Welcome to Water Works Irrigations & Illuminations Ltd.
Canada's Largest Lawn Sprinkler Site
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Our credentials include: member of Landscape Ontario, member of CNLA, Certified Intelli-Sense™ Satellite Irrigation Controller Installer, and a Team TORO Professional Contractor.

Our systems are well planned out to reduce both water consumption and unnecessary sprinkler heads.

Welcome to our Do it Yourself Seminar

There is a lot of work to putting a system in, but if you are an avid do-it-yourselfer you may have the skills to put a system in yourself. The most important part is getting the particulars right. Such as gallons per minute available from your water source, be it a pump or city water supply. Size of the lawn as a whole, and divided up into sections.

This will give us the information needed to determine the number and type of sprinkler heads required to water each area. Matched precipitation is important also, this will put the same amount of water on all parts of the lawn so you don't have dry spots and wet spots.

If you are serious about tackling this project, but are unsure of where to start, we can (when given the required information) design a system for you and provide instructions on how to do each step of the installation process. If this interests you Contact us @ 905 623-9165

In this Seminar, you will learn:

• Rotor Heads Versus Spray Heads
• Head to Head Spacing Including:Square Spacing, Special-Pattern Spacing, Odd-Shaped Areas
• Timers & Timer Location
• Valve Assembly
• Drip Products
• Zones
• Layout The Pipe
• Trenching By Hand Vs. Trenching With A Trencher
• How To Flush The System To Clear Debris
• Check Your System Operation, Zone-by-Zone

Before The Seminar, You Will Need To Do Some Measuring:

• Using your tape measure, outline and measure your property accurately according to scale, laying out the locations of your home, sidewalks, grass, etc.
  Measuring Your Yard - The first step to designing your sprinkler system is to measure your property.

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• Step 2. Measure the distance around the house and any landscaping you might have around the house, and add the measurements on the graph paper.
• Step 3. You will need to figure out where the house sits on the lot, and that can be done by the following, Measure from the front right corner of the house to right side property line and mark that on the paper, Then measure from the front right corner of the house to the street and mark that on the graph paper.
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CONSIDER THESE WHEN DRAWING YOUR PROPERTY:

• Outline your house, garage and other structures.
• Show walks, drives, slabs, patios and surfaces.
• Locate and identify trees and major obstacles.
• From the outside of your house, measure outward to define your perimeters.
• Identify any slopes on your property.
• Locate ground cover, grass, flower beds and landscaping.
• Identify the size and location of the water meter (or pump) and main line.
• Re-check your measurements at several different points.
• Make sure your drawing accurately indicates the true dimensions.

• Flow & Pressure Gauge. If you do not own a flow & pressure gauge, ask your local rental center. We have these available as well. Gather Required Information.
• Water pressure can vary from home to home, even on the same street. So it's important that you take a measurement at your own home. If you push your system beyond its capacity, the danger is that it can create water hammer and costly damage to your piping system. Also, if you exceed the pressure or water flow (GPM) you have available, your system will not function or work efficiently. We recommend using the flow and pressure gauge method because it's fast and easy.
  
• DETERMINE THE DIAMETER OF THE WATER SUPPLY LINE Call your local water company or measure your supply line (the pipe leading from the water meter to your house).
• A certificate of survey of your property, which is available from the city if you don't have one, Otherwise you will need to measure your yard following the simple steps below.
  
• Call your local water company or the proper municipal authority for information on building codes or permits required for the installation of underground sprinkler systems.

Warning
Personal injury may result from trenching over buried power lines or gas lines. Before digging or trenching, check with your local utility companies to identify any buried cables, pipe or gas lines.

This is how much water is available with a working pressure of 40 PSI or the higher reading that you recorded. (Minimum operating pressure for most sprinklers is 35 PSI.)

If you use a different size bucket, time how long it takes to fill it. Convert this to gallons per minute using the following formula:

60 ÷ Seconds x Gallons

For example: A two-gallon bucket that fills in 15 seconds means the available flow is 8 gallons per minute.

60 ÷ 15 x 2 = 8 GPM (gallons per minute)