I add my grain of salt (collaboration) to what I did, 26 years ago.
Water is expensive for domestic watering, and the chore is tedious.
I came across 2 boxes of drippers and fittings sold for 4 Fr at Carouf (before). I bought 20 m of special black pipe. And in fact with the loss of load this is not possible.
Found at croque-faille (before), a 50m roll of flexible dia 20 garden hose, not expensive at all. Its problem is that it is really floppy and if handled, tends to bend and twist. The trellis mesh to reinforce it made it difficult for me to plant my black connection bits there. And in the long run the thin wall tends to collapse and the nozzle leaks, but meh / the stolen water returns to the ground.
The izentrop pipe seems ideal.
Then water being quite expensive, and the resurgence of the Loire underground, I decided to dig a well on my own with tools of my design (a good month of summer and more...).
30cm of clayey soil, alluvial sand and pebbles which quickly blocked me at 4.80m.
The surface water is 2.30m in winter and 3.70m in hot weather. So that's fine.
In the housing estate it bothered me to run the pump, a little noisy all the same. I made an insulating box to enclose the pump. The top of a cut-out refrigerator chest, when it was possible to use it at the recycling center (before).
I made an outlet manifold, in 1 inch copper (recycled work) and 1/4 turn valves (recovered, but deteriorate in bad weather).
To supply the front of the house, I have no passage. So not possible to go through the house or the roof / lol. So I bought a 1 inch polyethylene pipe (and the necessary end caps), which I ran "parasitically" on the communal lawn, along the 30cm gable propped with stones against my foundations. I used a protective red scabbard there; way of speaking because these are scrap pieces in a construction dumpster that I gathered with gray sticky tape /lol.
In the photo, you can see the one-inch valve and the pipe going underground, incognito. With the diverter I can reasonably water the front of the house.
To the experience. Finally, even with this construction scheme, despite the pressure, the drippers became clogged, although the suction cremone was covered with 3 layers of filter fabric (?).
Now I use a lance made from an aluminum tube (broom handle?), first a watering nozzle adjustable by rotation, then the valve and at the end of the lance a watering can head. Directly fed on the pump, it rocks all the same.
Tomatoes, I water every 2 days and depending. But it's not a success, my crops in clay soil
For two years a much more serious problem. The invasion of tiger mosquitoes which prevent all activities in the garden.
Pfff, I can't even take my nap in my hammock anymore! Dog of life.
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Same principle as izentrop, but pipe too flexible.
The dripper support with IRO tube
...Is that okay with you?
