Automatic drip irrigation system

[Muse]

It should work. You may want to invest in a slightly better torch as it will have a more "concentrated" (or maybe focused is the right word?) to deliver more heat. IMHO if you're messing with that line I would turn off the water at the meter and replace the shutoff valve with a nice 1/4 turn ball valve while you're at it.

And if you want real code compliance add a pressure relief valve (water heater style) after the regulator. Theoretically could prevent interior flooding if city pressure went haywire for whatever reason.

I'll consider that 1/4 turn ball valve and pressure relief valve.

I brought my borrowed water pressure meter back to my town's tool lending library yesterday and showed the guy that photo in this thread of the service and he said he thought I should strongly consider placing the pressure reducing valve to the right, under the house, on the other side of that screen. That's actually in a crawl space but I think I can get in there. He said I'd have more room to work than that short 6" length of 3/4" copper. A disadvantage would be having to crawl around 50 feet to get there. An advantage would be to be under the house and any wind would be negated, so I could presumably get higher temperatures out of my torch. 😕

Edit: Of course, a couple more advantages to installing the pressure regulator on that outside 6" vertical tube is that it will be a ton easier to adjust or repair the regulator!

 

[NutBucket]

I wouldn't want to be doing this work in a crawlspace. I would elbow the supply line and install everything horizontally. Then just u-turn back into the house.

 

[Muse]

I wouldn't want to be doing this work in a crawlspace. I would elbow the supply line and install everything horizontally. Then just u-turn back into the house.

I'm trying to picture this. 😕 That fitting at the top of the vertical run (that has a hose valve screwed into it on one end and a copper run going the other way into the crawlspace), if I put a torch to the bottom of it can I remove it from the vertical copper tubing and reattach it 90 degrees counter clockwise to run parallel with the front of the house (i.e. pointing away in the current view)? If I did that I could attach copper 3/4" tubing, work in the pressure regulator (a relief valve too), then an elbow and from there on into the crawlspace, assuming I can manage the connection with what's under the crawlspace. The hose would point to the side, but I figure that's OK.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Muse, I don't see any of your images.

 

[NutBucket]

I only see them in the Tapatalk preview but not when I actually open the thread.

Looks like you're using google photos to host? You can't embed images, just post the links.

 

[Muse]

Muse, I don't see any of your images.

Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. I can always see them, at least in this thread. Maybe you can hit this:

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOQ8TrnM8aPDESvm2KmJ7ZVl9h3XipuyzHCQKky

I can hit that and see it.

 

[Muse]

I only see them in the Tapatalk preview but not when I actually open the thread.

Looks like you're using google photos to host? You can't embed images, just post the links.

Yes, I'm using Google Photos.

When I embed the photos I see them in the thread, don't know why you can't. Can anyone else see the photo embedded in the thread?

How would I embed the photo in such a way that there's no problem seeing it? Where would I go? A different hosting site? 😕

 

[NutBucket]

Yeah, like photobucket, imagur, etc.

Edit: can't see the link you posted either. Are you sure the album is public?

 

[Muse]

Yeah, like photobucket, imagur, etc.

Edit: can't see the link you posted either. Are you sure the album is public?

Well, I don't see "public" in Google Photos. The album is "shared." It says that anyone can see the album, but I didn't post the link to the album just pulled "copy image location" from the right click context menu when I enlarge that photo (i.e. click it when looking at the album) and pasted that into "Please enter the URL of your image:" here.

Well, I have a photobucket account (from 2007). I just uploaded to there. Can you see this: 😕

 

[NutBucket]

Ah, you need to get the shareable link for each photo. That's the problem.

 

[Muse]

Ah, you need to get the shareable link for each photo. That's the problem.

Well, I suppose I don't know what that is. Anyway, see my last post (hopefully you'll see the image there) http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=38123094&postcount=34, that's the forums sharable link from Photobucket, where I just uploaded the image to.

The darn Google Photos system is a mess, IMO. I can't make much sense of it and getting a link that works here from that should be a piece of cake, but dunno, seems to work for some folks, not others, have no idea why not. I've used the same system in other threads here and it's seemed to work, well, for a lot of folks. 😕 Anyway, in the future I think I'm sticking with Photobucket, as long as it works.

 

[NutBucket]

I can see it! (Photobucket) let me cobble together my suggestion....ms paint may be in your future LOL.

Here is where I would cut the existing pipes:

And this is what I would install:

From the cut off pipe sweat an elbow that would then go parallel to the foundation. The install a quarter turn valve (red pentagon), hose bib (brown star so you can measure city pressure), pressure regulator (yellow square), pressure relief valve (green quadrilateral), and another quarter turn valve. The use a few more elbows to get the pipe back to the existing tee/hose bib. I wouldn't want to mess with the pipe going into the crawlspace unless absolutely necessary.

 

[Jason bourne]

It's a big problem to irrigate the lawn, but it's a topic four years ago. I can't directly talk about the product. It's suspected of advertising.

 

[Greenman]

It's a big problem to irrigate the lawn, but it's a topic four years ago. I can't directly talk about the product. It's suspected of advertising.

Then why bump an old thread with no new information? Clearly your hope is that someone will ask about "the product".

 

[Jason bourne]

Then why bump an old thread with no new information? Clearly your hope is that someone will ask about "the product".

Yes, because I know there is a smart sprinkler timer, which is very suitable for home use