Lawn Care & Landscaping Blog

A functional irrigation system is paramount in Florida, where we experience warm weather most of the year. Your grass needs plenty of water to survive, and you'll want to ensure your irrigation system is always operating at maximum efficiency by scheduling routine checkups. When you hire a company to perform irrigation maintenance for your system, they should manually test your entire system and do a walkthrough to ensure everything is operational. They should also see if any parts...

It's very important to have a working sprinkler system in Florida because the warm weather we experience year-round can cause your grass to dry out if it's not properly watered. There are some signs that you should be on the lookout for that could indicate that your sprinkler system needs to be repaired, including a higher-than-normal water bill, sprinklers spraying erratically, a change in your water pressure, or patches of brown grass scattered across your lawn. Whenever you...

Regular irrigation maintenance is essentially a checkup for your sprinklers. It ensures that everything is running smoothly with your irrigation system. This is really important because there could easily be issues with your system that you are unaware of until after you receive an extremely high water bill with, wasted water being the culprit. When your sprinklers in Florida aren't running properly, the health of your vegetation also suffers because of the poor distribution of water...

The filters in an irrigation system can be of utmost importance, especially if you are on reclaimed or are drawing from a pond. Filters are there to protect your investment. A lot of the new communities being built in the Sarasota and Manatee County areas are drawing the irrigation water from ponds. This can be a problem, as dirt, debris and sand will eventually get pushed through the system and end up in your valves and sprinkler heads. Not only can this cause a valve to stick, but mostly...

How much do you charge to come out and repair my sprinkler system? It depends upon where you live. Our minimum service call fee for most of Bradenton and Sarasota (south of State Road 70, west of I-75, north of Nokomis, and east of US 41) is $75. In order to cover gas and driving time, our minimum service call fee increases the farther we travel from our headquarters. Some examples, East of I-75 ($85), Anna Maria Island ($125) and North Longboat Key ($100) North of 70 and West of 41 Bradenton...