One of the most annoying things about homeownership can be not having an automatic sprinkler system. Even if you are the type of person that has no problem whatsoever going out and watering your own yard, everyday life tends to get in the way and it’s extremely easy to forget to water causing your lawn to dry up and die.
Depending on the type of climate that your home is located in an automatic sprinkler system can be either a really nice luxury that saves you money or a complete necessity. A well-designed home sprinkler system can save you time, energy and expensive water bills but the system itself can be extremely pricey as many automated sprinkler systems can cost anywhere from $5000-$6000 for an average size yard.
Purchasing a sprinkler system for your yard is not something that you should take lightly and if you have plans on installing a sprinkler system yourself you should probably think twice as it can be an expensive proposition if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing.
When it comes to purchasing an automated sprinkler system for your yard one of the first things you will need to do is determine how much of your yard needs to be your dated above and beyond the moisture escaping from normal rainfall. When it comes to things in your yard that use water of course your lawn is probably the biggest culprit of your large water bill, however, if you have vegetables and flowers they need constant moisture during the growing season. Large bushes shrubs and trees all have deeper roots allowing them to get by with less frequent watering. You can minimize the amount of water being used by your sprinkler system by setting up each of these different types of water needing plants with their own individual sprinkler settings and sprinkler heads.
We recommend that you look at considering an underground sprinkler system for the parts of your home’s yard that have a basic layout that won’t change every year. If you plan on changing your yard you want to be pretty careful as it gets expensive to move around underground pipes that have been installed several inches underground sprinkler heads place that’s very specific intervals.
We recommend having a professional sketch the entire area of the lawn and indicating the planted spaces and existing watering systems that will be needed. Before you and landscaping professional make the final decision of where to put the sprinkler lines and sprinkler heads you want to be sure that you are satisfied with where each of the plant are and you don’t want to make any changes to your yard designer layout. If you are going to make changes to your yard in the next few years it’s probably best to wait until you have the money to make all of the landscaping changes at once rather than install a sprinkler system now only to find out that it won’t meet your needs a few years from now.