Rain Bird FCKIT-1PK Drip Irrigation Easy Fit Faucet Connection Kit for 1/2" Tubing, Includes Pressure Regulator and Filter

The parts list for even a modest backyard drip irrigation system can be quite long, and it all starts at the faucet. You need a way to connect your 1/2-inch plastic line to a faucet, a filter to keep any debris out of the little drip openings, a pressure regulator that keeps the water pressure low enough and a back-flow preventer so that any ca ca in the garden won't be somehow sucked back up the pipes, out your faucet and into your mother-in-law's seventh bourbon and water. All this can be costly and then you have to figure out how to assemble it, and you know that connecting a bunch of plumbing fixtures together can result in you getting a bag of expensive brass bushings, pipes, adapters, etc. Or, get this fine little unit. Cheap, all-in-one and just fine for a modest back-yard system. You can easily add a timer to it so long as it has faucet/hose connections as most of the small in-line battery operated timers do. This makes for a good, affordable and legal system (there are codes requiring back-flow devices). The bottom part connects that 1/2 plastic hose in a simple and non-leaking manner. This is how I hooked up my little system: first, I got a 90-degree angle faucet so that it points straight down. I found a drain faucet that did the trick. I just wanted the unit to be straight up and down, not sticking out at an angle as it does on a standard faucet. I think it looks better and people won't trip over it. It also makes the timer sit nice and level, neat and professional-looking. The last advantage is that the plastic hose goes straight down into the ground, into the ditch you dug for it. When it is covered with dirt, this helps stabilize the kit. After all, it is plastic and while it seems sturdy enough, support at the bottom will help it survive an impact. The last tip is to put a two-or three-way tee connector between the faucet and the kit. This allows you to simultaneously use a hose, and you know you will still need one for miscellaneous watering. The kit, a tee and a timer adds up, so your faucet either has to be fairly high or the bottom part of the kit will have to be buried in the ditch. This won't hurt anything and might make it even more stable, so don't worry. This kit is great for the average yard, is simple and economical and works well. I can recommend it.

Good product. I used it to give my irrigation system a consistent pressure. I have 80 psi out of the tap.

This product is aptly named (FCKIT-1PK ) as long as you already have tubing and a garden hose this does everything else you would want. After 7 years of solid service left outside all year this item started to develop pinhole leaks at the pressure regulator so instead of buying another pressure regulator a new drip adapter etc, I'm just getting another one of this kit and saying FCKIT. Truly does what it says and is worth the slightly higher price tag. It sees service for me from May until early November so 7 years is truly insane staying power. Update: apparently they've slightly changed the size of this as the more recent reviews say it's hard as **** to tighten it onto the plastic threads and that's accurate with *rainbird* .500 inch drip line from years ago or this year. Everything else works as it should but get a metal hose clamp to clamp your drip line onto this and you will be happy. Dropping review from five stars to four 7+ years later.

Works great

This product does not match what I received. The piece at the top of this display is turned 180 degrees. Impossible to get the hose over the nipple and get the plastic piece started on the threads. There web site does not provide any instructions. So if you order this and find the same issue, the cone shaped piece needs to have the large end needs to be threaded on as far as it will go. Then install the tube on the nipple, as far as you can push it on. Now loosen the cone shaped piece like you want to take it off and it will engage the tubing, the more you turn the cone shaped piece like you want to remove it the more it will clamp down on the tube end, becoming very snug and lock the tubing in place and make it leak free, assuming you were able to push the tubing far enough onto the nipple, about 1/2 inch. Also, I finally pressurized the system and this thing leaked like a sinking boat. The junction at the bottom of the pressure regulator, where the cone piece is has a rubber seal but is was not thick enough to properly seal. I added an additional rubber seal (washer style) and now we be drip irrigating.

Very easy to install.

No me sirvio

Great that it allows me to connect to garden hose BUT the drip line keeps falling off it. I will have to use a silicone glue to attach it. I would buy again because I don't think there are other options and I need to attach to garden hose.

Was easy to assemble and works well. It took a bit to figure out the hose end connection because the picture has the hose lock nut upside down to the actual lock nut on the kit I received. Maybe it is just an old picture. Anyway, once I realised the problem it was easy.

Works as advertised

Good product. Still leaks around the plastic

I ordered a RainBird drip irrigation system, part by part, to water my vegetable garden (with large raised beds). One of the challenges we face is that we move the vegetables from bed to bed each year, and so it used to take a lot of time to adjust and rebuild our old system as the plants changed places. With my new RainBird system I was able to set up a single long 1/4" drip tubing (with 6" hole spacing) for each bed so that it can be laid out quickly around all the plants, the closer the spacing the more water etc.. The backbone of the system is a 1/2" main line where I used a bunch of T's and L's to smoothly run the main pipe under the soil, popping up a branch over the edge of each raised bed. I used 1/4" barbed coupling fittings (get the purple RainBird tool for these!) to connect the 1/4" drip tubing to the 1/2" main line branches. Almost all connections went together really well, the only challenge I had was with the Faucet Connector where it attaches to the 1/2" tubing. The tubing fits over the connector, but the threaded sleeve that screws over top to create a solid and clean connection would not screw up. The threads are plastic, and they just won't grab. So far the system does not leak, but we have to be really careful. I would give 5 stars if I could get the connector to thread properly.

This worked great for the first couple of months that I used it....Stored this in my house over the winter, took great care of it. And now that I need it for this season, it leaks when the system runs.