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.

Very good sprinkler set to keep the grass going in summer. Easy to install. I did have to limit to 5 sprinkler heads to keep the water pressure strong enough, it depends on local water pressure. Great set.

In short, if you want to save yourself thousands of dollars on a professional system and spend about half a day installing an OKAY system yourself (it is not without flaws) then definitely try this.The kit here is more like a starter kit, because if you have even a quarter of an acre, you're going to need at least one more but better to use 2 or 3 more for the best results. Reason being because if your water pressure is not insanely amazing to begin with, the more sprinkler heads you use per single line, the less performance you'll see. In fact, I have 3 total systems myself. Initially we went with one to see how it worked. Even though it isn't flawless, we added more, as well as had to get spare parts to replace pieces that were broken by winter snowplowing or being driven over, or just general leaking. Even though we have had to replace a few pieces, we will still never have spent as much on this as a professional system.INSTALLATION:Out of the box, it is pretty easy to get this going - the only other tools you might need include a shovel, something to cut the tubing with, and perhaps a lighter to help you fit the plastic pieces into the tubing. You will first want to test your water pressure so that you know how many heads you can really use and which nozzles to attach when you start. I will say, from the start, the plastic parts leak right from the controller. The kit comes with plumbing tape, but it doesn't help. Once you decide generally where your system is going to be laid out, you'll want to try and uncoil the tubing and take out the want for it to re-coil up, so we straighted them out while weighed them down with blocks. We did this for a while out in the sun which seemed to work best. We didn't use the test-setup stakes that they provide, but it is a good idea to use them if you are unsure of where everything will end up.If you don't have a trencher or want to rent one, the best way to install this is with two people. One person can use a large flat shovel to kind of slice into the earth so that you can lift out that piece, and while you're holding it up out of the ground, the second person can tuck the tubing down into the space before the person with the shovel lets go and you re-cover that section. It does take hours to get through a large yard doing it this way, but worth it because in the end you can't even tell the earth was disturbed and once it is finished you can run the sprinkler and the grass heals itself pretty easily.QUALITY:As I said before, the parts essentially leak right out of the box. But for the price and ease of use, we deal with it. However, it seems that sometimes they work great, other times one of the heads will stay mostly down and just leak everywhere. It seems to be a water pressure issue, but sometimes it happens and other times they go off just fine with no human intervention. Other times, I have to go out and physically lift the offending sprinkler head long enough that the rest of the system pressure builds and all of them hold themselves up together as a good little sprinkler family. All of the systems except the one that we only installed 3 heads on do this. So for us, that is 2 of 3. Again not sure if it is the systems fault or more my water pressure, so I don't complain too much.As I said, the more heads you add to a system, the less performance you'll get, so we have 3 systems, two are on the left side of my driveway and one is on the right side. I only have one hose hookup in the front, and one in the backyard, so the system that covers the lawn on the smaller right side actually covers the entire backyard and the front on that side. Because of this, we purchased extra hoseline for that second system. Again, this can be contributing to the pressure issues we have, but it was really the only way we thought it could work. There was no way to place the hose underneath the driveway so this just has to do.We have hard and cold winters here, and normally we take the controllers inside and off of the spigots so that nothing happens to them. This year, we didn't bother, and we didn't even blow out the system. They work just the same this year, so it didn't seem to affect them by not bringing them in or winterizing the lines. That is impressive.CONTROLS:The controls themselves are pretty intuitive but rather basic. Of course, cannot complain for the ease of installation, and the low price, it does more than what I really need it to do which is schedule at least 2 separate watering calendars per unit. In addition to the basic controls, there is also an option to WATER NOW which is nice. I use this often when I am trying to test the pressure and figure out what is going on. The only annoying thing is that there is no water sensor so of course, if you have them scheduled to go off, they're going off no matter what, and your neighbors will laugh at you when it is downpouring and your sprinklers are going off all the same. I try to be mindful of the forecast so that I can just switch them to "off" when I know it is going to storm, but then it is harder for me to remember to switch them back ON after the weather clears!OVERALL:I am really impressed with these kits for the price. Yes, they will be better if you have more systems and do not exhaust the sprinkler heads, but there are plenty of workarounds for this and overall I really would recommend this for the homeowner who is handy enough, isn't afraid to put in a hard day's work, and wants to save some money. It has made a HUGE difference in the look and health of my lawn having this system in place.

bought 3 of these and they work great. i used clamps around the connections to assure no leaks and sure enough there are no leaks!!

I eventually purchased enough of these kits to create 5 watering zones. I installed them during the construction of my new house. Each zone has 6 sprinkler heads and one controller. I built a header and connected all 5 controllers to the header. This may seem like the cumbersome way to create a watering system but it is much less expensive and controllable without all the components for a standard watering system. I would highly recommend this product.