redoing it) Basically, 37' of tube to a "T" splitter - then on one run 30' more to the first sprinkler then 40' to the second one then 9' to the last one. On the second run 29' off the "T" to the sprinkler head and then 34' to the last one.
Each of the sprinkler heads will be elevated 36" so it will water the flowers and the flower pots in each of the gardens.
I don't know what my pressure is coming out of the faucet nor do I know the gpm. The gpm I can try measuring with a 5 gallon bucket if needed. We seem to have excellent water pressure.
I'm guessing that the sprinkler heads I choose use so little water that I'm hopeful I can run them all as one "zone." I've read about sizing the tubing, velocity, pressure loss, friction, pipe knocking, pipe scrubbing, etc. - I'm very confused, can't figure out the calculations and am now nervous I might wreck my home's plumbing by messing around with this project.
Can I use 1" poly irrigation tubing for all ~ 180' needed?
Any other thoughts?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!