Residential Sprinkler System

Our clients find that a residential sprinkler system is an excellent way to protect their landscaping investment. Sprinkler systems improve the health of all plantings because of the consistent delivery of water. They help you manage your water usage, something that is much appreciated each month when the water bill arrives. In short, these time-saving systems immensely ease the burden of lawn care.

Residential sprinkler systems, like so many other aspects of modern living, have gone technical. The typical high-grade system from Exterior Worlds uses controller technology which serves as the brains of the system. Within the controller, you’ll find such automatic sprinkler system features as water delay options and rain sensors that prevent over-watering during rainy days. They also can come equipped with a pressure vacuum breaker (PVB), a safeguard against contaminates being suctioned back into the city’s drinking water when water pressure drops.

One of our quality sprinkler system installations typically uses different heads for the different zones of your landscape. For instance, pop-up spray heads, recognizable by the fan-shaped pattern of water they produce, are suitable for smaller or irregular spaces, such as landscape beds. As their name implies, rotor heads are the sprinklers that operate by rotating streams of water back and forth over the landscape. They work well in large areas such as turf-covered lawns.

Most often a part of a garden sprinkler system, a drip irrigation system works by means of drip emitters (also called inline drippers and micro spray heads) and high-grade hose materials that water plants in a gently soaking manner that is very beneficial to plant life and also significantly reduces the loss of water caused by evaporation. Drippers are perfect for narrow and raised beds, around retaining walls and in hanging baskets.

When installing a sprinkler system, it is highly recommended that you work with professionals who are experienced with your particular water source and pressure, planting materials, soil type and climate conditions. Knowledgeable irrigation contractors such as Exterior Worlds take all these factors into consideration and design a system specifically for you and your landscape needs.

We can regularly check your residential sprinkler system as part of a monthly maintenance contract. The periodical inspection of your sprinklers ensures that everything functions properly and allows us to discover problems quickly. One clogged head or torn line can misuse costly water and unnecessarily damage your landscape.

Items on our sprinkler checklists would include:

• Monthly checking of and adjustments to sprinkler heads.
• Unclogging sprinkler heads, as-needed.
• Adjusting the levels of the heads to ground level, as-needed.
• Regular adjustments to the settings on the timer.
• Manually operating all valves, approximately four times a year.
• Cleaning the mainline filter (if any).
• Checking wire-nuts and wires for damage, on a regular basis.

The end results are worth it because your residential sprinkler system has such a positive impact on your landscape and lawn and garden services. Your plants are healthier because of the regular and proper delivery of water and that means fewer re-plantings. Plus—and maybe most importantly—you get the lush and verdant landscape you dreamed about when you started your landscape project.