Irrigation Maintenance
Two dates a year decide how long the system lasts
Spring start-ups and winterisation, plus inspections, controller adjustments, head cleaning, valve repairs and leak detection in between.
Chapter 01
Spring start-ups and winterisation
North Alabama does not have a brutal winter, which is exactly why irrigation here gets neglected. It is warm enough that people assume the system is fine, and cold enough often enough to split a head or crack a backflow assembly that was left full.
A start-up is not just turning the water back on. It is bringing pressure up slowly, walking every zone, and finding the damage that happened while nobody was looking, before the first hot week makes it urgent.
Winterisation is the same job in reverse, and it is the cheaper of the two, because it prevents the damage instead of finding it.
Sprinkler head being tested and adjusted on a lot with fresh grading
What an inspection actually covers
System inspections, controller adjustments, sprinkler head cleaning, valve repairs and leak detection. In practice that means running each zone, watching the pattern, clearing the heads that are throwing badly, and checking the numbers for the quiet leak that never surfaces.
Controllers drift out of step with the season more than anything else on the system. A schedule that was right in April is watering a lawn in October that does not want it, and you pay for that twice: once on the bill and once in the turf.
Chapter 03
Why maintenance changes your warranty
We provide a one year warranty on all installations. On top of that, we offer a lifetime warranty on products when you choose our team for ongoing maintenance services.
That second one is worth reading carefully, because it is the only version of a lifetime product warranty that means anything. Parts last when somebody inspects them on a schedule. A warranty that assumes nobody ever looks at the system is a warranty on paper.
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