Irrigation
The water gets designed before it gets specified.
Four licensed irrigators on staff, one licence held continuously since 1998, and a second line that answers when a mainline breaks after hours.
Licensed, not just experienced
Anyone can call themselves an irrigation contractor. Texas licenses the people who actually design and install the systems, and we keep four of those licenses on staff. Vice president Joseph T. Angelone holds the longest-running one on the team, license number 6959 through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, continuously since 1998, which puts a licensed irrigator in the room for the estimating, the design and the sign-off on every irrigation job we take.
When it breaks after hours
A mainline break, a stuck valve flooding a walk, or a controller that drops a whole zone does not wait for Monday morning. The main office runs weekdays, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The 24-hour emergency irrigation line is a separate, staffed number for exactly this.
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Somebody answers this number at three in the morning.
The main office line, (469) 521-2200, runs Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, for scheduling, estimating and routine service. The emergency line is a different, staffed number, reserved for irrigation failures that are actively damaging a property or its landscape right now.
What we build and run
Six ways a property's irrigation gets handled.
Every commercial irrigation job we take falls into one of these. Most large properties end up touching two or three of them across a lifetime: a design build install at construction, central control once the property joins a portfolio, and repair and service for as long as it stands.
Specified irrigation installation
A civil engineer or landscape architect has already drawn the system: mainline sizing, valve schedule, head spacing, product line. Our job is to build precisely to that spec and pass the inspection it was written for, which is the normal path on a bid-set commercial job with a general contractor and an owner's rep watching the schedule.
Central control irrigation
One controller per site works until a portfolio has thirty sites. Central control puts every property's irrigation on one system, so a property manager can adjust a run time, catch a flow-sensor alarm before a broken head floods a parking lot, and pull a water-use report across the whole portfolio instead of driving to each address to check a dial.
Design build irrigation
No spec exists yet, so we write one. Mainline routing, zoning by plant type and sun exposure, head selection and controller programming are designed and installed by the same crew, which is the version of this work where the irrigation gets shaped around the planting instead of squeezed in after it.
Irrigation repair and service
Most of the work in this division is not a new install. It is a stuck valve, a broken head clipped by a mower, a controller that has stopped talking to a zone, or a mainline break that is putting water somewhere it should not go. Routine repair runs on the main line during business hours; anything that cannot wait goes to the emergency line below.
Athletic field irrigation
A field has to water evenly corner to corner, with no dry sideline and no soaked infield, because uneven coverage shows up as uneven turf on a schedule a coach and a maintenance director both notice. Head spacing and precipitation rate get designed to the field's actual use pattern, not a generic commercial layout.
Reclamation irrigation
Some municipalities and developments supply reclaimed water instead of potable water for irrigation, and that changes the system, not just the source. Purple pipe, required signage, backflow prevention and separation from any potable line all have to be built in from the start, and we design to whichever water source the site actually has.
Athletic fields and campus sites
The irrigation gets designed to how the site is actually used.
A campus arena forecourt, a practice field and a corporate plaza carry water differently and get walked on differently. Zoning, head selection and precipitation rate follow the site, not a standard commercial layout, which is the same reasoning behind athletic field irrigation and reclamation irrigation on this list. Both are specialty work most residential irrigation contractors never touch.
Before you call
What people ask about the irrigation side specifically.
- What does the 24-hour emergency irrigation line cover?
- A separate, staffed number for irrigation failures that cannot wait until morning, which on a large property usually means a mainline break, a stuck valve flooding a walk or a controller that has stopped a whole zone. Call (214) 801-2040 at any hour. The main office line, (469) 521-2200, runs Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
- Are your irrigators licensed?
- Yes. We have four licensed irrigators on staff. Our vice president, Joseph T. Angelone, holds the company's longest-held irrigation licence through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, licence number 6959, which he has held since 1998.