Do It Yourself Regular Maintenance Page

EVEN WELL-DESIGNED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS REQUIRE
REGULAR MAINTENANCE TO PERFORM EFFICIENTLY

Check your system regularly -- This will take only a few minutes to turn your controller on to test each station for 1-2 minutes and walk around your yard to visually check things out.

Lk for obvious issues like missing heads or nozzles, wet spots, running water where it shouldn’t be.

And have a licensed irrigation professional perform periodic System Checks. This is a short list of items we check regularly during our site visits.

Perform Periodic Irrigation System Checks for:

Leaks:

Pipe Leaks -- look for water that surfaces or creates wet spots

Weeping Valves

Stations / Zones:

Proper design of hydrozones - [Grass & Flower beds have different watering needs
and efforts should be taken to have them in a separate zone(s).]

Proper selection of heads per hydrozone

Distribution Uniformity -- not all systems or stations are created equal

Heads:

Proper spacing for "head-to-head" coverage

Broken, leaking, low, misaligned, obstructed, or tilted

Nozzles:

Broken and/or clogged nozzles

Overspray, wrong pattern or trajectory, or poor coverage

Pressure:

High or low pressure

Misting

Test:

Existing Rain & Freeze Sensor or have one installed

Controller manual operation

Valves open & close completely and properly

Controller Settings:

Proper Date & Time

Watering Cycle Scheduling

Appropriate Watering

Check or replace your controller backup battery