How to Unroll and Unkink Drip Irrigation Poly Tubing/Pipe
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
- Straightening out poly tubing can be incredibly frustrating. Adam shares and demonstrates tips and tricks to simplify unrolling and installing your poly tubing.
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Have you just received your order of drip irrigation supplies, and you’re ready to get started but unsure what to do with that tightly rolled coil of tubing? Are you worried the bands that kept it tightly coiled have caused kinks in the tubing? Or perhaps you have already experienced a bird’s nest tangle in your tubing and hope to avoid it in the future?
This video also covers the differences between kinks and dimples in the tubing so you can spot the difference. Not only that, but this video demonstrates how to get those dimples out of the tubing with only a minimum of effort.
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Thank you for the kind words! I'll pass them along to our photographer who chose the angles to show off the beautiful background.
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I have a new system. When the timer is running we hear a vey loud humming noise coming from the inside of the house pipes. Do we have too much water pressure in the house or was the timer/back flow/pressure adapter not installed in the correct order? We had someone do the connection.
@@DCEventphoto Apologies for the late reply on this! For some reason the API didn't notify us we had a comment like it usually does.
There are a few reasons you might hear humming from the pipes inside the house when the irrigation system is running -- happy to cover those below and then cover the proper order of connections just in case it's that (as that can indeed also cause similar sounds -- usually at the spigot, but not always).
-- High water pressure can cause this, particularly when coupled with loose pipes. Loose pipes can vibrate quickly and lead to a humming noise. This doesn't necessarily mean completely unsecured pipes, just loose in some places that they can vibrate (or vibrate against their fasteners if it's a little loose.
-- High water flow, similar to high water pressure, can also cause this. Not usually the case with a drip system since they're on the lower flow side of things, but possible if other house water fixtures are being used at the same time since they all share the same piping network.
-- Air in the pipes. This one is pretty common, air in pipes can cause noise when water flow forces the air through the pipes. Usually this can be remedied by "bleeding" the pipes. In this case bleeding would simply meaning opening removing the drip head assembly and allowing water to freely flow for a few moments. Air in the pipes will often be accompanied by some type of "water hammer." It may not be particularly loud or violent, but anything from a "thump" sound to actual hammer sound can indicate air.
-- Backflow preventers are pressure regulators can also cause this -- while the sound will usually be where they're located, that's not always the case and could be causing the sound to appear upstream somewhere (such as in the house piping).
I do think the head assembly parts are the right place to start, nice and easy to check and diagnose if it's one of them.
First, let's make sure they're in the correct order -- starting from the spigot, the order of parts should be:
Spigot --> Timer (optional, only if using one) --> Backflow Preventer (also called vacuum breaker) --> Filter --> Pressure Regulator --> Hose x Tubing Adapter (the part that connects the tubing to everything else).
If they're not in that order, first try re-arranging them and then give the system a test run (without any other water running in the house) and see if the sound ceases. If it does not cease, a quick elimination process might identify the culprit. First, try running it without the backflow preventer (make sure you don't have any fertilizer injectors connected when you do that part). Then, even if the sound stops, re-attach the backflow preventer and try it without the pressure regulator.
The results of those tests have a good chance of identifying what's causing the sound (if you haven't already fixed it, wish we'd gotten the notification when you commented a couple weeks ago!).
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Very helpful, thanks!
Any time! :)
Thank you
You're very welcome, and thank you for watching as well!
thanks for getting back to me. We ended up calling a plumber and installing a pressure reducing valve on the main. We were at over 100 PSI. The valve reduced it to 70. Even after the valve we still had the loud vibration sound. The only thing that helped is taking off the backflow preventer. In your mind, am I taking a chance of dirty water entering the household supply? Also, do you have a procedure for the end of the season!
You definitely want the backflow preventer on there -- even though the odds of contamination are low, they're not 0, so best to have one.
Were you using the brass one? If so, that could be the guilty part -- at higher pressure we've experienced some noise caused by that one as well. If you were using the brass one, reply here with your order number if you have it.
If you don't have the order number any more, contact us on our site (linked below) and let me know the email you used or the shipping address and I can search up the order and get a different one sent to you so you can have the protection without the sound :)
Here is the contact us link just in case: help.dripdepot.com/support/tickets/new -- you can just put "Attn Adam" or something similar in the title and I'll take it from there :)
Tell me again the order of the back-flow preventer, timer and hose reducer. If I order the timer from you how soon will it arrive?
The recommended order, starting at the spigot is:
_Spigot --> Timer (optiona) --> Backflow Preventer --> Filter --> Pressure Regulator --> Hose x Tubing Adapter --> Mainline Tubing Run_
Arrival time mostly depends on where you're at relative to our location -- we ship all orders we receive by 5:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m PST) the same day we receive them, so shipping time is very fast -- travel time depends on where you're at. We're in Southen Oregon, so orders going to Florida, for example, take longer than those gong to California.
my son-in-law bought the kit for father's day.
Perfect! I'm going to send out a replacement to that address -- I'll send the one that does better with high pressure :)
If you get a chance, edit the comment to remove the address -- you never know on the internet lol, that's why I never put our email address in the comments, I did one time and the amount of spam we got was crazy.
I'll get that order set, we'll have it en route either today or tomorrow morning, Brian will get an email with the tracking -- have a great evening out there!
Thank youuuuuuu
Any time, you're welcome!
Done
How do you repair a kink?
If it's a kink that won't work itself out in the sun, the best bet is to cut it out and then use a coupling to rejoin the two sections of tubing together. In most cases you could probably use the tubing without issue even with a kink, but a true kink (where the crease doesn't work itself out when expanding in the sun) is a weak point that could eventually fail so best to cut it out :)
Thanks,
As always, a sincere thank you to you too!
Heat gun?
We have seen folks use a heat gun (and hair dyers) to soften the tubing -- definitely take a cautious approach if you go that route, some heat guns can get hot enough (particularly at close range) to melt the tubing. Just enough to get soft and pliable is what you want with the fittings.
@@dripdepot Ok thank you. Sounds like hot water will work just fine.
@@JesusistheonetrueGod You bet! Leaving it in direct sunlight for a bit, in addition to hot water, will make it nice and easy to work with :)
@@dripdepot That sounds like a good idea. I've just got to finish digging around the trees so I can mulch them beforehand.
If there's dimples or kinks in the coil you're buying from the wrong company. I make these pipes for a living and we would scrap those coils.
Are you building LDPE or HDPE? With HDPE I could see no dimples, but with LDPE I'm not sure how it could be avoided without dimples and still make it small enough for reasonably priced transport (though kinks I agree, those should be scrapped as they actually weaken the tubing).
LDPE, the dimples are from the coiler pulling the pipe too tightly as it is wound or the straps being too tight. Both can be fixed @@dripdepot
@@vaughanOsaurus I think the ones we experience are mostly from the straps -- I've visited the production facility and didn't see dimples at the coiler, but I wasn't there when it got strapped, and we've seen some pretty tight straps (nice for transport no doubts, but does create dimples on some rolls).