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Sustainable Irrigation begins with knowledge. Heads Up Sprinkler Company encourages you to keep up with current technologies that can help improve your landscape, minimize water waste and reduce your water bill.

Benefits: Low Volume Irrigation solutions apply water at a gallons per hour (gph) rate – meaning water is applied more slowly and directly to the root area for better penetration. This helps to save water and money by reducing overwatering and delivering water more effectively to plant roots. An added benefit for North Texans is to enable foundation watering during droughts and city imposed watering restrictions – protecting your home investment and your foundation.

Benefits: Drip solutions can be for surface (sitting above the ground) or subsurface (below the soil or covered with mulch) use. Drip allows more precise application of water for specific odd-shaped areas, plants of delicate watering needs and hard to reach locations (such as pots on porches or pool deck areas).

Low Volume Irrigation Options:

Drip Irrigation tubing is ½” in size and has built-in emitters every 12”, 18” & 24” for regulated distribution. This solution requires flow regulated valves, in-line filters located drip pipe bundle adjacent to the valve and minimum intrusion to the covered area. The primary application for this solution is foundation watering, narrow or odd shaped beds with low maintenance perennials and city building code mandated areas.

drip pipe build-out Shortcomings: First, it isn’t a product for success if you plan to use it in an area where you will be constantly digging or transplanting. Secondly, water distribution has to be centered- --- think about it like a soaker hose hooked up to a faucet, the beginning of the hose closest to the faucet soaks great, but the further from the water source, the less water flows out of the hose, until there is very little at the end --- care must be exercised in the installation to compensate for this need. Finally, common rodents, rabbits and smaller mammals tend to view this product as an easily accessible water fountain chewing or gnawing through the tubing walls for fresh water.

Drip Irrigation single emitters are used with solid thin-walled ½” or ¼” tubing and provide a single point of drip. The primary application is for narrow beds with specialty plants or with odd shape areas. These emitters have a barbed end which pierces through the tubing and secures at the emitter precisely where it is placed. The emission is available in flow single emitter rates between 5 gph to 24 gph. Shortcomings: The trick is to design a solution that matches precipitation rate within a zone/station so that the total run time for the station delivers the appropriate amount of water to each plant.

low volume micro-spray heads Low Volume Microspray heads are used with ¼” micro-tubing and provide a smaller, more direct spray – just like a pop-up spray head, but on a smaller scale. Heads Up Sprinkler Company has found that this tried and true product is a viable solution for smaller more narrow low growing flower and herb beds and decorative planters located throughout the perimeter of our customer’s homes. The sprays are adjustable and can be added to a gpm station easily. Although these sprays emit at a gph rate, the adjustability of the spray adds the needed flexibility to adapt the emitter into a gpm station. What does that mean in layman’s terms? low volume micro-spray head It means simplicity. Adding a micro adapter to a bottom of the closest pop-up spray head via a generic converter allows ease of access. The conversion includes a down-sizing of piping from the ½” to ¼” helping to reduce flow and allowing the addition of 1 to many microsprays depending on the size of the planter or area. Shortcomings: Care must be exercised in the design and quantity of microsprays installed per zone/station to insure that there is no discernable pressure loss to the existing pop-up heads. Additionally, the ¼” tubing must have a clear run and not become pinched underneath moved decorative pots or cut during trimming or plant maintenance.