Patio mister

[bluedog225]

Has anyone done a deep dive on patio misters? I was at a restaurant that has an impressive fine mist system going. It was pretty sweet. Even in the 100 eff heat.

I’ve got good water pressure out at the place (don’t know the psi). Was wondering if there an any quality system recommendations? I’ve got electricity from solar and can run a high pressure pump if required.

Not eager to buy this stuff off amazon. Looking for something better and supported.

Thanks

 

[Mikes61]

Don’t buy a cheap system, it will clog and drip. You’ll need a high pressure system with a filter. Sorry I can’t help you pick one, but I’ve talked to several people in Lake Havasu and that’s what they all told me.

 

[WildBill]

I used a pretty cheap Amazon setup but put a good filter on it, worked fine for many years.

 

[rlitman]

Don’t buy a cheap system, it will clog and drip. You’ll need a high pressure system with a filter. Sorry I can’t help you pick one, but I’ve talked to several people in Lake Havasu and that’s what they all told me.

The mist droplet size is directly related to pressure behind the nozzle. I have some very good greenhouse style "drip irrigation" mister nozzles on an overhead pipe, and it works for me sometimes in the summer hooked up to the hose, using 120mesh or finer filtration. However, the very best mister using city water pressure is still going to leave you dripping wet. If you're ok with that (and are dressed in water-park attire), then great, but it's not going to fly at a restaurant.

Real mist cooling systems use continuous duty (and low noise) pressure washer pumps and run with orifices around 0.006" or smaller at well over 1000 PSI. The idea is that with a small enough droplet, the water can fully evaporate before it makes contact with anything, leaving you dry. Using city water with these nozzles leads to rapid failure due to mineral buildup, so they're usually done with reverse-osmosis water.

 

[bluedog225]

Interesting. Thanks.

Looking around I do see some thousand dollars systems that use the thousand psi pumps. I don’t think I’m ready to take that plunge yet.

I might buy a couple hundred foot cheapo systems, put a good filter on it, and string them up in the trees to see how it goes.

As hot as it is, I’m ready to play in the sprinkler.

 

[no704]

I’ve had a few of the cheep hardware store units. Best thing is to get the brass nozzles and an in line filter. Even with the filter the nozzles will clog up, but a quick dip in some CLR cleans them right up. Been a couple years since I’ve looked into it but the cheap systems did offer a booster pump for about $100, never tried one. Have also ran them camping off a corney keg and a bicycle pump with good results.

 

[Kevin1221]

Our house in southern Nevada had a cheaper system installed when we bought the house. It worked really well, but it did require periodic maintenance on the nozzles. I used brass nozzles that I had bought at Ace Hardware. They worked great. I also used a product by Orbit that was called Nozzle Cleaner. I bought that from Amazon. It worked really well. I kept a fee extra nozzles for quick replacement if needed. These extra nozzles were ones I had previously cleaned.

The system worked well and really cooled the patio area.

Kevin

 

[Jackfre]

There is a Hydro-mist fan on our house on the porch which was a PO addition. it does not have the misting section. I contacted HM asking about adding their system and the reply was to add their high pressure system if you want to stay dry. If you don’t mind getting a bit wet I was told there is a plastic ring available on eBay for about $20. For that it is a shut off valve off your house water supply feeding the ring in the fan. We don’t have the need for the fan here, so I’m going to pull it and install it at our daughter’s pool with the cheap ring. That should be a nice system.

 

[MJK]

We went out this past weekend and ate on the patio of a local restaurant. It was 105+ and we were perfectly comfortable thanks to these ceiling fan / misters I had never seen before. There were probably 15-20 of them spaced 6-8 feet apart.



I've tried to find these online to see what a setup like this costs and the best I can do is THIS LINK

If I am doing the math right then each 'fan' is $1000, and each fan needs a $2000 pump / filter, plus water lines, nozzles and installation.

$3500 * 15 = $50k for this system in rough math? If that is even in the ballpark, I need to stick with my little roll around cart.

Anybody have a budget solution that does not make a bunch of noise?

 

[TerryBenedict2001]

We have owned 2 of these systems, the patio misting system, at our old house and new house that operate at 1,000PSI and have different nozzles that you can use.
What I loved was that the whole thing is modular. You can cut the tube to your exact configuration and place the nozzles where you please.
Hooks to hose bib/hose and plugs to any outlet.
The mist was very fine, doesn't get things wet and is very quiet. This operates just like a commercial system but is much cheaper and pretty much the same mist.

 

[finn]

We went out this past weekend and ate on the patio of a local restaurant. It was 105+ and we were perfectly comfortable thanks to these ceiling fan / misters I had never seen before. There were probably 15-20 of them spaced 6-8 feet apart.



I've tried to find these online to see what a setup like this costs and the best I can do is THIS LINK

If I am doing the math right then each 'fan' is $1000, and each fan needs a $2000 pump / filter, plus water lines, nozzles and installation.

$3500 * 15 = $50k for this system in rough math? If that is even in the ballpark, I need to stick with my little roll around cart.

Anybody have a budget solution that does not make a bunch of noise?

I bought a cheap setup for $12.00 on clearance at TSC.

Sounds like I need a filter, but if it works for April and early May until we leave Tucson for the summer, I’m ok with getting a little wet.

That leaves $49988 in my bank account.

 

[no704]

Splurge for a set of brass replacement nozzles. Give them a soak in clr every few weeks. Filter will extend this a lot.