Sustainable Irrigation begins with knowledge. Heads Up Sprinkler Co. 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 Drip 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 absorption. 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 watering (sitting above the ground covered by mulch) like flower beds or subsurface (below the soil) for watering grass. Drip enables more precise application of water for specific odd-shaped areas, plants with 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 pressure regulated valves, in-line filters located adjacent to the valve, flush caps (to remove debris in the lines) and air relief valves (mandatory for buried tubing). The primary application for this solution is foundation watering, flower beds, turf, narrow or odd shaped beds with low maintenance perennials and city building code mandated areas.
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 faucet (the end of the hose), less water flows out of the hose --- design must provide even water supply to all of the tubing. 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. A great application is for flower beds, foundation watering and especially good for narrow beds with specialty plants or with odd shaped areas. Drip tubing is available in flow rates between 5 gph to 24 gph. Critical Point: The idea is to design a solution that matches precipitation rate within a zone/station to deliver the appropriate amount of water each plant requires.
Low Volume Microspray heads are an alternative watering source that can be 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 Co has found that this tried and true product is a viable solution for smaller more narrow low growing flower and herb beds, decorative pots & planters located around pools, on porches and sot watering for specific plants. The sprays are adjustable and can be added to a spray station easily. Adding a micro adapter to a 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.
Critical Point: Design and quantity of microsprays installed per zone/station has to insure that there is no pressure loss to the existing pop-up heads. Additionally, the ¼” tubing must have a clear run and cannot become pinched underneath moved decorative pots or cut during trimming or plant maintenance.
Contact Us for additional help 214.837.1553
Benefits: Low Volume Drip 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 absorption. 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 watering (sitting above the ground covered by mulch) like flower beds or subsurface (below the soil) for watering grass. Drip enables more precise application of water for specific odd-shaped areas, plants with 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 pressure regulated valves, in-line filters located adjacent to the valve, flush caps (to remove debris in the lines) and air relief valves (mandatory for buried tubing). The primary application for this solution is foundation watering, flower beds, turf, narrow or odd shaped beds with low maintenance perennials and city building code mandated areas.
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 faucet (the end of the hose), less water flows out of the hose --- design must provide even water supply to all of the tubing. 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. A great application is for flower beds, foundation watering and especially good for narrow beds with specialty plants or with odd shaped areas. Drip tubing is available in flow rates between 5 gph to 24 gph. Critical Point: The idea is to design a solution that matches precipitation rate within a zone/station to deliver the appropriate amount of water each plant requires.
Low Volume Microspray heads are an alternative watering source that can be 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 Co has found that this tried and true product is a viable solution for smaller more narrow low growing flower and herb beds, decorative pots & planters located around pools, on porches and sot watering for specific plants. The sprays are adjustable and can be added to a spray station easily. Adding a micro adapter to a 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.
Critical Point: Design and quantity of microsprays installed per zone/station has to insure that there is no pressure loss to the existing pop-up heads. Additionally, the ¼” tubing must have a clear run and cannot become pinched underneath moved decorative pots or cut during trimming or plant maintenance.
Contact Us for additional help 214.837.1553