Resources
Where to look, and why.
Most of what people ask us has a better primary source than our opinion of it. This page sorts that source material into the kind of reference it actually is, so you know whether you are looking for a manufacturer's spec sheet, a state licensing body, a trade association, a grower, or just a weather forecast, before you go looking for it.
Manufacturer technical libraries and supply
Hunter, Rain Bird, Toro, Weathermatic, Ewing
Hunter, Rain Bird, Toro and Weathermatic manufacture most of the irrigation hardware running on commercial properties in this market, and each publishes its own specification sheets, installation manuals and controller programming guides. Ewing is the supply side of the same world, the counter and catalog most of that equipment and its replacement parts actually move through. If you are a facilities director trying to reprogram a zone on a controller that predates your tenure, or a general contractor checking a spec against a submittal, the manufacturer's own library is the current and accurate source. We use the same libraries ourselves when a repair calls for matching equipment somebody else installed years before we ever saw the property.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
State licensing body
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the state body that licenses irrigators in Texas. Our vice president, Joseph T. Angelone, has held an irrigator's licence through that agency since 1998, and we have four licensed irrigators on staff today. If you want to confirm a contractor's licence status, or simply want the state's own account of what irrigation licensing covers, that agency is the primary source, not a summary from us or anyone else.
Trade and professional associations
TNLA, ALCA, APLD, NTNGA
Groups like TNLA, ALCA and APLD set craft standards for the green industry, run certification programs, and offer continuing education that goes beyond what any single company keeps in house. NTNGA does the same at a regional level, organized around growers in North Texas specifically. These associations are useful if you want to check a contractor's standing in the wider industry, or if you are looking for a specialist, such as an independent landscape designer, outside the scope of work we perform ourselves.
Growers and nurseries
Cherry Lake, Twin Lakes Nursery
Cherry Lake and Twin Lakes Nursery are wholesale growers, which puts them closer to where plant material actually originates than we are. If a general contractor is weighing a substitution request on a planting plan, or a property manager wants to know why a particular cultivar is on back order this season, a grower's own current availability answers that faster and more accurately than we can secondhand.
Dirt Doctor
Horticultural reference
Dirt Doctor is a long-running Texas reference on organic soil and plant health suited to this region's clay and heat. It is useful background reading for anyone maintaining a property between our visits, or simply curious about why a particular bed gets treated the way it does.
Weather
weather.com
weather.com is the forecast most of our own scheduling runs on. A property manager timing an irrigation run around a freeze watch, or a planting week around an incoming rain system, is usually better served checking it directly than waiting on us to relay what it says.
Construction bid and project platforms
CNSX, iSqFt
CNSX and iSqFt are plan-room and bid-management platforms general contractors and developers use to put a project out for bid and track subcontractor submissions through the life of a job. If you are inviting us to bid on a project, there is a fair chance this is the platform you are already running it through, and we are glad to work inside whichever one you use.
If it is not on this list, ask us directly.
This page covers where to go when the better answer is not from us. For everything else, meaning your property, your timeline and your budget, the fastest path is still a phone call or the form on our contact page.