Watering is an important part of maintaining a landscape in the best condition, and this can be made easy with a properly designed irrigation system installation. Plants require the right amount of water for their best health and it has to be neither too much nor too little. You can get irrigation systems that water a particular area at well defined times automatically so that you never have to worry about your garden even if you have gone out on a vacation.
The main purpose behind the installation of an irrigation system in landscapes is to keep all plants and lawns well nourished at all times of the year, and this system must be able to adjust to different needs during different seasons. It is definitely a more efficient method than using a hose to water your plants and lawn, which is quite a time consuming and often back-breaking work. You can never be sure whether you have watered the plants correctly, and there is always a tendency to over water, which can lead to inflated water bills. Watering with a hose causes water to seep into the soil and this can cause leaching of nutrients. Soil can also get compacted and affect aeration of the soil that is equally necessary for their good health. Irrigation systems can be designed to provide just the right amount of water to each plant and avoid all these problems.
Before any work on irrigation system installation is undertaken it is necessary to make a proper plan of all the plants and areas in your garden that need watering. The system supplier will then make a proper network that can reach all the parts of the garden, and also the requirements of water for each zone, that they will divide the entire plot into. An irrigation system needs to have a capacity to deliver pressures of 35 pounds per square inch and a water flow of 10 to 13 gallons per minute.
The installation of the system will need trenches for laying the pipes and any control cables. A proper source of water must be identified and connected to the system. It can be a good idea to have markers to identify the location of the pipes and cables, in case any leakage develops or any other maintenance needs to be carried out. Some installers will also have pipe pulling equipment that enables them to install the pipes without trenches, and this can be very useful for existing landscapes that you do not want to disturb. It is also possible to fully automate irrigation systems and program them to work for fixed periods in different zones at various times.
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