HOZELOCK - Drip Irrigation Kit 25 Pots : Ideal for Pots, Window Boxes and Vegetable Gardens, Easy to Use, Supplied with 25m of Hose and a Timer for Precise, Independent Watering [2804 1240]

Being able to set it to water at sunrise and/or sunset is very useful. Setting it up could be a bit fiddly for some, but I had no problem. Take your time and be patient. There are plenty of additional accessories available for this system and they all work very well. One issue was a horrible loud noise that resonated throughout the house. Initially I thought that is was the timer, but it wasn't. It was the pressure regulator. This is a very simple design and the valve inside it charters. Maybe it might be worth Hozelock redesigning it to eliminate the noise? Anyway, the fix is to remove it entirely, remove the rubber seal from the irrigation hose connector and replace it with the filter from the regulator, making sure that the dome on the filter points towards the control valve. Its then possible to regulate the water flow by means of the supply tap. The operation is then silent.

It works. But the drippers are too fast - 4L/h which means 1.5 cups of water get dumped into each flower-pot in a 5 minute watering, which is more than can be absorbed by all but the biggest pots, so you end up with most of the water leaking out of the bottom of the pots. The kit is ok to get you started. But you will soon be spending money on extra parts. The good news is that the 3mm and 13mm pipes are quite standard, so you can buy cheaper generic and 3rd party add ons.

Easy to build after some planning to be sure all plants are watered. Good quality equipment easy to set up

A little disappointed, poor assembly instructions which took a fair time to do. Quality just ok but not perfect. Item overpriced in my view and not worth the money.

Absolutely pointless. First of all, every connector leaks and drips. Second, the timer to tap connector (female to male) comes apart when water is turned on. I wanted to be able to go away for a week and not worry about the plants, but I can’t donthat with this useless product. Finally, before buying this product I checked with Hozelock HQ that it would work from a water butt. It doesn’t. Very shoddy, poorly made and ill-fitting product. I shall never use Hozelock again.

The Hozelock kit proved a very welcome birthday gift. My son had considered buying it for himself.

Great product, works just as expected. Took a little thought to set up but once I’d worked that out it was very simple. Setting up the timer is easy too but don’t make the mistake I did in thinking that the ‘7’ means 7 day a week watering, it means once a week, plants nearly died of thirst!

I have installed this kit in my garden to water 22 pots (currently and a wall rockery. Positive points: When finally installed and working it does exactly as claimed. The included timer is simple and gives several alternative watering programs. We have had a hosepipe ban here in Cornwall since spring 2022 but this kind of drip irrigation system is one of the few exemptions to the ban. The fittings are all mostly push fit with screw fit for timer to the tap so no tools are required. The small pipe fittings may prove difficult for people with arthritic or weak hands. Negative points: 1. The instructions are a joke !. The photos are so small you can't make out the detail and there is insufficient corresponding written explanation. I installed the drippers in the 13mm pipe the wrong way around at first and had to remove and turn around to the correct way. There is no further detailed information on the Hozelock website and the photos there are no better. The pressure reducer required an extra rubber washer to seal it to my tap to stop it leaking. Fortunately I carry lots of spare bits and pieces. There is no information in the instructions but I suspect if you install the pipework without the pressure reducer it will probably result in a burst pipeline. There should be a strong warning about this. 2. If your water pressure is good like mine you may find the pressure reducer oscillates producing a slight water hammer in the pipework which can reverberate through your house. Solution is to restrict the water flow to the timer or better still just add more drip points. The extra flow seems to reduce the likelihood of this happening. 3. I had to buy more 13mm pipe (25m) and more drippers but there was plenty of 4mm pipe. The extra packs you can buy are ridiculously expensive for what they are. I found you can buy exactly the same spike drippers from another company at more than 50% lower cost. So Hozelock are buying them in and making more than 100% profit on them. Most of the Hozelock add-on packs are £9.99 or thereabouts and are not worth the money and you can get the same or equivalent elsewhere much cheaper. Overall i'm very pleased with my system but as a retired engineer and experienced DIY'er I get frustrated when company's don't produce satisfactory installation instructions which would cost no extra for them to produce.

Irrigation de plantes et de légumes.

Le descriptif n'est pas bon. Sur la fiche je devais avoir un programmateur avec fonction crépusculaire et aube, et je n'ai qu'un programmateur 24h. Je vais m'en contenter mais c'est limite.

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