Sprinkler systems
Consistent watering is a zoning decision, not a hardware one
Coverage surveyed on the ground, zones set to what each part of the yard actually needs, and seasonal checks before the lawn shows the fault.
Chapter 01
Survey the coverage before anybody buys parts
Most disappointing systems were specified from a drawing rather than from the yard. The drawing does not know about the slope behind the shed, the fence that blocks a throw, or the bed that will be planted out next spring and change everything.
Walking the property first is what produces a system that waters the whole lawn rather than most of it. The dry crescent that shows up every July is nearly always a coverage decision made before anyone stood on the grass.
Irrigated turf running from a concrete pad out to a fence line near Buda
Zoning is where consistent watering is won or lost
A lawn is not one plant with one requirement. Turf in full afternoon sun, beds in shade under an oak and a strip against hot concrete all want different amounts of water, and putting them on one zone guarantees two of the three are wrong.
Zoning them apart is what makes consistent watering possible at all, and it is what stops the system from being the reason half the lawn struggles.
Chapter 03
Seasonal checks, because a system fails quietly
Sprinkler faults do not announce themselves. A head knocked out of alignment by a mower, a cracked line losing pressure underground, a nozzle that has clogged: none of it is visible until a patch of lawn starts dying and you assume it is a feeding problem.
Checking the system through the season is the cheap half of the work. Finding a broken line in the spring costs a repair. Finding it in August costs the repair and the lawn.
Austin Excel, Licensed and insured. Texas Department of Agriculture pest-control license TPCL #786979. Call (737) 201-3059.