The day after a landscape install is a popular irrigation day. Wires get cut at the new steel edging. Heads get buried under two inches of mulch. We are not blaming crews. We are describing the pattern so you check the system before the plants cook.
Checklist after yard work
- Run every zone
- Look at the new edge line
- Find buried cans
- Open the valve box for new water
- Ohm a dead station before you accuse the clock
Prevention
Flag heads before a major plant-out. It is cheaper than a wire hunt under new sod.
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Related: Sunken Sprinkler Heads, System Tune-Ups in Austin, TX, Texas Summer Sprinkler Schedule. Services: all services. Areas: service areas. Cities in this piece: Southlake, Bellaire, The Woodlands.
Parent service page: Timer & Controller Repairs.
How we actually run this job
On the truck this is still isolation before dirt, a written option before extra parts, and a legal watering window after the hardware works. Texas clay, caliche, and city mains punish skipped steps. If a national checklist contradicts your utility, the utility wins.
If you are comparing cities, use the local page rather than this article alone — soil and freeze risk change at the county line. The service menu is here and the area list is here.
Need it fixed, not diagnosed over email? Call 888-427-5022 or use the contact page.
Texas context we will not skip
Gulf clay, Blackland prairie, and Edwards rock do not share a repair script. A wet spot in Houston is not a freeze crack in Dallas, and a SAWS stage day is not a MUD watering window in Katy. We write those constraints because they change the parts on the truck and the program we leave on the clock.
If this article is about a part, still run isolation before you buy a case of that part. If it is about a city, still open the valve box before you trench the first damp patch. If it is about a clock, still measure the solenoid. That order is the whole business.
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