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No, I haven’t tried spray heads. If you want to spray do not use a pressure reducer. You will need full available pressure to make a spray head work. Give it a try. It should work.
Carlshome, did you ever try spray heads on your system? I’d prefer to use those over drip or soaker hose, if I can get enough pressure and flow in my little system to work with them.
Thanks.Thank you, Michelle and Carlshome. I feel encouraged after reading your posts about how simple a system can be. I’ll look on this site for plumber recommendations, since I know that I want a professional for that.
I too wanted to water a few things at my place. See attached photo. Here is a description top to bottom of what I did:
Top: “Frost free hose bib” (use this term to search Amazon) that turns off the water inside the wall. It includes a back flow preventer.
Splitter: Allows timer on one side, hose on other
Timer: Runs on 9V battery, choose day(s) of the week, time to start, length of time, etc.
Pressure Reducer: 30 psi for drip system
Splitter: Hose goes to one location far away, drip line goes to location close by.In winter I remove the entire assembly, as well as the hose. Then I cover the hose bib with a foam cover for insulation.
With a simple system like this you would only need the plumber to install the hose bib.
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I would just call a plumber to install the hose bib and shut-off valve so you can drain it in winter. I have my plants on a system, and I bought the timer unit (including back flow prevention) from the hardware store. I use a full-size drip hose, rather than the narrow individual dripper system I use in the Bay Area. The full-size hose drains better when I take it down in winter, and is more robust when deer and other animals run over it.
Best to get a system where you can water every other day for when the drought measures come back. Even with minimal water, I love the way so many of our natural plants have sprung up within reach of the hose — baby oak and cedars, white thorn, wildflowers, etc.
We’d like to install a small single-zone irrigation system just to water the beds around the patio of our cabin in BTV. Does anyone know of someone in the area who could do that? The job will require installation of a new outside hose bib from an existing water line (in an exterior wall nearby), then the irrigation and shut-off valves, back flow preventer and timer. I can do the distribution lines and spray heads.
I know landscape irrigation isn’t too common up in BTV, and we’ve been hand watering stuff, but it would be nice to have something that would keep things watered when we can’t make it up there.
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