Landscape Irrigation

Landscape Irrigation

My grandmother didn’t want to put in an irrigation system because she thought it cost too much.  She would spend many hours in the yard watering and taking care of plants.  Unfortunately, one day she tripped over the hose and broke her hip.

Irrigation systems have many advantages : 1- Safety 2- Convenience 3- Time Saver 4- Quality.

Irrigation Safety

For seniors, especially with osteoperosis, they shouldn’t be out watering the lawn.  When one fall can break a bone, it’s much too dangerous to be out working in the yard.  Irrigation systems make the home much safer because it removes the temptation to get out the hose and water by hand.

Irrigation Convenience

Do you like summer vacations?  It’s a lot nicer to have an automatic system to rely on.  You can set it and forget it. 
It’s also easy to keep track of the time each part of the lawn is watered because they timer does it for you.  You can set each zone for the precise time and duration.

Irrigation Time Savings 

It can take a whole day to water the lawn properly with a hand operated sprinkler.  In today’s world, it’s just not worth wasting all that time.  If your time is worth anything at all, you won’t want to spend it watering the lawn. 
Many people who think they can’t afford an automatic sprinkler system are often making a poor choice.  For example, a few extra hours at work is a lot more economical than spending a lot more hours watering by hand.  Automatic sprinklers are very inexpensive when you take into account the alternative time required to do so by hand.

Irrigation Quality

A properly designed sprinkler system will have double coverage.  That means the water from one head will shoot out and touch the water of the opposite head.  This excellent type of coverage can’t be obtained with hand watering. 

A good automatic irrigation system will water in a somewhat even distribution.  This allows better saturation in lower watering time.  In most cases, you will save water and the plants will look better because they are watered more evenly.

The best systems are put in by professionals.  Professional landscapers have access to better parts than most homeowners.  In addition, the labor cost is fairly minimal in an installation.  It makes the most economic sense to hire a professional to put in your system unless you are making a really low wage at your job.

Irrigation has been around for as long as humans have been cultivating. Fortunately, we no longer must haul buckets of water for irrigation needs.