I tried Amazon, which offers a 1994 5th edition and a different ISBN
#0963509608. It unfortunately seems to be a hardcover, $59 book. Looks pretty
complete, though.
Then there was the promising "Simplified Irrigation Design". But it was also a
hardcover book, and $50.
Why do you suppose that this field doesn't support paperback books?
I'll check the library!
Ken Landaiche
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At 10:39 25/08/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Can anyone recommend a good book on designing a underground lawn sprinkler
>system?
>
Try "Turf Irrigation Manual" by James A Watkins (previous Director of
Training for Weather-matic) ISBN 74-31280. It doesn't leave many stones
unturned...
My copy is a 1990 5th printing, it may have been revised since, but you'll
find more than you can want in it for irrigating your lawn. When you've
finished you'll be looking to build a golf course so you can irrigate it.
Someone else mentioned flexible pipe (MDPE or HPPE in UK, don't know what
you call it in US) but it's worth considering. Mainly because it comes in
rolls and cuts down on the number of joints and goes round corners better.
As well as compression fittings you can use electrofusion joints so that
can give you a whole new world of essential tools and skills to investigate!
Good luck,
Nick Brearley
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