Automated Efficient Lawn Irrigation Few enjoy dragging a sprinkler around the yard to keep the lawn green during summer dry spells, and today in most cases it is also not a feasible option. Today no one has to. A professionally designed landscape sprinkler system from Advanced Landscape Management will have the sprinkler system buried beneath a lawn, shrubs or garden and will take over the job completely. At the turn of a handle or--in an automatic system--the automatically timed flick of a switch, sprinkler heads push up through the grass and flowers to create overlapping umbrellas of spray. At the end of the watering period the heads sink into the ground.

Underground Sprinkler Installation Installing such a sprinkler system is really fast and efficient. A simple lawn may have all its sprinkler heads on one supply line, controlled by a single shutoff valve. A larger yard is divided into several individual areas with different watering needs calls for a more complex professional system with several supply lines, each serving a single watering zone and fitted with a separate shutoff valve, but again no problem for the experts at Advanced Landscape Management. The most common watering zone design considerations are a sunlit front lawn that must be watered long and often; shady areas that need briefer, intermittent watering; and gardens that are watered through sprinklers with high heads.

Pop-Up Sprinkler Heads The so-called pop-up sprinkler heads that you are most likely to use are installed just below the surface of the ground, out of sight, out of the way of lawn mowers. Today's system are very dependable and save a substantial amount of money and time. When the shutoff valve is turned on, water pressure forces an internal piston upward to just above ground level, and the water sprays in a full or partial circle; when the water is turned off, gravity or a spring within the head brings the piston down again. Smaller areas and garden beds can be covered by the simplest type of pop-up, consisting of a fixed piston whose only motion is up and down. And area greater than about 60 feet across must be watered by a more expensive rotary pop-up, which has a rotating piston or spout that shoots out long jets of water.

Underground Sprinkler System Design Designing a system that takes into account all the variable of site, light, soil, plant species, trees and vegetation is a job for an expert. Fortunately, it is also a job that an expert will do for you free of charge. As a normal course of business Advanced Landscape Management offers a free consultation on moving forward with one of the best decisions you'll ever make; professionally installing an underground sprinkler system. It is extremely helpful to the designer if you gather some preliminary basic, but extremely necessary information like--a rough scale map of your house and grounds, together with data on plantings, septic system, plumbing system, soil and climate. Professionals from Advanced Landscape Management will ascertain where you have grass and where you have flowers or bushes; which areas are sunlit and which shady; whether your soil is sandy, rocky or compact. The blueprint you receive will indicate the type of sprinkler head in each zone, the location and settings (for full or partial circles) of the heads, and the layout and diameter of the interconnecting web of plastic pipes.