Sprinkler System Types

Underground sprinkler system

Usually installed before planting a lawn, they are the most efficient, sophisticated and cost efficient lawn sprinkler systems you can have for your lawn. After installing the underground pipe system (make sure you install it in a way that it covers most of your lawn) the system is connected to automatic timers and in-ground moisture sensors so that the lawn is watered only when it needs it. You can also set the timers to start watering when you are away from home, or you can adjust the system to start watering your lawn every day in a specific time. The control box for the system is usually installed in the garage. Another advantage of this system is that it will require very minimal effort from your part. If you have this kind of lawn sprinkler system we recommend to set the timer for watering every day at 5 a.m. for 30 minutes in the summer and 10-5 minutes in fall/winter times ( average ).
Most systems are unlikely to break-down, they are very popular and can be found at almost every irrigation stores, usually these systems comes with detailed information on how to install and use the system.
Advantages: efficient, money saving
Disadvantages: if you plan to install it alone, it will require couple days of work, and overall with underground installation, pipes, sprinklers and control panel it will cost you some money……

2. Hose-end lawn sprinkler system

There are five main types of hose-end lawn sprinkler systems:

1) Oscillating Sprinklers: are the most popular sprinklers today. The sprinkler is built in a way that it has a tube on its top, with several nozzles on it, that "oscillates" back and forth. The Oscillating Sprinklers are very easy to install ( just connect it to the hose), they usually spray water streams up into the air in a linear way and have the ability to cover large square-types areas, generally it will provide you twenty by thirty feet coverage of lawn. Because of their popularity, they can be found in almost every irrigation store with low prices.

2) Rotating sprinklers: Rotating lawn sprinkler systems spray water in a round pattern usually between fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, depending on water pressure, they are built with two or three spry arms that spins while it is watering your lawn. Usually the tips of the sprinkler can be adjusted, that way it gives you the ability to determine the size of the area being watered. Rotating sprinklers are also widely used and can be found in regular stores, with various prices.

3) Traveling sprinklers: are self-propelled sprinklers that look like a small tractor with two rear wheels. They are designed to cover large and irregular areas. The watering is made by a rotating sprinkler on its top

4) Impulse lawn sprinklers: must be the oldest kind of sprinklers; known by the “click- click “sound that the sprinkler produces when it is rotating. They cover circular or half circular areas and are highly adjustable, but in most cases this type is harder to install.

5) Box/rectangle shaped lawn sprinkler system: have limited coverage, designed to irrigate small areas or “holes” in your lawn that are not covered by other sprinklers. Working with low water pressure they come in several shapes like: rectangle, square and cone. New models have adjustable heads that can spray water in a number of ways and directions.