How To Install a Sprinkler System (under $400)!
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Published 2021-07-16
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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Pipe used was 3/4” schedule 40 PVC.
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This is how I did my irrigation system and is NOT a how to video. Install at your own
All Comments (21)
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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.
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What a soundtrack man! I love watching these satisfying work-videos and this is the best set heard so far💪
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Great video with a lot of quality information! Thank you! I wish we could have seen the system is operation.
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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 💪🏻
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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!
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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!
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This video was fantastic! Thanks Vince! You rock dude
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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
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First, love the valuable video and the entire process a truly learning experience.
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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
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Great video! Trencher for the win for sure. My back couldn’t handle all that.
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I’m attempting to in stall my own sprinkler system . And I can use all the info I can get.
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My Buddy did almost the exact thing but used craftsman garden hoses for the lines. His was a small yard but it worked great
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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.
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Very very helpful
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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.
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Great video... Thanks for sharing
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Hey my name is vince also! Great video truly helpful! I just found your channel and im definitely subsribing now!
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That grass is nice. Coming from Texas
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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. :)