Autumnal Designs
Autumn may be here but that hasn’t halted the enquiries from flooding in. Our design team have been hard at work designed irrigation systems bespoke to individual gardens and the clients requirements, from expansive lawns that call for large arcing sprinklers such as Rain Brid 6504’s to delicate vegetable gardens that require the precise amount of watering for a bountiful harvest using a range of micro sprays as to not disrupt root growth. All programmed by a central controller that can be linked via Wi-Fi to a remote weather station which enables the controller to alter the water applied as the weather changes. This encourages the correct plant growth and saves water.
The irrigation design have been finalised, the materials and components ordered which means an installation is upon us. Over the next few weeks our engineers will be on site at a property located in the picturesque North Downs installing a new garden irrigation system comprising of lawn sprinklers, drip line to the flower beds along with a 5m3 tank and pump. The drip line and sprinklers are on separate stations, enabling the client to have different run times and therefore apply different amounts o water to each type of planting. The irrigation to the lawn has been designed using Hunter MP Rotator sprinklers which offer low precipitation rates, matched precipitation and uniform distribution.
Although the summer may nearing its end, our service department is still busy will call-outs. This week one of our engineers visited a property near Henley-on-Thames where a customer was experiencing problems with their lawn sprinklers. The sprinkler in question was a Rain Bird 5004 and was situated near an overgrown flower bed that had encroached onto the lawn, resulting in the sprinkler becoming tangled and thus clogged by the surrounding plants, stopping the sprinkler from popping up. The sprinkler was removed from the lawn and cleared of all debris, the sprinkler housing had no signs of damage and was refitted into the lawn. The irrigation system was then started to make sure the problem was resolved.
Our automatic watering systems are designed to meet the needs of each of our customers, not all types of irrigation call for dedicated controller panels, instead sometimes the simplicity of a tap timer is more than sufficient. The Claber Tap Timer has two integrated valves, ideal for watering two separate zones in the garden, be that the flower beds with drip or lawn with sprinklers. The tap timer is capable of providing up to three irrigation cycles per day for as short as 1 minute or up to 24 hours, with programs easily set via the display and three buttons.
We’re in the peak of summer and so to in our service jobs. Our engineers are as busy as ever on regular call outs to rectify problems of our customers irrigation systems. This week one of our engineers was called out to a customer in Marlow to fix a small leak to a stretch of LDPE drip line that the gardener had accidentally caught along with installing more drip line to a new flower bed. To fix the split in pipe, the area of concern was cut out and fitted with two barbed couplers to reattach the two halves, thus fixing the leak.
Properties come in all shapes and sizes and so too must our irrigation systems to meet the needs of our customers. We’ve just completed work on a modest garden consisting of multiple flower beds surround a paved patio, the brief was to design a system that wasn’t too complex and could be manually controlled. The result was a combination of driplines and micro sprinklers which are on separate stations, enabling the customer to apply different amounts of water accordingly. To avoid any complications in regards to operating the system, the decision was made to keep it fully manual by using two full flow valves with leavers as to keep the system as simple as possible.
Spring has finally sprung meaning TCR are as busy as ever with numerous projects involving our design and service departments on the go, from concept designs to install and start-ups to servicing. Our engineers have been hard at work visiting our wonderful clients in the High Wycombe and wider North London area in recent days, where they have been commissioning irrigation systems along with carrying out annual services and maintenance work.
At TCR we’re never far away from some the country’s most beautiful homes and gardens, and our latest install is no exception. Set in the South Downs National Park in Sussex, surrounded by farmland and woodland our engineers have been busy putting the final touches to an irrigation system to large lawns and multiple flower beds, fed from an existing borehole on the property.
The lawn has been fitted with 30 RainBird 5004 pop-up sprinklers and 40 Hunter MP Rotators for an even application. With the lawn recently laid, a mole plough was used to cause as little disruption whilst laying the pipe, this method allows for a clean and neat finish to the lawn.
The multiple beds consist of a combination of drip lines and micro sprays, accounting for larger shrubs and delicate plants. Due to the multiple areas of the garden requiring varying amounts of water application a Hunter Pro HC controller was install to manage each area efficiently and wirelessly, whilst allowing for future expansion of the system.
The system was installed by our engineers at the end of February, due to the winter weather still rolling in the start-up of all the stations was delayed until the spring. With warm weather now finally arriving our engineer has return to start-up all 14 stations ready for the warmer months ahead.
The installation engineers here at TCR Watering have recently completed the fitting of a large irrigation system supplied by a borehole, to a private property located near the historic town of Maidstone, Kent. The property has undergone significant re-landscaping with the introduction of two large lawns, vegetable garden with accompanying greenhouse, patio area and multiple flower beds. The system uses a Hunter Pro C controller which suited the client’s needs of customised scheduling, up to 6 hour run times, self diagnosis and the option of integrated of sensors. The vegetable plot was installed with micro sprinklers for an even distribution and driplines to the flowerbeds. The two large lawns we’re irrigated using a combination of RainBird 5004’s and Falcon 6504’s, the pipe work ran outside of the lawn with ducting branching off to each sprinkler at the edge of the lawn to avoid disruption to the newly laid turf.
Located near the historic market town of Haslemere, sits a beautiful property that’s undergone landscaping to the entirety of its grounds which surrounds a private lake, swimming pool and paved patios bordered by manicured lawns and tiered beds.
TCR Watering have been able to provide their expert knowledge and installation skills for this large property and are preparing for the installation in the coming days. The irrigation system will comprise of driplines and micro sprays to the beds and hedges to ensure even watering, driplines to individual trees to encourage deep root growth, dripline to pots and sprinklers to the lawns. To ensure effective coverage of the lawns, a combination of RainBird 5004’s and Hunter’s MP Rotator series’ are to be installed. To accommodate the many stations a Hunter HCC controller will be used which boats WiFi capabilities for irrigation management and can perform automatic, weather-based daily adjustments. The Hunter HCC Controller is decoder based which enables the client to expand the system in the future.