DIY Sprinkler System: Get Pro-Quality Lawn Irrigation and Save Thousands

Want a sprinkler system without spending a fortune? In this video, I’ll show you an easy, step-by-step method to get a DIY irrigation solution up and running at a fraction of the cost. Using affordable sprinklers from Lowe’s, standard hoses, and simple timers, you can avoid the cost and headaches that underground systems can cause—no digging required here!

You’ll learn:

– What sprinklers I recommend purchasing
– How to configure those sprinklers
– Techniques I use to place sprinklers in hard to reach parts of the lawn

By following these simple steps, you can transform your lawn’s appearance and keep it looking its best, no matter what challenges the weather throws at you. Whether you’re a homeowner on a budget or a DIY enthusiast, this easy, low-cost solution could revolutionize your yard care.

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Recommended sprinkler
02:47 Sprinkler placement
04:27 Timer configuration
04:57 Sprinkler configuration
07:53 Hard to reach places
10:35 Sprinklers in action

Orbit H20 sprinkler: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Orbit-H2O-6-5000-sq-ft-Rotating-Spike-Lawn-Sprinkler/3678506

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[Music] Hey guys, Cosmo here. So, today I’m going to show you my sprinkler system setup, uh, which is nothing fancy, but I feel like a lot of you guys could probably replicate it and maybe save yourself thousands and thousands of dollars. Now, listen, this is not a professionally installed irrigation system. This is something that I put together to avoid having to pay for a professionally installed irrigation system. You don’t have to dig. It only costs a couple hundred bucks. And assuming that you’ve got the right kind of setup with your yard, the way it’s configured with mulch beds, etc., you can get full coverage. So, let’s take a look at what I got set up here. I’ll put a link to one of these down below, but these are the sprinkler heads that I use. I think they’re 20 bucks at Lowe’s. The Orbits, I think they’re called like the Orbits H2O 360 or something like that. They have different settings on them for like small, flat, vertical, large. They also have these the diffusers at top to where you can kind of hone in. Once you’ve picked the setting that you want, you can diffuse the water a little bit. I almost exclusively use the small setting on these things just because I’ve found in my own testing that it gives you the best coverage from the head of the sprinkler outward. some of the like the large setting for instance, it tends to shoot the water just a little too far uh with a little too much pressure and it doesn’t get as good a coverage, at least not consistent coverage um from the sprinkler head to the end point. The other thing with the small setting is that if you’re running multiple sprinklers at once around your home off the spigots, you’re better off with the small setting. So, you’re pulling less water pressure overall. And then lastly too, as I’ll show you guys here in a second, if you’re daisy chaining a couple of these things together, which you can you can can actually they come installed with cap here. Man, look at this bermuda crawling into the bed. They come installed with a cap here that you can remove and then you can just simply hook another hose up to the other side of this thing and run another one of these sprinklers off of it. Um, I’ve done that in a couple places throughout the yard. Uh, I only recommend running two together unless you just have insane water pressure. For me at least, I can only get away with hooking two up at a time on small setting. But still, if I do that, I still get good coverage uh with the sprinklers. So, let’s let’s look at the rest of the system I’ve got set up here. If you have a decent amount of mulch beds around your yard, a lot of times you can get away with not installing a full system. So here, what we’ll call the front left yard, I’ve got this first sprinkler head covers this entire area all the way to the street. Next, I have my I should say front right sprinkler. Um, again, just one sprinkler head tucked into the mulch bed. And what I’ve done is I actually run the hose back along the edge of the home. In a lot of instances, it actually runs I don’t know if you can see back in there. Well, you can’t really see it because it’s mostly covered by mulch, but the the sprinkler hose runs all the way back here past system to spigots. Now, it’s a little messy back here. Sorry. It just is what it is. You can’t even see this area though because I’ve got it closed in with this Ailia here and this tea olive. So, I mean, it’s just kind of where the the magic happens, right? So, back here, I’m able to, you know, swap to whichever sprinkler I want running. So, if I wanted to run that front one, I’d plug this in. Now, know what you’re probably thinking. from Cosmo. This is a lot of work to have to switch these sprinklers up. Eh, it’s a couple. I have seven sprinklers. It’s not fully automatic in so far as I don’t have some kind of app set up. I You can buy things that would let you hook multiple hoses up and run them off your phone if you wanted to. But what I do, keep it simple. And what I’ve done in the past is I use these little Orbits timers. And you can take one of these timers, two of these timers, and hook them up to something here like a splitter. Again, nothing fancy. They hook up just like that. And what that’ll let you do, at least on either side of your house, is get, you know, three or four different hoses set up on timers. So, next I’ve got this side one here. This covers all the way up to the edge of those barberries and over. Um, now you can they can shoot a little too far at times depending on what setting you have them on. If that happens, these all have little diffusers that you can twist and turn to give you more of a diffused spray so you’re not shooting quite as far. That side sprinkler will cover pretty much the entire sideyard back into here some. Now, here around the corner, I’ve got another one. And you guys can see what I’ve done here. I mean, I just I basically run these all around my mulch beds here. What you can do with these sprinklers is actually daisy chain them together. So, what I’ve done here is I’ve taken the cap off, which is normally on the end here, run one hose on the one side, another hose on the other. So, when I turn this hose on, it actually cuts that head on and see I’ve run run the hose back this way. Now, this was under underground. It got pulled up the other day. And it hooks up to this one here, which I just have here spiked behind my grill. With these on, I’ll get coverage all the way to that red bud center yard back this way. And last, as far as we’ll call these, you know, interior sprinklers go, I have one more over here. Um, now I actually have a 3/4 inch hose running to this one. Uh, if you run 3/4 inch hoses to these instead of/ inch, you’ll get a better pressure. So, if you got a spot where you want to get a little more distance, a little more coverage, that’s something that you can do. This hose will get there’s some L cross over here uh to the right and it’ll cut over top here of the red bud cover me all the way around to the sideyard here and then back and get the remainder of the area that that front hose over there in the corner doesn’t hit. Look at this squirrel or something. Took liberties with the yard right there. Nothing we can do about that. So that’s the interior route. So yeah, to count them off, one here was 20 bucks. Second one here for this other side of the front is what? 40 bucks. I’ve got one here on the side. That’s $60. I really need to get that Bermuda out of the beds. It’s getting out of control this weekend. Um I’ve got So that’s pretty much the front taken care of with those three. I’ve got then this one here. It’s the fourth. So 80 this one 100 and then over there 120. So I’m able to do, you know, the whole perimeter around my house except for the far back for 120 bucks plus the cost of the hoses. Now the problem I ran into when I set this up was that I couldn’t get coverage in the far back. It’s in a situation where I couldn’t hit this top area with the sprinklers that were just coming off the mulch beds from around the house. So, that’s where I had to get a little creative. I decided to run mulch beds along the edge of my property line. What that allowed me to do was run a third hose that actually is a 3/4 hose, fairly thick. I actually came in here and pulled up just a little bit of the grass in a straight line and ran the hose under the grass here. Put it back down. Can’t even tell I did it now. Did it a couple years ago. And then this hose runs, you maybe see it there, just on the edge of the mulch bed. It runs all the way up to the back. And that’s a little feral back here. Sorry. What I’ve got back here is a setup where I can either run that red hose into my drip irrigation line system, which I ran drip irrigation through all the border plants here through the whole back area or which I have it set up right now. I can run it into the sprinkler. So that’s what one, two, three, four, five, six. So this is seventh sprinkler right here. So, at 140 bucks worth of sprinklers and like the sprinkler over here, I’ve daisy chained this one. Um, I definitely would recommend 3/4 in hoses if you’re going to try to daisy chain more than one of these together and to make sure that you run them on the small setting, uh, which will minimize the amount of water that each one’s putting out and maximize pressure to both hoses. So run it to here and I dip that hose back into the wood somewhere where you can’t see it and then you know second one right here. So yeah, that’s my lowcost sprinkler setup. Couple hundred worth of sprinkler heads, some hoses, and a little bit of patience. There’s no need to pay a company to come out, dig up your yard, pay them I mean I don’t want to pay somebody thousands of dollars to dig holes in my yard. I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is one of those circumstances where good enough is the enemy of perfection. Hope this video helped some of you guys out. And uh let me know below in the comments if you’ve got a similar kind of setup in your house. I’m always interested in figuring out ways that I can make my system here better. And see you guys in the next video. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]