Irrigation Repair
We find what is wrong before anything gets dug up
Broken heads, leaking valves, damaged pipe, controller faults and zones that stopped switching. Diagnosis first, then the smallest repair that fixes it.
Chapter 01
The signs you can read yourself
Uneven watering across a zone. Puddles or a soggy patch that never dries out. A water bill that jumped without anything else changing. Hissing, or water visibly escaping where it should not. Heads that will not pop up, or will not retract once they have. A system that will not turn on, or will not turn off properly.
Any one of those is worth a phone call. Two or three of them together usually means the problem has been running for a while, and the water bill is doing the paying.
It is genuinely useful to tell us which zone, and what you saw, when you call. Sometimes that is enough to solve it on the phone, which has happened often enough that customers write about it.
Irrigation valve box opened during a repair with parts and tools on the dug back sod
What it usually turns out to be
Most repairs land in five buckets: a broken sprinkler head, a leaking valve, damaged pipe, a controller issue, or a zone malfunction where the valve is no longer being told to open. The symptoms above do not map one to one onto those causes, which is exactly why guessing is expensive.
A soggy patch, for instance, can be a cracked lateral, a valve that is weeping, or simply a head that has sunk and is now watering its own hole. Those are three different repairs at three different prices, and you cannot tell which from the surface.
Chapter 03
How a repair visit runs
We locate before we dig. That includes finding valve boxes that have disappeared under years of sod, which is more common in Huntsville than you would think. Where we find a valve buried and inaccessible we will reset it so it can be reached next time rather than reburying the problem.
Then we run the zone, watch it, and fix the specific fault. Rotors that have stopped turning get replaced, the rest get adjusted, and the system is run again at the end to prove it works.
Leaving the yard the way we found it
Repair work means opening ground, and how that ground looks afterwards is a real part of the job. Our field technicians call ahead, check in when they arrive and before they leave, and put the sod back properly.
One customer who has used us since we installed his system put it plainly: they leave little to no yard or grass damage, and do a good job of leaving it better than they found it. For a homeowner who spends time and money on a lawn, that is not a small detail.
B & C Irrigation — Fully licensed and insured. Call (256) 286-4108.