How are you guys watering your soil?

Like how are you getting the water to the grow room? Maybe I'm a little bit lazy but carrying pails of water in and spilling it all over while trying to water plants is shitty. I have just been bringing a bucket in and using a mug to scoop it out and into the pots.
I thought of maybe using a big bucket of some sort and being able to raise it up a few feet onto a stand or raised chair and using a 3/8 hose cut and glued in the bottom with like 10 feet of hose or whatever with a manual valve on the end so you can just turn it off and on as you need water to flow out. You could just hold the hose into the bucket and open the valve.

Does anyone see anything wrong with this??

Still gotta carry it.

Run a line to a bucket. In the bucket have a float valve. It will keep the bucket full all the time. Add in a pump on a timer, now you got auto watering. but make sure to add an airpump & stone.

use dehumidifier in the room. as it fills up empty it into a holding tank. use this and adjust ph before watering. never have to carry a bucket of water anywhere. works well if youre in a basement thats a little too humid to start with.

I have these water bottles called "better bottles", its a brand name, sold primarily for secondary fermentation of beer and for making wine. I fill them with water at I let 'em sit, aside from oxygen bubbling in. They hold over 5 gallons. I also have a conical fermenter which is made of much thicker plastic that sits on rack, and it has nice valves for dispensing liquids from the lower region. I keep it full with water from the better bottles, and I can also pop one of those on top of the fermenter so its like a watercooler, without the chiller, etc. If I do some homebrew some of the equipment will have to go back to that, but while its sitting idle I can't help but use it. The wash basin is actually not far, but I like having it close.

I don't expect this would really work for others unless they had the equipment or invested in it. but thats how I do it. lol

I'm setting up a 5gal bucket with a timer and pump to the plants with a drip system or very small spayers to soak the pots to start with.Also plan on running water lines to my room.I'm pretty lazy so dont want to carry sheeeet.The more I read the more I want to go hydro or my be aero.Looks like a much easier way to run a room once set-up right.No soil to mess with.Never tried it yet but looks way better.I have about 6 months untill I can start a grow so I'm in to some heavy plannin.My biggest thing with that is how to mix the mix right everytime.Lots more reading to do before I decide on which way to grow.I'm lookin for the room to do all the work not me .

Or, a simpler way; get an ordinary garden hose, a dril, and a drill pump set. Fill a sink or bucket or whatever and run the hose from your water to your grow room. Then just pump out the water that you need to use to water with, then when you're done, drain the sink and pick up/coil the hose for clean-up. 25$ solution, the cheapest solution i could come up with

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unforgiven1420 said:

use dehumidifier in the room. as it fills up empty it into a holding tank. use this and adjust ph before watering. never have to carry a bucket of water anywhere. works well if youre in a basement thats a little too humid to start with.

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this is what i did as well
plus a airstone and a green genius.
stays full.