Hi, Great video! Amazing job doing such a tidy installation into your existing lawn. One thing that wasn't mentioned was the application rates of the sprinklers. As you are using rotor sprinklers, the 90 will apply double the amount of water per cycle when compared to the 180, as it only has to rotate half the distance before returning back to its start location. You can minimise the effect of this using the supplied nozzles. Try doubling the nozzle size for the sprinklers with twice the arc size for a more even watering. For example, use the number 1 nozzle for the 90 and the number 2 nozzle for the 180.

I’ve spent countless hours doing the maths behind all this before doing an installation. Typical water is 28l/min @ 3.1 bar in my area (Yorkshire) but I can’t believe how much the water the claber pop up sprinklers use at 13l/min when there fully open at 360 degrees when running 3 bar to them. No wonder you struggled with the water flow. I’ve purchased the Rainbird 1800 with the HE-Van nossles, they throw 4.6m @ 2.1bar which I’ve bought the pressure regulated pop up sprinklers so I don’t have to manage the pressure. They still gobble up 14l/min though at 360 degrees. But I have a triangle shaped lawn on the front of my house that’s south facing and I hate having to water it 2 times a day in the summer. 2 would be fine but I’m putting a 3rd just to cover every inch enough. So it should realistically only use 7l/min

Nice job waiting for the next update

Glad you managed to find a solution. Shame the first way didn’t work though and added work and money to the job!

would it have been worth linking all the sprinklers together in a loop then T off to the pump to ensure even pressure rather than a feed in feed out. really impressed with the outcome and thank you

Brill, I have the claber system but haven't installed yet as they seem very leaky! May go for this system instead. Looking at doing a similar thing with a water butt source and mains back-up. I found a system called RainAid RA20 which might allow you to run off a mix of rainwater and mains

Hi, thanks for this very useful. Did you calculate how water this used in a 10-minute run? I'm trying to calculate how much water storage I need to feed my lawn before purchasing everything

Be really good for the two weeks of the year you need it 😂😂

Hiya mate, great post. Totally helped me make up my mind what system to get. One question - what timer/app system did you use please.

Cool setup, I'm doing exactly the same with the waterbutts, I have the drainpipe hooked to it but unsure on how to sort the tap supply to fill it if it's not rained in a while, have you come up with a solution for this yet

Excellent job mate. How did the Rainbirds fit onto the Claber attachments? Did you have to do any adjustments? I'm about to install the Claber system, but could swap out the sprinklers to Rainbirds, if straightforward enough? Cheers pal

I take it you were fitting the top of the sprinkler head touching the bottom of the spirit level? Do you notice the sprinkler heads on the lawn? Have you had any issues with them getting covered in soil or grass or not being able to force themselves up?

Just got my order and set up the system, as you’ve had yours set up for a while can I ask if the water that comes out and around the pop up at start/finish effects the grass around this area ? Many thanks.

Hey m8 what sensor did you use as there’s 2 different sorts & where did you pick one up planning on doing an install are they best put into lawn or like you have done along border

Hi chap , Hows this system holding up? Lee 👍

Where do you have your Gardena smart pump stored now it’s all finished ?