How to Install Garden Irrigation _ Mitre 10 Easy As DIY

Installing your own irrigation system is easy and it takes all the hassle out of water in your garden .

Here's how to get started .

You'll need some graph paper , a measuring tape , a nine liter bucket and the easy as PDF guide from our website to help with calculations and materials .

Now , the first thing you're gonna need to do is check your water pressure .

Really simple task .

Grab yourself a standard nine liter bucket and time .

How long it takes to fill it ?

The really important part here is to make sure your tap is on full blast before you start the timer .

Great .

So that's about 19 seconds to work out our L PM or liters per minute .

We multiply the nine liter bucket by 60 seconds , which equals 540 .

Then divide that by the time it took to fill which was 19 .

So 540 divided by 19 equals 28.4 liters per minute .

This helps us work out how many lines and sprayers our systems can handle right .

So next , we're going to map out the garden to scale .

Really important to note where the water source is and any of the other obstacles in the garden to work around for the irrigation .

Take your time with us .

It does need to be really accurate in this garden .

We'll be running water to the four beds , two pots and the lawn .

And even though it's a small area , the same principles apply , now , there's a range of different parts you can use to create your irrigation system .

First up , we've got the pop-up sprayers really great for use in lawns and they come in a range of different spray patterns .

You got sprayers great for garden beds and things like that can be directional or a 3 60 spray .

You got little dripper , great for garden pots and containers .

Good for getting a lot of soaking down through , down to the roots , elbows and tea bars for connecting the whole system up and then your main pipelines your 19 mil 13 mil and your four mil pipes .

Now your next step is to work out how many of each component you need for your garden .

So grab your drawing your easy as guide and get planning .

I'm gonna run one line for the lawn with a couple of pop-ups and a separate line on a tea bar for the beds and pots with a combination of sprayers and driers .

You wanna aim for the least nozzles as possible with the correct spray patterns which will save water and money use 19 ML pipe for lawns , 13 mil pipe for your beds and four mil pipe for any lines feeding off from those .

So now that our plan is sorted , we need to check that this 28.4 liter per minute water source can handle all these nozzles .

So grab your guide and start adding them up for my bids .

I have three sprayers and each of them uses 30.75 liters per minute .

You can find this info on the back of the pack .

So 0.75 times three equals 2.25 plus five driers at 0.55 and a raise dripper at 0.6 making the total for this line 5.6 L PM .

And for the lawn , my 2 70 degree pop up runs 7.5 liters per minute and the 3 60 uses 10 .

So that's 17.5 all up which makes these lines all well under the 28.4 L PM flow rate from my tap .

So we're good to go , right .

So it's time to get started .

Now , I fitted our three way adapter onto the tap here .

So first up , you're gonna need to get a tap to pipe connector for the 13 mil pipes to make sure it's got the 13 mil adapter on there right next up .

Basically , you're gonna measure out our first length of pipe which will run from the tap to the ground .

Get a rough gauge of how long that's gonna need to be , give yourself a little bit extra .

So you can always cut it off afterwards .

So that looks good .

You can just keep that mark and then get a nice solid surface behind you and just cut that pipe .

Give you 13 M G clamp slide that over first , twist that on until it's all the way out .

Slide up the clamp .

Every joint will need the support of one of these clamps which will keep things water tight cool .

So we're ready to put in our first connector .

Now , check if there's any excess on here .

Just uses of teas to trim it off .

Now , what we're gonna use is a 90 degree elbow .

It's gonna help us come along the ground here and it's gonna mean we're not gonna have any kinks in our hose .

So grab another 13 mil little clamp , put that on first , then pop the connector in and just tighten it up .

Right .

First stage done .

We're gonna attach our next length of pipe , cut that off .

I see then and just tighten it up and we're gonna get into our tea bar .

Really simple .

Same process here .

Now , this can be a little bit stiff .

You can put it in some warm water to help soften up the plastic .

So now our tea bar that we've just put on here is gonna help us split the line into our two different beds .

Next , we're just gonna use this pipe measure how much we need to get along and then use 90 degree elbows again to come up and into our beds .

Now , we've got that all set up just gonna secure our lines to the bed and to the ground using these little 13 M saddle clamps and some stakes , secure the lines as you go .

It keeps things tidy and easy to work with .

Then I'll feed a couple of lengths of pipe under the deck to the far beds and connect them up .

Now , important before we put any stopper or sprayers on just to run water through the system .

It's just gonna make sure there's no bugs or any dirt or anything like that in the pipe .

Now , do this before you make the pipe hard to get to .

So you can sort out any blockages , right .

So now lastly , just gonna put our little end stopper on the end , make sure that's where we want it to be .

Just slice it off again with a little ratchet , clamp on first , just pop that on and the line's done , right ?

So we're pretty much ready for our first sprayer .

Now , I've chosen this one .

It's a little 3 60 degree sprayer and I know it's gonna cover this whole bed .

There are lots of different ones to choose from .

So just check on the back of the packet .

Now , we're gonna use our multi tool here .

It's got a little point on the end just to prick into our pipe and then simply screw in the sprayers .

Make sure here not to get any dirt anywhere near the little join as well and just twist that on , just make sure it's nice and tight and gets a good seal .

So for our next bed , we're gonna do the same thing again with another 360 degree sprayer .

Just this time , we're gonna put on a 200 ml riser stab our hole .

But you go one in this bed again and it just screws onto the top .

Nice and easy .

Let me just pop that into the pipe and once that's in , just secure it with a little riser pipe stake , it helps it stay up nice and straight .

So for my pots , what I'm gonna do is run some of this four mil pipe up to them with some dripper on the end .

So it's just the same process again , just pop a hole in the side .

I've got one of these little four millimeter joiners and that'll slot into the back of your multi tool like that .

And that'll just help you screw it in .

Now , just attach a little four mil tubing that just screws on .

It's gonna run it out so that we know we've got enough to get up into our pot here .

Give it a little bit of extra .

I'm gonna just cut that off .

And what we've got here is a little steak with a dripper on the end of it really clever , just pop it onto the end and just set that in the pot just like that .

Next , we'll crack into the lawn .

Start by digging a trench about 200 mil deep along the line of pipe .

Keep it in tidy chunks to pop straight back in when you're done .

Right .

So that's our trench all dug .

Next thing we're gonna do is just run this 19 mil line over to our lawn and cut that off , pop it under this timber edging we've got here again , just same with the little ratchet , clamps and our last elbow , make sure it's nice and tight .

Last part of her elbow there just feed that along the length of our trench and don't forget to run water through it again to clear it .

So the first pop up we're gonna use here is a 2 70 degree sprayer .

That's because we've got some stones over here and we're trying to conserve water .

So we're only gonna end up with water on the lawn now to put one of these in .

It's the same sort of tea bar as we used before , but this one's got a thread on the top of it and that just goes into the base of our pop up sprayer .

Just twist that on in the same principle as before .

Cut this pipe and then we'll just attach on both sides , clamp on first spray it in and clamp it up sam again on the other side , right .

So that's our first pop up done .

I'll set it down on the ground and make sure that this is just above ground level .

So the lawnmower just avoids it and then the water pressure will pop the little sprinkler up , then just repeat the process to the end of the line and pop a cap on the end to finish up next , backfill your trench and tidy up any areas you dug up along the way .

Lastly turn on the tap to check your handiwork , adjust any nozzles to make sure they're covering the right areas and it's job done to make things even easier .

You can install a timer .

There's a huge range to choose from in store .

So go in and choose the one that's best for you .

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