Habitech Drip Irrigation Faucet Adapter Kit: Connect 1/2" Tubing to Faucet or Hose, Backflow Preventer, Filter, Pressure Regulator - No Assembly Required

This unit controls the flow of my drip system to several potted trees on my patio. ensuring even watering.

It works very well.

We have underground dripline all over our property, and it is the pressure compensating type of dripline with emitters built into the tubing every 12 inches. We have always hooked up this tubing to underground valves that deliver water from the buried pvc line that runs through the property, but when a valve wears out or breaks it is very expensive to have a landscape company replace it (over $400). And in the meantime, we have no water to the zone serviced by that valve. So, this drip irrigation faucet adapter gives us a great option to still get water into our dripline tubing, but with a garden hose instead.You just hook up the adapter on one end to a normal garden hose, and hook up a stub of dripline tubing that extends above ground onto the barb of the adapter on the other end. There are instructions include with the adapter, with helpful diagrams. The only tricks are that the instructions say if it is hard to get the tubing over the barb, heat the tubing. That will work if you have a portable heat gun or if the tubing is in the hot sun, but what I use in the shade or cooler weather is just a little WD-40 sprayed onto the bard and the tubing slides right on. The other trick is that to tighten this connection you *unscrew* the collar over the barb. That's right, by unscrewing the collar you draw it back over the spot where the tubing is on the barb. The instructions cover this, but I'm glad I read the instructions to get this straight before installation. Once installed, the adapter works like a charm. It lowers the water pressure from the garden hose (probably 50-70 psi) down to 25 psi, but that is enough pressure to get the drip emitters flowing and that way high water pressure won't damage your tubing or connections or emitters. Once you're done you could leave the adapter on the tubing until the next time you want to turn on the water, or it's easy to completely remove the adapter and bring it indoors. This is a great little item for the price, and it is a much, much cheaper option that valves to get water into underground dripline. Now we can install underground dripline anywhere where a garden hose will reach, instead of being limited by the existing valves.

I just bought the third to put irrigation on another side of my house. They have lasted me for a few years now and never leak. I was looking into other options but it’s not worth it, I rather spend more money and not have to deal with returning because of leaks etc.I highly recommend it.

This is a part we needed to complete our drip irrigation system