Installation of the Drip Works Drip Irrigation system in a raised bed.

hello welcome to do-it-yourself with Lane today we're going to do something a little different in the past with our Gardens we've watered with things like this I mean it works well but it's time-consuming we've used the sprinklers like these they work well but they waste a lot of water this year we're going to install a drip irrigation systems first time we've ever done this so it's going to be a new experience for us we're going to show you how it goes this kit is from dripworks if you go to their website dripworks comm and look for raised-bed drip irrigation this is the medium-size kit so when you open up the kit this is what you get these rolls have a little thing inside the pipe ever so many inches or so that's your drip that's where it drips from those are 100 feet apiece you get three of them and that's a quarter-inch drip line this is a quarter-inch line that's just a solid line that you use running to these lines you get 100 foot roll of that you get a hundred feet of your half-inch mainline now this is the main line that you run like from your water spigot on the side of your house to your raised beds so it's a hundred feet of that and then there's a bag that has all kinds of stuff in it the extra parts it comes with this the first thing is your filter now this you'll screw on to your yourse picketing outside of your house the bottom here you can put your host pipe on there and use it just like you always do the bottom side is your filtered water and this filter is not like something a filter you'd have for your house it's just a screen it's not made to purify the water it just screams out the contaminants rear it or whatever that might be sufficient to clog up your drip lines so that's all the filter really does is you know filter out the larger parts and then you got a little cutoff valve down here and I said this part because your drip lines this is straight through that you can go to a host pipe or whatever now you also get a pressure regulator if you're like us and you're on a well pressure may not be an issue but use the pressure regulator anyway it just screws onto the bottom then you connect on here to go to your raised beds but the pressure regulator if you have pressure above about 30 psi it can cause some of your connections to leak they may even blow apart or something so you need a pressure regulator if you do a drip irrigation system so that comes with the kit that we purchased now also inside the kit there's quite an assortment and you get a list of all this like this is a tee for your main line there's several of those there's another tee let me just pour this out there's a lot of stuff in here that you'll need putting this kit together like this is a plug that you can use on the end now that's the hooks your spicket or the end of this to hook your mainline to that comes with it this is a plug that's another the same thing you've got several tees I mean the right angle for your mainline where you come up from the ground to go up to your raised bed pardon me you got straight connectors for your mainline if you need those these little things is for plugging the end of your mainline not so sure about how well that's going to work but we'll find out and you got an assortment of little connectors of tees and things for your small quarter inch line there are several bags of those things some of them are just plugs for the ends some of them are just a little straight connectors some of them are little tees for making your turns all this comes in this medium size kit you also get a supply of the little pins for staking down your dripline so they stay in place you also get a supply of larger ones for your mainline water line to make sure it stays in place and there's a little plunger thing I know you won't be able to see this but if you mash it little pin comes up through there and that will poke the hole in your mainline for where you need to branch off for your smaller lines so that comes in the kit so it's a really nice kit the only thing we bought extra was a timer we bought this timer it was the recommended timer for this particular kit it's got an LED display nice little panel you hook it up the bottom of all this and you can regulate when your water pressure goes to your raised beds for your drip irrigation and how long it runs so it seems like a really nice little timer so that's the system that we're going to start installing today so let's get with it now at this point we laid our parts out this is warm out this is my well house and in a future video we'll be doing a video about this well house and how it was built is a completely unique design that we came up with but that would be for another day but anyway that's where the spicket is for my outside water and we got our pipe lay in here and going up through there we created our trench to bury the pipe cause I don't want it right on top of the ground so we created a trench to put it in it's not very deep but it'll be deep enough it will be covered up so I don't have to worry about running over it with a lawn mower or anything and before we got started with digging the trench we took our pipe and we unrolled it and stretched it out that lets the pipe kind of come to a straight status or whatever and lay it in the Sun it gets more pliable makes it a lot easier to deal with when you start trying to put it in a trench and cover it up and on up here and I raised beds we laid out a couple of parts we've got a tee there that will be down in the ground with our mainline water line and then to be disturbed it comes up from there we've got a tea there and then we've got a right-angle one down there you can't see it but it's down there and one thing I'd like to point out if you do bury your waterline like we have here if you find rocks make sure when you cover that water line up those rocks don't get against your pipe because in time there's a good chance that that can cause your pipe to leak so just make sure that you don't have any large rocks or anything of that nature by next to your pipe when you cover it up okay this is a third of our three raised beds we've already done the first two where we put a tee in here then in most of the videos that you'll see in the instructions they tell you to run your your water line up the outside of your raised bed I don't really care for that I won't mine inside so it's more protected so I dug out under here a little bit but anyway to get started you take a good sharp knife you can use a pair of good scissors or shears or something but when you cut the end of your pipe you want a good clean square edge you take your in this case we're doing a tea and a little ants on there and you just push it in twist until you get it all the way in or as it'll go and then you turn it where you want it pointed and then you turn this part to lock it and that locks the pipe in place we measured how long we wanted our teeth or them in our stub to come straight up same thing good square edge push it in just keep twisting it till you get old wing as far as it'll go and then turn your piece on your tee to tighten down on it now you got your teammate and like I said in the videos they tell you to come up the outside but I don't like that so what we were doing I was taking this bigger piece of pipe and just jam it down through here until it comes out at the bottom that makes me a small hole and then I take my pipe and run it up into big pipe and what that does for me is it gets this little pipe up through the dirt without getting it full of dirt we will be flushing these pipes before we hook up the drip line but still you don't want your dirt in there that you can prevent and by running it up through the larger pipe that's through here that helps keep from getting more dirt than we can prevent inside of this pipe so that's why we did that and that's how we set these things up and now we're going to cover our mainline water line coming up from our well and then we'll do that when we'll come back and we'll finish these out and start installing our drip lines now we're back at our water spigot and our wail and we're ready to hook this up I'm gonna take our host pipe off I had it mostly loose obviously the first thing you want to hook up is your water filter and as I showed you before this just is a filter to figure filter out large particles if you're in a whale situation like we are you may get particles of sand or something occasionally and those things can clog up your your drip irrigation lines so you know you need a filter like this and it just threads on to your water spigot just make sure the part here for your canister is it snugged up good and tight the next thing you have is a cut-off valve screw that on now your cutoff valve if you look at this this handle looks like a little pointer if the pointer is crossways that stops the water flows if the pointer points the same way the line is going or the water flow that means the water is on so that's on and that's off that's how the water cutoff valve works the next thing you've got is your pressure regulator go ahead and screw that on just snug it up good and next you got your timer let's go a timer on apparently the timer's got loved threads there we go and the timer is nice you can turn it to where it's more easily viewed the display part will angled am covers up the display with this little plastic part I like that that's how that works and then the next thing is hooking up your mainline hose now I've got extra mainline hose here I'm going to leave it like that for now but I will cut it off later as I bury at the end of this but here again to make these you just push it in just give it some twisting push it in till the pipe is all the way in the fitting and then you turn this part until it clamps down on the pipe and that's all you got to do to connect that and then screw that on to the end of this and that's it you got your water spicket got your water filter got your cutoff valve you got your pressure regulator and got your timer got the water main line water line going up to your raised beds now if you didn't purchase a timer whether it be this one or another style you wouldn't have this part and your main line and that fitting would screw directly into your pressure regulator that is here so if you didn't buy the timer to automate this you just wouldn't have this part and if you don't have the regulator I mean you know the timer you just got your system off and on with your valve on your water spigot and also we've got a second outlet here that we can click our host pipe into let's go ahead and hook that up then get it your screw on and there we go and there's our finished system with our hose pipe and our mainline water go into our water beds all hooked up now at this point we've got our mainline water line installed we've got it under ground we've got it covered up we've got the end stubbed up at our water gardens and one thing other videos don't tell you or at least not that I've seen if you put your water line underground there's a lot of potential to get crud inside your pipes so before you start hooking up the ends of them make sure you flush those lines out now we've adjusted our timer so that the water is on I'm gonna turn my water on and if you look up you can see water coming out the end of our pipes at the end into water gardens we're gonna let that run for 30 seconds or so just to flush those lines out to make sure there's no dirt in them then we're going to turn our water off and proceed with hooking up our drip lines now here's our first raised bed we finished it and as you can see we've got it functioning the drip lines are dripping and if we scroll back you can see the the entire bed it's four feet wide sixteen feet long and the drip lines are working very well from end to end and so far we're very pleased now we're going to move on to one of our other raised beds and show you the the procedure for installing this now at this point we've got our main lines installed we got them under ground we've got them stubbed up at our raised beds and I don't know if I said this before but I wanted these inside a lot of people put them outside but I wanted them inside to protect them better because you know if you have it outside and you weedeater hits it or your lawn mower bumps up against it or even some critter wants to chew on it it can damage your water line and so that's why I wanted mine on the inside to protect them better but anyway we got this stubbed up and we're ready to start installing our lines basically we got the drip line we got our solid line we'll be using both of those we got a bunch of these little right angle fittings we'll be using a bunch of those we've got the transfer barb now the transfer barb is just the part that you stick into this to tap into for your smaller lines it's called a transfer barb and then you've also got your goof plugs and a goof plug is nothing but a plug at the far end of your drip lines you put a goof plug in the end to plug up the end of the pipe and that's all the goof plug is for is it's a plug okay so we've also got a little tool for creating the holes here hmm so we're going to have four lines so we need four drip holes I've already made one right there let's make separate them a little bit put one right there put one right there don't put one right there these are gonna be a little bit high but I'm gonna be okay with that for now we need to put plugs in them these are the transfer barbs we'll put those in those holes I just created they're a little bit hard to push in but if you get them all the way in most of them you'll hear a little pop when it finishes and the the flat part of the transfer barb should be up against the mainline tubing when it's all the way in alright there we go that's those four now you want to cut some tubing to come across and I cut this stuff a good sharp knife will work if you've got the pair of good pair of shears or scissors that'll work as well it doesn't take much to cut this stuff all right there we go now cut four pieces of tubing different lengths to run across here I'm trying not to stir up my plants have already got coming up but you take wait the piece of your tubing that you just cut and you put it into one of the barbs just push it all the way in till it seats at the bottom like so and I could have made this a little neater and I may come back and neaten it up some later but right now this is gonna work cause I got a bunch of ants here and I'm worried about getting eat up by ants all right so now we've got four tubes coming across here at different lengths on all four of them I'm going to put a right angle connection now we've got our four lines hooked up we've got a little 90 degree elbow in each one they'll be laying in the beds coming straight across with the drip lines going straight out we're gonna plug our drip lines in all right we have a little bit of camera problem so we may have missed out a little bit here but we got this finished up we got our our plugs in here we got our lines coming across we've got our drip lines going out we've got our water turned on as you can see although the lines are dripping at this point we may move them around a little bit when I can get a little bit wide right in here things like that but for the most part this is working so we got this bed and our third bed both finished up we don't have anything planted in our middle bed yet so we're not doing the drip lines in it just yet but so far this system looks like it's working well and I'm pleased with the kit like I said it's from dripworks dripworks comm and the only thing we bought those in the medium-sized kit for raised beds was the timer and it all seems to work well and the reason that I chose dripworks I did a fair bit of research and I liked the way their fittings worked they had good reviews and you know there's a lot of different brand names of drip irrigation on the market and I'm not gonna say this is the best but it seemed to me like it was one of the better ones so that's why I chose it but anyway that's it for drip irrigation installation we just like to say thank you for visiting do-it-yourself with Wayne we hope you have a great day and a wonderful gardening season you

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Length: 21min 51sec (1311 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 23 2020