Irrigation & Sprinkler System Repair

Irrigation repair covers the whole system, not only the part that's obviously broken. We replace heads and nozzles that are stuck, clogged or spraying the wrong pattern. We fix or rebuild valves that are stuck open or won't open at all.

We trace wiring faults between the controller and the valves, and we repair or replace controllers that have quit running a schedule right. Every call also includes a coverage audit.

We run each zone, watch where the water lands, and adjust heads and run times so the lawn gets covered and the driveway, the street and the side of the house don't.

Seasonal checks are part of the same service. In spring we bring the system back online zone by zone, checking for winter cracks before they turn into a flooded yard. Late in the year we check it again before the first hard freeze, because a line that holds water through a freeze is the irrigation repair call we get every January.

Most irrigation problems show up as a pattern, not one clear failure. A stuck head floods one corner of the yard and starves everything past it, which looks like a drainage problem until somebody checks the sprinkler. A cracked valve can run a zone all night, and you see it in a water bill that doesn't match the weather.

Dead, brown or thin spots that don't track with sun or shade are usually a coverage gap, not a feeding problem. A controller that resets itself, skips zones or won't hold a program has a wiring or controller fault. Running the system by hand only works around it.

Weekly lawn care already includes a sprinkler check on the property walk every visit. We note a head that isn't popping up, a zone running long, or a dead spot that looks like coverage and not feeding. The seasonal checks, spring startup and pre-freeze shutdown, are part of weekly service too.

A repair is a separate job billed on its own: replacing a valve, rebuilding a head, fixing a wiring fault or swapping a controller. Parts and labor depend on what failed. If you're not on weekly lawn care, we repair irrigation as a standalone service across Madison, Ridgeland, Brandon, Gluckstadt and Flowood.

Irrigation in Madison County runs on the same calendar as the warm-season lawns it waters. In spring, once the grass is greening up, we turn the system on zone by zone, check pressure at each valve, and reset run times for the season ahead.

Through summer, we adjust for heat and rainfall so the system isn't running during a downpour or underwatering during a dry stretch.

Before the first hard freeze, usually late November in Central Mississippi, we check the backflow preventer and drain or blow out exposed lines, because a split pipe or a cracked backflow assembly from a hard freeze is the most common irrigation repair call of the new year.

Two things cause most of the irrigation failures we see around here: Yazoo clay and age. Clay shifts as it wets and dries, and over the years that's hard on buried pipe joints and valve boxes. That's why older systems leak and crack valves more than new ones.

Controllers fail for simpler reasons: age, a power surge, or a wire nicked during other yard work. We carry common heads, nozzles, valves and controller parts on the truck for most repairs. If a job needs a special part, we tell you what it is and what it costs before we order it.

A dead zone at the entrance or a head spraying the parking lot is the kind of thing a property manager shouldn't have to notice themselves.

When we can help it, we don't quote a repair over the phone from a description. On site, we run every zone, note heads that need replacing, check that valves shut off, test the controller's programming and backup power, and check pressure at a few points in the system.

Low pressure can look like a dozen other problems and send a repair down the wrong path. The written estimate breaks out parts and labor, so a simple head swap is priced differently from a valve rebuild or a controller replacement, and you're not paying a flat service fee for a five-minute fix.

If the audit turns up more than the original call, say one bad valve that turns out to be three, we tell you before we do the extra work, not after. And if a system is old enough that patching it piece by piece no longer makes sense, we'll say that too, and show you the repair cost next to a partial or full re-pipe.