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The automatic watering system can be useful
around the garden or landscape in other ways.
As
well as providing a high pressure source of water
for washing down paving and other areas, the
supply can be used to automatically top us pools
and water features and even swimming pools.
The installation of a watering system also presents
an opportunity to economically install lighting
cables in the trenches taken out for the distribution
pipework and ISC can also carry out this work and
install lighting fittings where required.
In recent years, the problem of subsidence of
building foundations, caused by contracting clay
soils, has become apparent in the dry summer
season. The clays contract when they dry out,
either through direct evaporation or because plants,
and especially trees, draw out all the soil moisture
through their roots. An automatic watering system around the property will maintain soil moisture at
quite high levels to suit the planting and it can
therefore be expected that any clay soils will not
contract by the same amount as if the system was
not installed.
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