Hey! I am Sean from Sprinkler Daddy and I am in the shop, on a Saturday today, which is unusual for me. But I am finally making some time to get around to renovating our own house and sprinklers is a part of that.
So, right off the bat here, I haven't got enough time to do the whole system right now. But I have got shrubs in the front of our house, there's an overhang and the shrubs don't get any water and I don't want them to die, and I hate getting down with the hose and the watering those and my wife hates getting down with the hose to water those.
So, we are going to put in the Make-Shift drip system for right now. And we are going to eventually tie that into the manifolds for the whole system, but right now, we are just going to run it off of a tap and I wanted to show how I am going to do that.
So, basically I am in here, picking out all my parts and what I have started with is, up the top is, I am going to have this unit here, hooked up and this brass piece here is a three-quarter inch pipe or hose thread by a three-quarter inch pipe thread to thread on to my outside cap on the side of my house.
Then I have got a three-quarter inch nipple there, a pressure regulator because the drip line doesn't need all that pressure that you are going to get for your whole system, so you have got to cut the pressure down to 25 psi, so that's what that is. Then I have got a coupler to get my insert adapter on there. And then I am going to have my pipe on there. I am going to put that together with the clamp, like that and then, I am going to run my pipe into my shrub bed.
So, basically once I get into the shrub beds, the pressure line pipe, the half-inch pipe will just run along the top of the shrub bed and when I need to -- I'll be videoing the whole thing so you'd be able to see.
But there's a sidewalk that I have to get across. It's basically two beds separated by a sidewalk. So, I am going to go take some of the patio stones that are there right now and get underneath or tunnel underneath to get into the other bed, then I am going to run that bed on or run that pipe to the end of the bed. And at the end of the bed, I am going to have this little plug that we have got here, and what's that's going to do is, it's going to stay close for the whole year but then in the fall when I go to blow it out, I can just open this faucet here, and all the air and water can come out of the faucet instead of tiny emitter hole.
So, I am going to have that on with just a clamp there. Now off of that, pressure line, what I am going to have is, I am going to poke a hole with my trusty little punch tool here that -- so I am going to punch a hole in there and I am going to insert a quarter inch coupler into the pipe and then I have got my tube in here, that I am going to cut off for each shrub. At each shrub I am going to have a length of this tubing coming off the main pipe, that's going to be connected to the coupler.
And at the end of that tubing, I am going to stick in a Rain Bird Xeri-Bug Emitter, drip emitter. And I am going to set that tubing on a tubing stake here, so that each shrub can get some water and then after all of that's done, we are going to cover up that supply line with some EcoChips Mulch that we have got here. And we'll clean it up a little bit hopefully.
That's the parts that I am going to be using for my drip system and we'll take you along the way to show you how we put all this stuff together.
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