I hope Baz's account has not been hacked or, alternatively, that the problem gets fixed.
Our place needs irrigation system improvements. We have about 0.25 acres and no irrigation system. The house has only two hose bibs (not enough) and we are tired of watering everything with a ganglion of garden hoses. We seem to be constantly expanding garden areas of vegetables, herbs and flowers. We don't care too much for lawn grass but we are likely to continue making improvements with various plantings. I need to improve/create an irrigation system. This is the start of a research effort to plan for that. I am retired now, and will probably do the work myself.
The first pic includes the front door area and garage. The water supply line enters the house under this flower bed, under the window on the left. It looks like the irrigation system will need to come out through the foundation and then under the sidewalk/walkway. I suppose I would drill through the foundation without disturbing the rebar, and I don't know how to do this. I also do not know how to run this irrigation line under the walkway.
If an above-ground manifold system will be needed, then I suppose it would go into the garage in this pic. I presume this would mean more concrete drilling of the garage slab.
The other two pics show the back yard were most of the current garden areas are located. It would be nice to have spigots in those areas so that we could eliminate a couple hundred feet of garden hoses going everywhere. Our climate is mild, but temperatures can get into the twenties and high teens occasionally in winter. Lines underground would be fine but spigots poking up out of the ground could potentially freeze. Perhaps I need advice from a landscape construction outfit. Sure, I could just contract it all out but I do have the time to do this myself. But I lack the expertise at the moment. This is where your advice comes in.
