Online cost calculator - How much would an irrigation system for your garden cost?

With the Irrigation Guide online irrigation calculator, you can calculate the expected costs for installing an irrigation system with minimal effort.

All you need is the approximate size of the lawn and garden bed area to be irrigated in square feet. This includes vegetable beds or raised beds, as well as hedges and planters.

Entering the calculator is done in the following five steps:

Specify what you want to irrigate – lawn only, garden beds only, hedges and planters only, or both.
Enter the lawn or garden bed area in square feet – the minimum size is 100 square feet, the maximum is 10,000 square feet. The area entered directly influences the costs for sprinklers, drip lines, and pipelines, and indirectly the costs for the control system, as the cost of these also increases with the number of zones (additional zone outlets and valves).
Choice of how the irrigation system should be controlled – Here, you can choose between a maximally simple and cost-effective solution, where a valve is simply opened and closed manually for each irrigation run, or a fully automated solution with a web-enabled irrigation computer and weather control. You can also choose whether you prefer a simpler faucet control system located directly on the faucet or a professional control system using a solenoid valve box. This allows you to specifically calculate the desired solution and also test the cost impact of different solutions.
Selection of additional options – This includes everything that can be useful for an irrigation system but is not absolutely necessary. Such as sensors or a water socket. Or even things that are only required in certain cases, such as a pump if you draw water from your own well.
Drain valves: Yes or no – The final decision is whether you want to permanently install drain valves in the pipeline or instead blow out the pipes with compressed air once a year. In the first case, the costs for irrigation valves are added.

The costs resulting from the entered data are displayed directly below the calculator and are also broken down into the areas of sprinklers, pipeline and connectors, micro-irrigation, control, and additional options.

In my experience, these are the realistic costs you can expect. If you buy very cheaply, you can come in lower, but with expensive sources, you can significantly exceed them. The calculation is based on high-quality components from brand manufacturers such as Hunter and Rain Bird, which are also used by professionals. The costs listed are the do-it-yourself price, excluding any labor costs. If you have the irrigation system installed by professionals, it will cost many times more.