Under Deck System to catch water
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Lawn Irrigation System using a water pillow feedback?
Comments (5)Hi Lehual Thanks for the feedback. I need in the range of 14GPM and 45psi. I'll be honest I have slacked on picking a pump. I just don't have a lot of knowledge about them. So if you have a suggestion I'd love to hear it. I'm putting in a rainbird system so I have rotor and popup heads. It will have 10 zones with no more than 4 rotary per zone or 7 popup per zone. I believe I will need on average 12-14GPM. Rain bird designed the system for me so that is where I'm getting the 45psi needed for the rotor heads and 30psi for the popup. Ha you are right I have been enamored by the pillow idea and that might be why I didn't find any info out there no one has been stupid enough to do it. My thought about using the pillow will be I will only water the front ward during slow rainfall. I'll have about 2641G (10,000L) of water and at 14GPM I'll have 188 minutes to water or 18 minutes per zone. I only have 4 front yard zones and only 3 really need water. The pillow will be under my deck so its not very accessible for animals to come and have a drink (or at least I hope). That brings up a good point to make sure I put rodent repellant around the pillow often. Plus it will sit on a mat on the ground. I'm glad you made me think about all this. I think I might have not put enough thought into this system. Maybe the best idea is to only put it in the front yard that way the water will last longer. Still looking for feedback if anyone else has some pointer good or bad. Thanks Kevin...See MoreAm I over watering or under watering my Weeping Norway Spruce?
Comments (19)Dave--(or anyone else?): I am really confused by these "weeping" Norway spruce cultivars. You show one picture of a 'Reflexa' that was not staked but is growing erect, then another picture of the same kind of tree that had to be staked. So, does this tree grow erect sometimes, and not all the time? As for the P. abies 'Frohburg' I find confusing statements. You say it needs to be staked or it will grow prostrate. Iseli nursery, and a couple of other places on-line, says it is an upright grower. Elsewhere I see a cultivar name P. abies 'Frohburg Prostrata,' with the 'Prostrata' sugggesting a flopping tree. So what am I supposed to think? Now in the Gotelli collection at the National Arboretum in DC they have two P. abies 'Inversa' trees. Both of these have picturesque irregular habits, but they are definately not prostrate. One, or I think both, have multiple erect trunks growing upright with severely pendulous side branches. I would like to grow one of these, but several sources say they will not grow upright. I have also seen another P. abies 'Inversa,' or so it is labelled, in the courtyard of the Winterthur museum in Delaware. This tree is also growing upright without any staking. And there is another similar tree growing prominently in the National Memorial Park in Fairfax, VA, but this tree has no label at all. I don't know if you have seen my postings in the trees forum under the topic "Large Willow" where I comment on the rampant confusion about golden weeping willows, but I may be even more confused and frustrated in trying to get information about the growth habit of these so-called weeping varieties of NS. I want to grow one or more, but what do I buy? And from whom? Are those I saw labelled 'Inversa' actually something that I can buy as 'Inversa," or is that an incorrect name? And this 'Frohburg' thing? Is there a 'Frohburg' that grows erect, and then another that is 'Frohburg Prostrata' that must always be staked--or which is more properly meant to grow along the ground. Of course, I assume that any of these that are potentially erect growers probably must be staked for a time, but from what I have seen with my own eyes (at the Nat Arb, and at Winterthur, and at the Nat Mem Park), at least one, and maybe more than one of these cultivars, can grow on their own after a period of time being staked, in at least some irregular erect fashion. So, is 'Inversa' one of these? Or 'Frohburg' or what? I have seen them, want one, but what one, or ones is/are it/they?? H E L P!! this is driving me nuts!! --Spruce...See MoreWater-tank ('box') design for gravity-feed water system - HELP
Comments (8)Joel, epoxy is inert and more stable timewise than concrete or even cross linked polyethelene. Keep in mind that you want to use a Marine grade epoxy like West Systems. If you do not want to use epoxy, if you clean and prep the tank really well, wash it down with muratic acid, you can then coat the tank with a bonding agent, and trowel on a parge coat of acrylic and fiber reinforced topping cement. Mix it up thick and stiff. You need to trowel it, not pour it. To get a smooth surface, keep trowelling and polishing the coat until it is rock hard. That 120 gallons that Canadians use is just suburban use, and does not include farm irrigation water. The trick is to use the 80 or 120 gallon figure as an estimate to determine cistern size. Four homes sharing a 600 gallon tank, even though it is refilled during the day, is small if there are more than two people in each home. You may want to consider irrigating at night, or adopting less consumptive irrigation methods like drip....See MoreRainEscape/DrySnap Under Decking system
Comments (5)I'm considering such a system, too. Looking at DrySnap, Underdeck Oasis and just added Inside Out to the list. As far as i can tell they are similar except for materials used. I would love to get some feedback on any of these underdeck systems. I am most interested in performance, minimizing trapped moisture (hence mildew, rot etc.) It's going under Trex. Thanks for any opinions....See Morejohn_hyatt
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