If you're looking for an efficient way to water large areas that uses 20% less water than noisy, impact-driven rotor heads, you’ve found the right supplier. At Irrigation Tech, we specialize in providing high-quality, quiet, gear-driven rotor solutions that will keep your lawn healthy in the early morning hours while you are trying to sleep.
Sprinkler head technology has advanced significantly over the last several years. Newer heads offer more uniform water distribution, improved precipitation rates, fewer repairs, and significant water savings. That’s money in your pocket - and if being GREEN is important to you, a step in the right direction.
More Efficient Water Use - Most existing irrigation systems have pop-up spray head zones located somewhere in the yard. These are small heads that discharge a mist when the zone is turned on. Spray heads have been replaced by more efficient pop-up rotating stream heads that move in a full or partial circular pattern and use 30% less water to more effectively cover landscape areas that are too irregular, narrow, or small to be served by larger, gear-driven heads.
Less Runoff - One of the biggest problems with spray heads is their extremely high precipitation rate. They put the water down faster than most soils can absorb it.
If water is put down faster than the ground can absorb it, then the excess water moves on the surface to places where it doesn’t belong (i.e. , the driveway or street gutters).
More Reliable - Spray heads have other problems as well. If a zone of spray heads isn’t popping up all the way or the heads aren’t spraying as far as they used to - or as far as they are supposed to, switching to rotating stream sprinkler heads can solve the problem. This is because rotating stream nozzles require less water for the same coverage area, reducing pressure losses for the zone, leaving more pressure to pop the heads all the way up and throw water as far as it’s supposed to go.
Works Better Large Sprinkler Heads in the Same Zone - Additionally, some of our customers (whose systems were not installed by us) have large rotors and spray heads mixed in the same zone. This wastes water and is unhealthy for turf watered by spray heads. This is because spray heads have a precipitation rate four times greater than large rotor heads - so the turf watered by spray heads gets four times more water than the turf covered by the larger heads. Rotating stream sprinkler heads can resolve this problem because they have the same precipitation rate as the large gear-driven heads, ensuring that smaller areas once covered by spray heads receive no more water than they need.
Easy to Install the First Time or Anytime - New systems installed by Irrigation Tech use pop-up rotating stream sprinkler heads. And existing systems with spray heads can be easily converted to rotating stream sprinkler heads for 30% water savings during a quick service call by simply changing the nozzle.
There are many problems that stream rotors eliminate in new systems and can solve in existing systems. If your existing system has one or more of these problems, contact us for help.
We use sprinkler heads manufactured by Hunter Industries and Rain Bird®.