Sod Installation
A new lawn is a watering problem with grass on top
New sod laid and watered in properly. We are recognised among the top sod companies in the Huntsville area, and we are an irrigation company, which is the part that matters after week one.
Chapter 01
Recognised among the top sod companies in the area
That is our own claim, made on our own site, and we would rather say so plainly than dress it up. What sits behind it is volume and repetition: we have been laying sod around Huntsville since 1999, usually as the last stage of work we were already doing.
It is worth knowing why a sod job goes to an irrigation contractor at all. New turf does not fail because it was laid badly. It fails because of what happened to it in the three weeks afterwards.
Fresh sod laid alongside a new paver walkway and planted beds
Bermuda, cut to four inches
For Bermuda we recommend maintaining a height of four inches. It is the single most useful number we can give a homeowner, and it is the one most often ignored.
Cut Bermuda short and you force it to spend its energy regrowing leaf instead of rooting, which in an Alabama summer means it dries out faster, needs more water, and thins where it is stressed. A taller cut shades its own root zone. The lawn holds moisture better and asks less of the sprinkler system.
Chapter 03
What happens after it is laid
Watering is where new sod succeeds or fails. It wants to be kept consistently damp while the roots knit into the soil underneath, and then weaned onto a normal schedule rather than dropped onto one.
This is why the sod conversation almost always turns into an irrigation conversation. If the coverage has a weak zone, new turf is where you will find out, because the seams open there first. If you are laying sod on a yard with an existing system, it is worth having the coverage checked before the pallets arrive rather than after.
B & C Irrigation — Fully licensed and insured. Call (256) 286-4108.