Had not though of the low voltage lighting, but then this is just a flower bed on the side of the house, and I could always run low voltage wire differently in the future.
My main purpose here was that this 3/4" latteral supplying the new raised flower bed could also lead to flowers in the back yard. I wanted to keep the pipe in the ground, so I had to tunnel under the sides of the flower bed. I had two choises:
1. Turn 90 degrees and tunnel out the front of the raised flower bed and then run the pipe all the way around the rock-bed surrounding the AC unit, or contine strait and tunnel under the raised flower bed AND the rock-bed surrounding the AC unit.
In the end, I decided to try under the AC unit beause...
1. Over-all pipe length and number of elbows is reduced.
2. Trenching to allow the tunnelling was done in backyard (seeded with I don't know what kind of grass) rather than in the sodded bermuda grass in the side yard.
3. Practice to attempt to treach the 11' under my drive way.
However, the point about wiring does remind me that I'm going to have to tunnel under the drive way at least twice: once to get my 1" mainline from one side to the other, and a 2nd time to run wires for valves I expect to install on the far side of the driveway (rather than running latterals back under the driveway).
I could either tunnel out the front and run the pipe all the way around the rock garden surrounding the AC unit, or tunnel under the
My current plans call for a sprinkler system for the grass (using 1" PVC) and a low-pressure sytem for flowers and bushes (using 3/4" PVC). I wanted the pipe supplying the new flower bed to also lead to the back yard for more flowers back there. Once I reached the end of this new raised flower bed, I could either come out the side (b
What I was trying to accomplish with the pipe for the flower bed was to keep the pipe in the dirt and allow it to feed water to the back of the o