Rain Bird 32ETI Easy to Install In-Ground Automatic Sprinkler System Kit

This product was simple to install. It just takes a few hours of manual labor. I believe it took me around 3 hours. then I spent another hour adjusting the sprinkler heads. Over the next few days, I continued to adjust the sprinkler heads until I got them exactly the way I wanted them to be. The adjustment for the heads isn't as simple as I'd like as one little tweak would sometimes send it further than desired but after some time I finally got how they were adjusting and it became easier. I did have some problems but was able to fix them myself. There were some leaks in some places when testing the system after installing. For starters around the faucet connection the connections had to be adjusted to stop the leaking. Then one of the sprinklers wasn't working. I dug it back up and it turned out it was leaking so I had to adjust those connections as well. I watched and monitored the sprinklers for the next few days. One of the sprinkler heads would not pop up. I would gently pull it up and it would work. Turned out it had gotten some dirt in it that made it stick so after all the dirt was cleared out it pops up every time. I've been using the sprinkler system for about a month and it is running great. I love the programmer. It was simple to program and it helps to have it automatically start watering my lawn twice a day. I just laid down new sod so having a system that waters the entire front yard without moving sprinklers around saves me time and ensures all of the sod gets thouroughly soaked. I purchased a splitter so that I can still have a hose attached to my outside faucet.I read all of the reviews before buying and some people said it's cheaply made and the hose won't last long....well, compared to the thousands it would cost to install a professional pvc sprinkler system this system saves money and does the job for which it is intended. The hose is made of plastic and of course it's buried under ground (except for the part near your faucet) so I can see it lasting for a few years. IMO, a couple hundred bucks instead of thousands when I just spent thousands on new sod will give me time to save up for a more professional system by the time this one wears out. All in all, I'm very happy with it. My sod is filling in nicely. Everything is watered even the flower beds without having to lift a finger...well now that the installation is done.

The value is amazing - this is working as well as any commercially installed sprinkler and cost less than $150 for us to purchase and install ourselves.Takes a few hours to install - your biggest time spent is digging.Challenges = you don't know exactly how the spray patterns and distance will work until you hook it up and turn it on, so you have to cut the hose and set it up before you know with certainty that you are getting the coverage you need.You only get one straight connector (to splice together hose if you need to add length to a section). We bought a couple of universal connectors at our local Lowes/Home Depot and those worked fine.Props = Rainbird customer service is great! They answer your call and questions before you even purchase the product. I had measurements of the yard, plus readings of water pressure and water flow (gpm) and they helped me with specifics about which sprinkler nozzles to use and how it would work if I laid it out a certain way.Bonus: We made it work with lower water flow. We have water pressure that matches the required specs (55 psi) but lower flow than they recommend. We measured 4.8 gpm using their method of timing the fill of a 5 gallon bucket. The specs require minimum 6 gpm. Our solution is to only use 5 sprinkler heads instead of 6. And use a few of the .75 gpm spray nozzles, and a few 1.0 gpm nozzles. It works, spray and coverage are great, you just have to do the math and lay it out properly. The 5 heads are covering 1200+ sq ft of lawn with overlapping spray in most areas.Because of the low flow we can't be running a dishwasher or taking a shower at the same time as watering, but we program the watering to happen early in the morning and it works great. So if you don't have 6 gpm, don't give up on this! You can still make this product work, you just need to be careful how you set it up.Would definitely recommend. Customer service is great. Install is straightforward (just be ready to dig your lines in whatever type of soil you have). Programming automatic sprikling is easy and then you can just let it do its thing.