Thursday, October 18, 2007

Irrigation System

The irrigation system was installed today, one day earlier than I expected. It's all rigid plastic pipe about 8" below grade, with tees and flexible feeds about 2' long to each sprinkler head. That should make it much easier to raise / lower and slightly reposition the heads over time.

It is essentially a dual system with two feeder pipes running totally around the perimeter of the lot and in parallel in sections of the rear and front yards. One feed is for the planting beds for shrubs, trees, and flowers. The other is for the sodded areas.

Since I didn't have my camera with me, I was sketching the location of the lines. It was a race, as they were burying pipe about as fast as I could sketch the location. I was able to see where they ran the lines under the sidewalk in two places, but they were ahead of me on a third.

Now we're ready for the actual landscape installation.

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