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GARDEN · HOW-TO · LAWN · NOV 02, 2021

How to Use Our Landscape Irrigation Planning


Designer

Before we start, we want to mention our amazing online sprinkler design tool: the
Orbit Sprinkler System Designer. This tool allows you to create an online sketch of
your property.

As you’ll see, the process of planning a sprinkler system can be a worthwhile


challenge. It requires time and accuracy. We’ve seen countless times how a small
mistake—a bad measurement, a misplaced head, or forgetting a feature of your
garden—can result in a bad plan (which, if not caught before installation, can cost
hundreds of dollars in supplies and labor to replace).

The Orbit Sprinkler System Designer (OSSD) can make this step very simple. Just
upload a bird’s-eye picture of your property (which can usually be obtained online
through Google Maps or similar programs) and then trace over it. You’ll only need to
measure one item of your yard, like the width of your driveway, for scale and the
computer does the rest. Once you’ve finished tracing and drawing (it usually takes
about 30 minutes) the system will ask for the water flow information you collected in
last week's blog and, bingo, you’re done. The computer will do the calculations and
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give you a plan for placing heads, valves, and zones in ideal locations. OSSD will even
give you a comprehensive parts and estimated
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& Growlist of all the supplies you’ll need.
You also are able to print a detailed, customized guide for installing the sprinkler
system, down to the placement of every pipe, every sprinkler head, and every nozzle.
Oh, and it’s totally, completely, 100% free! Yeah, it’s a pretty great tool and we’re
quite proud of it. We encourage you to give it a shot.

For those who are able to find success with the sprinkler design system, the rest of
this post will be more about sprinkler theory and why things are done the way they
are. For those going the old fashioned way, pay close attention to what follows.

Theory and Best Practice

Irrigation systems work in funnels; well, reverse funnels is probably a better


description. At the top you’ve got your main water line connection. This usually comes
from the municipal water system, but for some people a well is used or even, in rare
cases, pumps from some freshwater source like a river or lake. But the Average Joe is
connecting to his city’s water line.

From the water source, the water travels to your valve box containing a manifold and
several valves. Of course, your water may be required by local code to pass through
such things as a backflow prevention device, but the basic premise is water comes
from the main line, passes through the manifold, and then flows out through a valve
to the watering zone. Each zone contains a number of sprinkler heads, which is
determined by your available water flow. Sprinkler heads are the mechanisms you see
spraying the water on your lawn. There are various types of heads, each with a
specific purpose, and we’ll get to that in a bit.

There are many approaches you could take in deciding the number of zones, type of
heads, and watering means you will use, but the question that should guide all your
choices is, "How can I effectively water all areas of my yard using the least amount of
water?" This is where the savings will really come from, because no matter what kind
of system you put in, it will generally pay for itself if you maximize efficiency. So, make
watering efficiency and conservation your target and you’ll get where you need to go.

Head types

There are a plethora of head types used in irrigation systems. Let’s talk about each,
their pro’s and con’s and where you might use them.

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