Surface Drip Pipe

Garden Systems Surface Drip is the drip watering pipe for you if you do not want to bury an irrigation pipe in your garden. Can be used for a multitude of drip watering areas around the garden such as all your beds and borders, vegetable area and short lengths of hedge.

Drip irrigation is also often referred to as trickle.

Surface Drip pipe is black in colour and has drippers inserted by the factory every 30cm. These are INSIDE the wall of the plastic pipe so all you see on the outside is a small hole.

The dripper have a special labyrinth in them for the water to work its way through and this not only ensures an even output over 40 metres but also encourages any small particles to be washed out of the drippers by turbulent flow.

We recommend that the Surface Drip pipe is used on the surface or covered with mulch. If you wish to bury your irrigation pipe use the Leaky Pipe.

Surface Drip pipe is easy to lay out and is easily connected to the simple fittings that are pushed together. Hose or pipe is used to connect all the lines of Drip pipe up to form a system. We find that pegging it with the pipe anchors every 1.5m helps with the installation.

Very simple to automate with our wide range of timers and we recommend that you use a pressure regulator to make sure high pressure does not become a nuisance. Fertiliser can easily be introduced to your Drip system with one of our feeders. Please note any fertiliser can be used but make sure it is fully soluble and use a filter.

Often used in greenhouses and polytunnels on beds systems as the pipe can easily be moved to one side for cultivations and crop clearance.

Although Surface Drip pipe will tolerate a small level of impurities clean water should be used. If your water could be of an insufficient quality use a filter. For specialist advice call us on 01473 400101.

We have found that over an extended period of years especially in hard water areas a build up of calcium can occur around the outlet this will not normally stop the dripper from working but may slow it down so running the system for longer as the years go past can help. The amount of water applied can be checked with a water meter. If for any reason drippers gets blocked a new dripper can be inserted by cutting out a section of pipe and inserting a suitable section of drip pipe with the dripper in the correct place.

Surface Drip pipe is 14mm internal 16mm external and is known as a size 16. Use our barbed fittings to fit to standard hose and pipe. The size of standard 1/2" hose we call size 16. Do not use cheap hose as it will not last.