When you exerted enough pressure with your digging tool, you might notice a surge of pressure that releases a lot of moisture. She might tell you that's never happened before, but don't worry about that.
It’s going to look amazing! About 3 weeks ago I did this same for my new dental office. I ran 1250 ft of poly pipe and put in 49 sprinklers. Once you turn them on and can watch all your hard work running it’s a pretty incredible feeling! Props to you my friend!
I did an entire irrigation system for my house this summer. Dug all 800 plus feet for the zones by hand. No machine. I even moved the source of the artesian well pipe and installed a sub panel and 50 feet of conduit before I even wired timer, start relay, pump, and solenoid valves for the three zones. All on the summer humidity and heat.
Brings back memories of almost 3 years ago this July. Installed 350 feet of 2” PVC with 11 heads right down the middle of my corner lot. Pump water off of the lake in my backyard. I went with the sod cutter prior to trenching. Also, had to trench 75’ to the lake to get power to the irrigation pumps. Oh the treasures I found from construction 10 years prior. Best feeling seeing the water fly for the first time. Have mine set up with a Kasa smart plug and contactor that turns the pump on and all 11 heads, 17k sqft at once. Toughest DIY project I ever did.
I’m planning to install my own irrigation, including pulling water from a lake. Would you mind providing any resources you found helpful? Thanks! Trying to find a good resource on necessary pumps, etc. for a lake water source.
I did my own 2 years ago. I used 150psi poly pipe. Its way better than working with pvc. Especially if you have lots of clay in your soil. I rototilled my lawn and leveled it before I installed it. Seeing you tearing up that great lawn is hard to watch! Welcome to the good life! Ha
15:15 I laid a rainwater drain pipe under the sidewalk by using a piece of (75mm) pvc pipe and a water hose on full blast inside the pvc pipe pushed up to its leading edge. The water acted like a drill against the dirt. All the mud washed out back along the pipe. I just pushed the pipe and twisted it little by little until it was under the sidewalk. My friend's idea but I can vouch for it, it worked a treat.
I’ve done 3 full installs and a bunch of renovations. Put a system in my current house last spring, about 800ft of pipe. Should have asked for help, it was a physical beat down. Well worth it, I love to sit out after a good mow and watch it run. With the app based controller, I’m able to adjust it from my deployed location in the Middle East.
Good work man. I did the same exact install but with Orbit rotors and Rainird RVAN’s. Trenched everything as well. Now, I can control all 5 zones off of my phone. So much work but so rewarding. Now, it’s the greenest lawn on the block while everyone else’s is burnt to a crisp.
Awesome, I did my system by hand, 23 heads...was a labor of love...so happy to have it done now though....you see that the lines where you trenched will get weeds but also the grasss will be the greenest on the trenches..Gonna be great when its all done
Jimmy Lewis yes! When I was watching him stick it in cold I said nooooo! Mini torch for the win. You get better every time you “lay pipe” and learn something new 😂
The Lawn Whisperer you sure do! Btw I didn’t know you lived in Indiana too! I’m not to far from you bro. On a side note what attachment did you get for Your flowzone. Picked one up yesterday. It’s 3:16 am right now and I’m up spraying haha
I just installed a system myself about 2 weeks ago. I rented a vibratory plow and pulled the pipe through. It still requires digging to install the T’s between the pipes along with the heads. I felt your excitement! I’ve got my seed down and I’m loving it!
Nice lawn and I feel your pain digging up your lawn! I did the same late last summer because like you, I was tired of getting up at 4am to position sprinklers. Then I got a timer to attach to my outdoor water spigot, to alleviate some of the early morning risings. But I said to heck with all that and wanted a full automatic irrigation system, sprinkler heads, back flow preventer, control box (Hydrawise by Hunter) , yada, yada yada! But I opted for Blu-lock, no glue just push together fittings. Good Job!
The trick to going under the sidewalk is to do it with a garden hose on a pvc pipe. It softens the dirt and bores a hole as you work it with a little patience.
"If life were all about laying pipe . . . " you could have stopped right there and a nation of men would have instantly liked and subscribed. Beyond that, your admission that you, personally aren't very good at it was both stunning and brave. The fact that you have a truly beautiful lawn in spite of your admitted manly deficiency is inspiring, as is your courage to persevere anyway, knowing the holes in your game. In all seriousness, your lawn looks awesome and it hurt to watch it get torn up, but the tips and laughs I got from watching you do it made it all worthwhile for me. Great video. I'll be subscribing. Thanks!
Awesome video man! I did ours about 5 years ago and never regretted it. I added a pneumatic fitting at our valve box so I could attach my air compressor to it and blow all the water out at the beginning of winter. Worked pretty well and was super easy to do. It was such a gratifying project.
The ball valve that shuts down all the sprinkler system could’ve been installed horizontally so it’s easy to shut off and on, also it would’ve saved you the money you spent on the 14x19 green box. Round one would’ve been enough. I love your video! You did an amazing job brother.
Great job my friend. I commend you for doing it yourself. I reside in Northern VA. Got my irrigation system installed Aug 2019, in the middle of a super hot and dry Summer. What helped my lawn heal was watering each zone for 10 minutes per day, for 10 ten days in a row. By the time I over seeded the following month, the lawn had only a few areas that indicated where the pipe was trenched. By the middle of October after the new grass had been mowed for the third time, my lawn was as good as new. No need to worry, it’s worth the hard work you have put in...
It’s always interesting seeing how others install systems. The way we do it at my company is poly pipe not PVC and for the back flow we just have it plumbed from the utility room, or we take the spigot and extend the copper and run the back flow off that stub and put the spigot off the back flow of the copper was plumbed correctly. Enjoyed your video tho! Good work!
@@TheLawnWhisperer maybe I can pay for your airline ticket to come help me install my own. I also need a drainage system in my backyard & the builder didn’t put in swales for water to drain out of my lawn.
An excellent video! I think that it is essential installing the pipe showing its information, I mean letters up; that way, you can see the kind of pipe used and how many psi can tolerate the system. Thank you.
My Rachio just arrived in mail today and will be installing it tomorrow. I have the same Hunter PGP rotors and will be swapping a few of them this weekend with I-20 six inch risers. I cut my TTTF at 4 inches. In some areas of my lawn, the 4 inch PGP's can't really get over the top of my grass and it throws the spray off.
When I had my system put in they had a machine that would pull the pipe under the ground and only made a slight scarring where they pulled the piping. They was done in like 4 hours. The machine you are using is really brutal on the lawn. I have 9 zones and 36 heads.
I felt your pain, it was tuff seeing a beautiful lawn ruffed up! To avoid that I hired a company during the dormant grass season, that was 5/6 years ago, the only regret was not getting one sooner. I feel this sprinkler and replacing all the windows were the best improvements we have made while living here.
So glad to have been able to see that process. Nicely done, and thanks for uploading. Heartwarming when you were walking around with your beautiful baby. I was smiling like crazy. What a little sweetheart :):)
Wait till next year when you put the first stake through a line or a head breaks... the best part of a sprinkler system is digging something up each year.
They have Timers for that JS! :) I don't get up anymore I just use my timer and set it for how long and what time, Plus it rains so much here anyways! I did want one but I don't wanna mess my lawn up Lol, God bless you for doing it
If you do the project yourself without a trenching machine it can be done, but it's very labor intensive and takes months. I've put in three systems in three different homes without heavy equipment. I start by installing the vacuums breaker valve and manifold boxes near the house. I temporarily connect spare zones that I can connect hoses to some of the valves in the manifold boxes. That way I could setup three different sets of hoses and sprinklers to irrigate the areas that had not being completed during the construction process. My third sprinkler system that I installed is actually two different 12 zone systems. I have a total of 24 zones. Of the 24 zones, there are 6 zones that are spare zones on different manifolds, that I can hook up hoses for seasonal garden areas for additional irrigation, or future expansion of the sprinkler systems. Each of the two systems has it's own vacuum breaker valve on each side of the house. Each 12 zone system has three manifold valve boxes. Each manifold valve box has four electric valves. One inch pipe feeds the water to the vacuums breaker valves from the water distribution pipes near the water meter in the basement of the house. I have two 12 zone controllers to operate the two systems. My system is probably much larger than most residential sprinkler systems. I installed one zone at a time. I use a large, old kitchen knife to cut sections of the sod and fold them over. I then manually dug out the dirt with very small gardening tools, including a flat wrecking bar to loosen the soil. The soil is temporarily hauled away and stored in a pile that is not laying on the grass. Then the PVC pipes and connectors are installed in the zone trench from the manifold box to the heads. After each zone is completed, the dirt is returned to the trench, a little compost is added to liven up the sod that may have been folded over for several days. The sod is place on top of the thin layer of compost. Occasionally, I would run into rocks that were in the way of my trenches. The rocks would have to be dug out of the ground. The rocks were usually up to 6 inches in diameter, but the largest rock was about 2 feet in diameter. The rocks were removed by digging and prying with my two 6 foot very heavy duty metal wrecking bars. One of my former homes had clay soil, which makes the digging dramatically more difficult. The other homes were loam soil, which makes the digging much easier. I use the thicker PVC in the system, and I connect the heads directly to the 3/4" risers from the 1" PVC pipes. I'm not sure why you would need the flexible pipe to connect the sprinkler heads. I have 3 heads per zone, so I can get a lot of water pressure out of each head. I screw down the set screws in each head to diffuse the water, which reduces the water throw distance, but dramatically improves the water coverage. It took me several months, after workdays and on weekends to complete the sprinkler systems for each home I've lived at over the years. It's a tremendous amount of manual labor to do the job without heavy equipment, or destroying the yard, but it is possible to do. It saved a huge amount of money for my two 12 zone systems, but it consumed a huge amount of my free time to do the installation for each home. The cost for my system was only the parts, plus many hundreds of hours of my free time. If you haven't done so already, you might also do a video about blowing out your sprinkler system with compressed air. Every year, you have to be very careful to throughly blow out your sprinkler system before the weather gets too cold, if you live in a cold climate that gets below 32 degrees for long time periods. Frozen water in system system will destroy your sprinkler system.
Make sure you get the wifi rainbird then you can set it and forget it or turn it on whenever you want. I upgraded mine last year and its awsome!! Have fun!!
trenching in PVC pipe is such an old-school way of installing a system. When the company I work for installs a system, we pull in poly pipe. It makes way less of a mess installing and is much easier to service in the future.
PVC is "Old school"...? Poly pipe was old school 20 years ago... In the commercial irrigation industry, we call stuff like poly pipe "Home owner crap". It's one of the harshest insults you can say to an irrigator. Residential irrigators are typically the half-ass guys that mostly mow lawns but try to do irrigation on the side.
Wireless valve controller will save future headaches with broken wires and/or controller. Hunter makes a good one that you can operate from your phone, though it is not cheap.
Bloomington! My old home. I found using a power washer needle nozzle to cut a trench best. Slices thru dirt. Throws mud but it washes in fast. Small hole.
Laying pipe....Hahahahaha. Great video brother. It was tough to watch through teary eyes though. Lol. That beautiful lawn. Can’t wait to see the rest of the process
That’s how most people do it, I wanted them by each zone for two reasons: it saves pipe and I can manually turn each on to check for leaks and working etc. just a personal preference. Most people do put them all in one box though 👍
Thanks for the video. I have seen pvc and the flex hose laid across the lawn. Why did you use pvc? Code? Preference? Quality? How deep did you go? Also, by doing a “T” off of the main water line coming into the house, aren’t you bypassing your water meter?
Awesome job if you don’t mind me asking but how much did everything cost,we are getting estimates for an irrigation system and the first estimate was 5800.00 😩with a 5 year warranty they come and winterize the whole system since we live in Buffalo NY.
The flex pipe allows it to flex up and down incase something heavy drives over it. If the sprinkler is sitting directly on the pvc pipe and something heavy goes over it it could crack and break
It's exciting to see how easy it is to plan this out. I've been wanting to try an install on my lawn and been dreading it, but this helps. Obviously the labor is still not exciting, but I knew that was going to suck anyway.
Honestly the worst part is backfilling all the dirt into the trenches. And it sucked worse for me because it rained that night after I finished install before I could backfill so all the dirt was hard and compacted
You're telling me that those idiots took that machine on your beautiful lawn AND trenched through your grass? Nope. I would have used a sod cutter for the trench line and plywood for the tracks. 3 pieces on each turn to count for tail swing. But I love your videos and appreciate them!
Nice work Pipe Layer ...... “no more waking up at 3am to water” ..... I’m surprised Mrs Whisper hasn’t stopped the “Pipe Laying” until the door is finally removed from the driveway! Nice Work Buddy ;)
So i have three valves that i need to connect to the sprinkler programmer but one valve is in the front yard which is quite aways from the box. The other valves are behind the box but I'm confused on how to connect the common wire to all three valves. Would I have to cut it? Run two common wires?
Laying pipe” is the easy part. Just need rhythm, Fast or slow or combo. Either way get the job done. 🤣 Reminds me of last year on my 7,500sf reno of the front/side. Had my local sprinkler company that I work with on my jobs trench the bare soil, then had my bro (IU grad) help lay the pipe and connect heads. Then test and backfill. Graded and seeded. It was a nice Saturday!!
Very informative video! I've been thinking about doing one myself for a year now but my biggest hesitation is the trenching. I'd prefer to use a vibrating plow blade trencher, you make reference to it at 7:08 but the area I live is very rocky (middle TN) so I'm not sure how those things perform with that. 2 questions: did you encounter any big obstacles (rocks) during your trench digging with that big trencher you used and if so, did that trencher just plowed through it? And, question 2 is: I have a skinnier strip of lawn between the road and the sidewalk (3 feet), it runs for about 50 feet from end to end (corner lot), to save on digging and adding additional zones I was considering just placing those heads so it would water that strip section and reach over the sidewalk across the other side. I think you have a similar approach, couldn't tell very well from the video, but do you find too much water being wasted by watering the sidewalk and would you have done anything different on that setup?
Too late for your project so this suggestion is for those still learning through you. When marking out project consider landscape lighting. Can easily drop wire into trench before you backfill.
What is the distance between heads (11-12 paces)? Also is the main line at the house 1" or 3/4" and does that go to your irrigation main line, which is either 1" or 3/4"? My main line is 3/4", but and wondering if I should go from 3/4" to 1" irrigation.
Laying pipe always seems easier in the dark, especially when working around a thick bush.
Especially if your tools aren’t covered by the plastic packaging and you can really feel the tools underground and digging around
Lmao
When you exerted enough pressure with your digging tool, you might notice a surge of pressure that releases a lot of moisture. She might tell you that's never happened before, but don't worry about that.
Leave it to a man to find a hole in the dark
Solid joke! Love It.
When I bought our house 2 years ago, the irrigation alone was a huge selling point. 😂 Welcome to a much easier life!
It’s going to look amazing! About 3 weeks ago I did this same for my new dental office. I ran 1250 ft of poly pipe and put in 49 sprinklers. Once you turn them on and can watch all your hard work running it’s a pretty incredible feeling! Props to you my friend!
As a professional utility locator, thank you for telling people to call 811.
811 is definitely a lifesaver.. Ive seen some companies hit a fiber optic and that is probably the worst thing you can do.
Yup good call on that. Gotta love when a bore team doesn't wait for marks and scrapes a 12 inch transmission gas line.
I did an entire irrigation system for my house this summer. Dug all 800 plus feet for the zones by hand. No machine. I even moved the source of the artesian well pipe and installed a sub panel and 50 feet of conduit before I even wired timer, start relay, pump, and solenoid valves for the three zones. All on the summer humidity and heat.
Brings back memories of almost 3 years ago this July.
Installed 350 feet of 2” PVC with 11 heads right down the middle of my corner lot. Pump water off of the lake in my backyard.
I went with the sod cutter prior to trenching. Also, had to trench 75’ to the lake to get power to the irrigation pumps. Oh the treasures I found from construction 10 years prior.
Best feeling seeing the water fly for the first time.
Have mine set up with a Kasa smart plug and contactor that turns the pump on and all 11 heads, 17k sqft at once.
Toughest DIY project I ever did.
I’m planning to install my own irrigation, including pulling water from a lake. Would you mind providing any resources you found helpful? Thanks! Trying to find a good resource on necessary pumps, etc. for a lake water source.
I did my own 2 years ago. I used 150psi poly pipe. Its way better than working with pvc. Especially if you have lots of clay in your soil. I rototilled my lawn and leveled it before I installed it. Seeing you tearing up that great lawn is hard to watch! Welcome to the good life! Ha
15:15 I laid a rainwater drain pipe under the sidewalk by using a piece of (75mm) pvc pipe and a water hose on full blast inside the pvc pipe pushed up to its leading edge. The water acted like a drill against the dirt. All the mud washed out back along the pipe. I just pushed the pipe and twisted it little by little until it was under the sidewalk. My friend's idea but I can vouch for it, it worked a treat.
I’ve done 3 full installs and a bunch of renovations. Put a system in my current house last spring, about 800ft of pipe. Should have asked for help, it was a physical beat down. Well worth it, I love to sit out after a good mow and watch it run. With the app based controller, I’m able to adjust it from my deployed location in the Middle East.
Thank you for your service!
Good work man. I did the same exact install but with Orbit rotors and Rainird RVAN’s. Trenched everything as well. Now, I can control all 5 zones off of my phone. So much work but so rewarding. Now, it’s the greenest lawn on the block while everyone else’s is burnt to a crisp.
Awesome! I'm still trying to get mine back. I knew it would be a struggle growing new grass when it's this hot, but I can fix the rest this fall 👍
Man, I'm jealous! That is going to be nice. No more dragging the hose around the yard. Nice job.
Awesome, I did my system by hand, 23 heads...was a labor of love...so happy to have it done now though....you see that the lines where you trenched will get weeds but also the grasss will be the greenest on the trenches..Gonna be great when its all done
NOICE!!! Pro tip: When connecting funny pipe, heat up the end with a small blow torch to soften it up. Will connect much easier with much less effort.
Jimmy Lewis yes! When I was watching him stick it in cold I said nooooo! Mini torch for the win. You get better every time you “lay pipe” and learn something new 😂
@@OmarGarcia1 sometimes you just have to stick it in cold...
The Lawn Whisperer you sure do! Btw I didn’t know you lived in Indiana too! I’m not to far from you bro. On a side note what attachment did you get for Your flowzone. Picked one up yesterday. It’s 3:16 am right now and I’m up spraying haha
@@OmarGarcia1 it's a teejet nozzle. I have them pinned in a comment on my get your lawn ready for guests video
Im sorry but you guys must have soft lady hands if you need to use a torch at all LOL XD
Best use of a baking pan that I have ever seen!!!
I just installed a system myself about 2 weeks ago. I rented a vibratory plow and pulled the pipe through. It still requires digging to install the T’s between the pipes along with the heads. I felt your excitement! I’ve got my seed down and I’m loving it!
Oh yeah! I had grass pop up a few days ago! Love it
Very very god video. I am planing to do this on my house but before doing my lawn. I feel sorry for the damage on your beautiful lawn.
Nice lawn and I feel your pain digging up your lawn! I did the same late last summer because like you, I was tired of getting up at 4am to position sprinklers. Then I got a timer to attach to my outdoor water spigot, to alleviate some of the early morning risings. But I said to heck with all that and wanted a full automatic irrigation system, sprinkler heads, back flow preventer, control box (Hydrawise by Hunter) ,
yada, yada yada! But I opted for Blu-lock, no glue just push together fittings. Good Job!
6:37 good info right here. I never knew of this option that would save the grass.
Yeah I wish I had had more time and had done that!
The trick to going under the sidewalk is to do it with a garden hose on a pvc pipe. It softens the dirt and bores a hole as you work it with a little patience.
Dang dude. Props to you for taking on so much of this yourself. Will be extra rewarding in the end. Good job!
Thank you for showing me that this is not a project I'm going to DIY.
I can't believe you did this in late spring, almost summer. you're a WILD MAN!
I like to live on the edge 😏 it'll buff out! Wait til next vid 😂
The Lawn Whisperer I have no doubt you will. Can’t wait to see.
"If life were all about laying pipe . . . " you could have stopped right there and a nation of men would have instantly liked and subscribed. Beyond that, your admission that you, personally aren't very good at it was both stunning and brave. The fact that you have a truly beautiful lawn in spite of your admitted manly deficiency is inspiring, as is your courage to persevere anyway, knowing the holes in your game.
In all seriousness, your lawn looks awesome and it hurt to watch it get torn up, but the tips and laughs I got from watching you do it made it all worthwhile for me. Great video. I'll be subscribing. Thanks!
Awesome video man! I did ours about 5 years ago and never regretted it. I added a pneumatic fitting at our valve box so I could attach my air compressor to it and blow all the water out at the beginning of winter. Worked pretty well and was super easy to do. It was such a gratifying project.
The ball valve that shuts down all the sprinkler system could’ve been installed horizontally so it’s easy to shut off and on, also it would’ve saved you the money you spent on the 14x19 green box. Round one would’ve been enough. I love your video! You did an amazing job brother.
“I’m no good at laying pipe”.
That’s what she said......
That made me laugh out loud! 😂😂😂😂
Great video!
Wow Justin that is a lot of work to do by yourself (and some helper). But I'm proud of you for finishing the job.
Thank you for showing us this. It's helping me make future decisions .
Looks great! Your beautiful lawn will bounce back in no time!
Great Job. I will be doing my lawn in the coming weeks. I am a DIY guy. I don't trust contractors always cheeping out on everything.
😩😩😩 I couldn’t bring myself to do this ..
Speedy recovery 🙌🙏💪
Great job my friend. I commend you for doing it yourself. I reside in Northern VA. Got my irrigation system installed Aug 2019, in the middle of a super hot and dry Summer. What helped my lawn heal was watering each zone for 10 minutes per day, for 10 ten days in a row. By the time I over seeded the following month, the lawn had only a few areas that indicated where the pipe was trenched. By the middle of October after the new grass had been mowed for the third time, my lawn was as good as new. No need to worry, it’s worth the hard work you have put in...
It’s always interesting seeing how others install systems. The way we do it at my company is poly pipe not PVC and for the back flow we just have it plumbed from the utility room, or we take the spigot and extend the copper and run the back flow off that stub and put the spigot off the back flow of the copper was plumbed correctly. Enjoyed your video tho! Good work!
That looks like a lot of work! I’ll continue with the hose & sprinkler for now.
So worth it
@@TheLawnWhisperer maybe I can pay for your airline ticket to come help me install my own. I also need a drainage system in my backyard & the builder didn’t put in swales for water to drain out of my lawn.
An excellent video! I think that it is essential installing the pipe showing its information, I mean letters up; that way, you can see the kind of pipe used and how many psi can tolerate the system. Thank you.
Never knew mike the situation was such a lawn connoisseur
The biggest insult I've ever received 😂
nicely explained dude. i really enjoyed it. and beautiful place and home to live
Happy for you. Love the comedic drop-ins
Im not that confident! Much respect to anyone who is willing to tackle this DIY!
My Rachio just arrived in mail today and will be installing it tomorrow. I have the same Hunter PGP rotors and will be swapping a few of them this weekend with I-20 six inch risers. I cut my TTTF at 4 inches. In some areas of my lawn, the 4 inch PGP's can't really get over the top of my grass and it throws the spray off.
I'd say the labor is probably the hardest part to all of this. Congrats in the system!
When I had my system put in they had a machine that would pull the pipe under the ground and only made a slight scarring where they pulled the piping. They was done in like 4 hours. The machine you are using is really brutal on the lawn. I have 9 zones and 36 heads.
Yup
You'll love it! Good luck! You're life will be easier from this point on with watering the grass.
I felt your pain, it was tuff seeing a beautiful lawn ruffed up! To avoid that I hired a company during the dormant grass season, that was 5/6 years ago, the only regret was not getting one sooner. I feel this sprinkler and replacing all the windows were the best improvements we have made while living here.
“This is without a doubt going to be the greatest day of my life. WHAT!” 😂
To b honest that wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d b. That’s actually the best case scenario. But it ain’t my yards so..... good luck with restoring.
Never used PVC with funny pipe before. We always used poly pipe up here. I have put in whole systems myself. It definitely is a process.
Yo Jason G!😎👊
Not gonna lie Mr. Justin, I shed a tear for you and your lawn.
RIP hahah
Congratulations Justin , definitely like Christmas , Lawn will heel up it always does .
So glad to have been able to see that process. Nicely done, and thanks for uploading. Heartwarming when you were walking around with your beautiful baby. I was smiling like crazy. What a little sweetheart :):)
Wow amazing job. I enjoyed watching. 😎😎
Congratz bro! Working on the same project now. Seriously so excited!
Wait till next year when you put the first stake through a line or a head breaks... the best part of a sprinkler system is digging something up each year.
It’s soo great i watch it to many times, also can you please show us your controller in a video. I would be really happy. Thank you
Excellent video! You can use water or air to bore under sidewalks and driveways, water is a little messy but works great!
You’ll be thankful to have the system. I just had to raise 34 sprinklers to maintain good coverage. 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Man your yard is immaculate
“If life was all about just laying pipe, things would go a lot quicker.....” 😂
😳
That's what she said
They have Timers for that JS! :) I don't get up anymore I just use my timer and set it for how long and what time, Plus it rains so much here anyways! I did want one but I don't wanna mess my lawn up Lol, God bless you for doing it
I know how to kill a lawn and start over 😉
If you do the project yourself without a trenching machine it can be done, but it's very labor intensive and takes months. I've put in three systems in three different homes without heavy equipment. I start by installing the vacuums breaker valve and manifold boxes near the house. I temporarily connect spare zones that I can connect hoses to some of the valves in the manifold boxes. That way I could setup three different sets of hoses and sprinklers to irrigate the areas that had not being completed during the construction process. My third sprinkler system that I installed is actually two different 12 zone systems. I have a total of 24 zones. Of the 24 zones, there are 6 zones that are spare zones on different manifolds, that I can hook up hoses for seasonal garden areas for additional irrigation, or future expansion of the sprinkler systems. Each of the two systems has it's own vacuum breaker valve on each side of the house. Each 12 zone system has three manifold valve boxes. Each manifold valve box has four electric valves. One inch pipe feeds the water to the vacuums breaker valves from the water distribution pipes near the water meter in the basement of the house. I have two 12 zone controllers to operate the two systems. My system is probably much larger than most residential sprinkler systems.
I installed one zone at a time. I use a large, old kitchen knife to cut sections of the sod and fold them over. I then manually dug out the dirt with very small gardening tools, including a flat wrecking bar to loosen the soil. The soil is temporarily hauled away and stored in a pile that is not laying on the grass. Then the PVC pipes and connectors are installed in the zone trench from the manifold box to the heads. After each zone is completed, the dirt is returned to the trench, a little compost is added to liven up the sod that may have been folded over for several days. The sod is place on top of the thin layer of compost.
Occasionally, I would run into rocks that were in the way of my trenches. The rocks would have to be dug out of the ground. The rocks were usually up to 6 inches in diameter, but the largest rock was about 2 feet in diameter. The rocks were removed by digging and prying with my two 6 foot very heavy duty metal wrecking bars. One of my former homes had clay soil, which makes the digging dramatically more difficult. The other homes were loam soil, which makes the digging much easier.
I use the thicker PVC in the system, and I connect the heads directly to the 3/4" risers from the 1" PVC pipes. I'm not sure why you would need the flexible pipe to connect the sprinkler heads. I have 3 heads per zone, so I can get a lot of water pressure out of each head. I screw down the set screws in each head to diffuse the water, which reduces the water throw distance, but dramatically improves the water coverage. It took me several months, after workdays and on weekends to complete the sprinkler systems for each home I've lived at over the years. It's a tremendous amount of manual labor to do the job without heavy equipment, or destroying the yard, but it is possible to do. It saved a huge amount of money for my two 12 zone systems, but it consumed a huge amount of my free time to do the installation for each home. The cost for my system was only the parts, plus many hundreds of hours of my free time.
If you haven't done so already, you might also do a video about blowing out your sprinkler system with compressed air. Every year, you have to be very careful to throughly blow out your sprinkler system before the weather gets too cold, if you live in a cold climate that gets below 32 degrees for long time periods. Frozen water in system system will destroy your sprinkler system.
Y’all laid a lot of pipe. 😂 at least it’s all done now! Ready to see the comeback!
That’s awesome. Game changer for the grass for sure. Man, I want to do that to my yard. Maybe next season.
Justin: this is not a how to video
Also justin: heres the step by step guide of how I installed an irrigation system
Agreed! Not at all a how to or DIY. More like "we/they did"
What grass seeds do you use?
It's the Hey Bear sensory music for my kid, but it's the lawn for me. Lol!
Wow your lawn looked amazing before the install. What do you put on your lawn to make it look like that
I am going to be completely reseeding my lawn probably next spring so it sounds like now is a great time to set up irrigation. Thanks for this video!!
You should do the re-seeding in the fall.
Make sure you get the wifi rainbird then you can set it and forget it or turn it on whenever you want. I upgraded mine last year and its awsome!! Have fun!!
trenching in PVC pipe is such an old-school way of installing a system. When the company I work for installs a system, we pull in poly pipe. It makes way less of a mess installing and is much easier to service in the future.
Great
PVC is "Old school"...? Poly pipe was old school 20 years ago... In the commercial irrigation industry, we call stuff like poly pipe "Home owner crap". It's one of the harshest insults you can say to an irrigator. Residential irrigators are typically the half-ass guys that mostly mow lawns but try to do irrigation on the side.
This was awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Great video; can't wait to see what you did to repair your lawn. BTW, what type of grass is that?
Thx
Wireless valve controller will save future headaches with broken wires and/or controller. Hunter makes a good one that you can operate from your phone, though it is not cheap.
That’s the dream right there. In ground irrigation is the one thing I wish I put in prior to my sod when I built the house.
Only recommendation I’ll give is using marlex on spray heads . It helps with stability and avoid heads tilting.
Bloomington! My old home.
I found using a power washer needle nozzle to cut a trench best. Slices thru dirt. Throws mud but it washes in fast. Small hole.
Laying pipe....Hahahahaha. Great video brother. It was tough to watch through teary eyes though. Lol. That beautiful lawn. Can’t wait to see the rest of the process
Question: any reason not to put the valves in 1 location (a manifold of valves) saves wire and lawn boxes?
That’s how most people do it, I wanted them by each zone for two reasons: it saves pipe and I can manually turn each on to check for leaks and working etc. just a personal preference. Most people do put them all in one box though 👍
Thanks for the video. I have seen pvc and the flex hose laid across the lawn.
Why did you use pvc? Code? Preference? Quality?
How deep did you go?
Also, by doing a “T” off of the main water line coming into the house, aren’t you bypassing your water meter?
That looks real nice! Very educational video. I’ll have to recruit you if I ever need to install one. Thanks.
LOOKS AT THAT LAWN 😳😳😳👍
Hello, I have a question. Why are glued pipes used in your country? Not a simple black pipe?
Your meter is in the right-of-way? In Wisconsin we have them in our house.
I love this channel! I love the humor and I enjoy the excellent content!
Looking into doing some plumbing work, do you have an amazon link for that cookie sheet?
Awesome job if you don’t mind me asking but how much did everything cost,we are getting estimates for an irrigation system and the first estimate was 5800.00 😩with a 5 year warranty they come and winterize the whole system since we live in Buffalo NY.
Congrats on an awesome accomplishment brother, nicely done.
Thanks for the video.
Why not run the pvc pipe directly to the sprinkler? What's the pro and cons. I couldn't find a solid answer online. Thank you.
The flex pipe allows it to flex up and down incase something heavy drives over it. If the sprinkler is sitting directly on the pvc pipe and something heavy goes over it it could crack and break
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Jesus, it's rare you see a kid you can't deny paternity with so much certainty..... good on you sir!
It's exciting to see how easy it is to plan this out. I've been wanting to try an install on my lawn and been dreading it, but this helps. Obviously the labor is still not exciting, but I knew that was going to suck anyway.
Honestly the worst part is backfilling all the dirt into the trenches. And it sucked worse for me because it rained that night after I finished install before I could backfill so all the dirt was hard and compacted
@@TheLawnWhisperer Did you compact and water in the dirt after backfilling? I saw that ShortCutLawn did that but I wasnt sure how necessary it was
@@DRK_BBQ yeah you can do that or you can kind of mound it up so that after some rain or watering it will settle. I used sand (in the next video)
You're telling me that those idiots took that machine on your beautiful lawn AND trenched through your grass? Nope. I would have used a sod cutter for the trench line and plywood for the tracks. 3 pieces on each turn to count for tail swing. But I love your videos and appreciate them!
It grew back. No big deal
Nice work Pipe Layer ...... “no more waking up at 3am to water” ..... I’m surprised Mrs Whisper hasn’t stopped the “Pipe Laying” until the door is finally removed from the driveway! Nice Work Buddy ;)
It's gone now 😂😂
The Lawn Whisperer ...... Lol, ..... I like you Pipe Layin Whisperer ......
How did the sprinklers hold up over the winter. Would you recommend the hunter heads?
So i have three valves that i need to connect to the sprinkler programmer but one valve is in the front yard which is quite aways from the box. The other valves are behind the box but I'm confused on how to connect the common wire to all three valves. Would I have to cut it? Run two common wires?
The best video yet! I would love to give more than one thumb up! Greetings from Germany
Laying pipe” is the easy part. Just need rhythm, Fast or slow or combo. Either way get the job done. 🤣
Reminds me of last year on my 7,500sf reno of the front/side. Had my local sprinkler company that I work with on my jobs trench the bare soil, then had my bro (IU grad) help lay the pipe and connect heads. Then test and backfill. Graded and seeded. It was a nice Saturday!!
☀️ Upping your game!! Maybe one day I’ll get one. 😀
Very informative video! I've been thinking about doing one myself for a year now but my biggest hesitation is the trenching. I'd prefer to use a vibrating plow blade trencher, you make reference to it at 7:08 but the area I live is very rocky (middle TN) so I'm not sure how those things perform with that. 2 questions: did you encounter any big obstacles (rocks) during your trench digging with that big trencher you used and if so, did that trencher just plowed through it? And, question 2 is: I have a skinnier strip of lawn between the road and the sidewalk (3 feet), it runs for about 50 feet from end to end (corner lot), to save on digging and adding additional zones I was considering just placing those heads so it would water that strip section and reach over the sidewalk across the other side. I think you have a similar approach, couldn't tell very well from the video, but do you find too much water being wasted by watering the sidewalk and would you have done anything different on that setup?
Too late for your project so this suggestion is for those still learning through you. When marking out project consider landscape lighting. Can easily drop wire into trench before you backfill.
Off topic but on topic... that grass is beautiful!
Edit: it hurt me to see that grass dug up too🤣
What is the distance between heads (11-12 paces)? Also is the main line at the house 1" or 3/4" and does that go to your irrigation main line, which is either 1" or 3/4"? My main line is 3/4", but and wondering if I should go from 3/4" to 1" irrigation.