How To Install a Sprinkler System (under $400)!
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Part 1 of the irrigation series. Stay tuned for the remaining videos on timer install, backfill and seeding.
Contents of Video
0:00 - Intro
2:40 - Plan For Irrigation
3:40 - What Are Zones
4:10 - Lay out the trench
5:40 - Digging
11:58 - Water Line install
14:53 - How to glue pipe
21:45 - Connecting PVC to irrigation head
24:39 - What I’d Do Differently
27:27 - Subscribe!
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The goal of this project was to install an irrigation system underground for as cheap as I possibly could, meanwhile using quality products. I often hear in-ground irrigation systems are too expensive or too complex to do it yourself... I disagree, and this video will explain why and how to do it yourself for under $400.00!
👉🏽Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE because the next videos will be hooking up the timers & Backfill & Seeding.
I dug all of my trenches by hand, although renting a trencher is recommended due to the length and depth that was needed for this. The digging was the bulk of time it took. Laying the pipe, for me, was easy and took only a few hours (plus multiple trips to Home Depot).
**Always be sure to call before you dig. I recently had my sewer line replaced so I had already seen where any underground wires and pipes were located.
The bulk of the cost were the irrigation timers ($46.00 each). The Rainbird 5004 irrigation heads were not expensive (Sprinkler Supply Store has great deals on them). The pipe was pretty cheap as well (around $80.00). The additional costs were back flow preventers, fittings, primer and glue and the outside faucet. This was all well under $400.00.
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This is how I did my irrigation system and is NOT a how to video. Install at your own risk. - Jak na to + styl
Thanks for the video. You could cut your work time in half by using the flexible tubing and just cutting a 1 line in the lawn with your shovel as opposed to 2 parallel lines and taking up the soil.
The tube gets tucked down into the cut and you just mat the lawn back down. It's helpful if you have 2 people. 1 to lift the cut while the other feeds the tube down and you just move down the cut from there.
I also recommend doing any extensive lawn work in the early part of Fall so that the lawn can recover over the winter and be all set when Spring rolls around.
Great video with a lot of quality information! Thank you! I wish we could have seen the system is operation.
What a soundtrack man! I love watching these satisfying work-videos and this is the best set heard so far💪
Great content and advice on what you would do different. I want to install my own one day. Hitting that rock and all that gluing made me had flashbacks when I installed an inground pool by myself. Definitely need friends!
You should! And wow! An inground pool… that’s legit man!
Great video bud! A lot of work into this and it will pay off you'll see. Those $120 for the trencher are definitely worth it lol 💪🏻
I’m attempting to in stall my own sprinkler system . And I can use all the info I can get.
Without flexible tubing to connect your spray heads, you will in time be breaking the main at each head if there is every any down pressure such as a child stepping on one head - dont ask how I know :-D Always connect from main to spray head with flexible tubing
I did end up adding flex tubing to some of the heads. Trial and error, I appreciate your input.
It’s actually a lateral line! Mains are before the shutoff to the heads!
@@tretre1692 pretty sure he just means the main water line for the sprinklers. Context would dictate anyway.
Great addition to this video. Thanks ...
My Buddy did almost the exact thing but used craftsman garden hoses for the lines. His was a small yard but it worked great
This video was fantastic! Thanks Vince! You rock dude
Thanks so much buddy!! I appreciate you!
I think you did a great job as you said is under $400, if you decide to change procedure and adding up more hardware the cost will go very high. Next time start from corner instead of the middle of the yard and pop up along the house. however great job.
If any one is going to be doing this look up the willton thin line trenching spade. I used it to put my lines in the ground last year.
$200!!?!? there goes half my budget
@@mndovrkdrkmtr9951 it's definitely worth it just make sure the ground is kinda damp. Ware are you located at.
Very very helpful
Excellent, excellent video. Providing me with knowledge and just as important, a comfort level for tackling a lawn sprinkler project. Video #2, here I come! Thanks much!
Dont listen to this guy. You are going to end up paying more for a professional to come and fix it.
First, love the valuable video and the entire process a truly learning experience.
Thank you so much! Glad you learned something from it!
Great video! Trencher for the win for sure. My back couldn’t handle all that.
One hell of a trench manually done!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice. I would if mine was small area like that. I must rent, 11,000 front and back it too much to dig
Yeah, never again. I’ll rent a trencher for $200 from now on 😅
Having your utility lines marked would have been a good "what I'd do different". Especially cutting all the way across your front yard where all of them are coming into your home. :)
Great point! Always call before digging, but I had the lines marked a few months prior for a sewer line repair. Never want to hit the colorful tree roots.
That grass is nice. Coming from Texas
Thank you!
Hey my name is vince also! Great video truly helpful! I just found your channel and im definitely subsribing now!
Nice 👍
This guy looks like the young version of Doc.
We dug our own drench but now I am having a difficult time regulating the heads. To many heads? To much pressure? Heads to big? Any recommendations?
if it was me, I would not cover the glue joints until you get Pressure on the system so you could see if you have leaks or not
Great video! I have wanted to do something very similar for awhile now but boring up a sidewalk has been the deal breaker for me. By chance did you install any blow out valves for winterization purposes?
No blow out valves but I have a plan for winter time. I’ll explain in next video. 😬
Where did you installed the backflow....
Hola buenas tardes dónde puedo conseguir este tipo d aspersor
Good to see ya on CZcams ✔ Subscription is safe! Guess all those beers and bratwursts we had in kindergarten finally sell out 🤣 cant wait for more content
Hahaha! Beers and brats are the keys to life.
I'm already sweating just watching the video, lot of work, how many hours did it take from beginning to end? specially the digging , Good Job!
Professionally installed irrigation system
You want to dig deeper this way when you aerate in the fall you will not puncture your line
didn’t even show the finished product or it working.
Thats what i was wondering. Thats annoying!
Did you not read the description where it says, “Part 1 of the irrigation series. Stay tuned for the remaining videos on timer install, backfill and seeding.” 😊
on a new install like that with the glue you have it doesnt need primer. up to a certain size of pipe it says it on the bottle too
Old plumber habits, prime and glue it all. 🤷🏽♂️
Teflon tape on the sprinkler head was a mistake, also you should’ve added a few inches of lazy tube that connects your sprinkler head to your pipes because less chances at breaking your pipes and easier repair. Great video content thou.
Lazy tube is called funny pipe
Did I miss it?No video of the system working and watering the lawn?
Where is part 2? I want to do the backflow
Im cruous too . i want to see the second part and the finished results
ed bassmaster reference
Not too bad on 1.5x speed
Do you have winter where you are,,,, how do you drain the lines for winter?
We do have winter. I hook up an air compressor and blow them out. I’ll do a video on it this fall.
what type of grass is that ?
KBG/PRG mix
Do you have to get permits to install DYI irrigation system
First! 💪🏻
Yeah bc you’re the man!
Is it still working good for you I want to do this but I have a much larger yard
@@kr5289 it does. I would go with a 1” main line, add more heads closer, and make sure I wired it up with a controller tho.
@@RootedLawnCo yes those were the things I was thinking while watching the video. Thank you.
@@kr5289 check out the irrigreen videos I have. They are a little pricey but an absolutely worth it system if you’re into techy stuff. They run deals frequently.
@RootedLawnCo sure will thanks
I'd use dope instead of tape.
I can tell those who have never installed UGS. They are the ones saying "great video". Most towns/cities have a code for backflow preventer which you make no mention of. I don't understand why you used two risers at the house instead of just adding a zone valve or two. Also, why not tap into the water line entering the house rather than install a hose bib through the finished wall. Finally, what provision have you made to blow out the lines to winterize? Or do you live in an area that doesn't freeze?
TFS. Please wear goggles. Sunglasses. Please. My husband broke his leg as we were putting up a privacy fence. He was laid up for two months. I had to put on my big girl pants and keep working. I was nailing on a picket and missed the center of the nail; it fought back. It would have gone straight into my eye, but I had on glasses. Thank God! I care.😊
May friend ay watch out the video to see the tes en you not didn’t
Spelling problems my friend it is my friend at watch out the video to see the test and you did not watch it? Is this what you are saying
No need to put teflon on sprinkles!!!
yeah right! burying a hose and attaching a sprinkler head is not a sprinkler system.
Intro too long
Are you people for real with this nonsense? ridiculous
Wow I’m an irrigation tech. And just WOW….. ugh. Stick to your day job
You should NOT be giving advice on this subject. Sprinkler heads are attached directly to pvc. The first time you hit it, it's broken. Your layout is completely wrong, but because of people like you, I make tons of money fixing their misttakes. Leave this to the professionals.
$tupid DA
This is an excellent video of what not to do!😂 not 1 single thing was done correctly. This is an absolute butch job.
They have special connectors for the sprinkler heads because we know 90's will never give you a straight head😂
I could go on and on, but it would be way too much writing!
How do you make a youtube video of a diy sprinkler system but obviously never watched a youtube video on how to do a sprinkler system the right way😂😂
WOW!