Garden Retic Design
Over the 57 drippers that s about 5 3 litres per dripper slightly more than the design specification of 4 litres per hour.
Garden retic design. You can now work out how many metres of polytube you re going to need for your irrigation system. It consumed 300 litres exactly. As were the garden secatuers i used to cut the pipe with.
Draw out the map including any obstacles in your garden such as trees. I love my water meter. Confirm the type of control system your require manual or automatic if automatic confirm available power source for position of controller b.
A plan drawn to scale with as much information as possible. Designing your own effective reticulation system is no mean feat and for that reason many shops that sell reticulation products also offer a service for designing complete systems. For this you can use graph paper or download our design planner 400kb pdf to view pdf documents you will need the adobe reader and draw out the design at a scale of 1 100 show all garden and lawn areas any paths or driveways retaining walls and where your taps are located.
I ran the fully assembled system for an hour the evening it was finished. Then note your measurements down on some grid paper make 1m 2 in your garden equal 1cm 2 on your paper to keep things easy. The downside to a prescriptive standard design is that it tends to over design in order to make the design one size fits all.
Luke smith reticulation garden design garden maintenance lawn care reticulation reticulation design sprinklers turf hydration 0 proper reticulation system design. Measure out your garden.