Sprinkler Repair & Irrigation in Frisco, TX

Irrigation and landscape work in Frisco

Frisco runs four watering seasons, not two, and the one that surprises people is winter. From 1 November to 31 March the city does not permit turf watering by spray or rotor at all — drip only, and a maximum of two hours a day if the weather genuinely warrants it. Every winter we get calls from homeowners who did not know, and from a few who found out through the enforcement letter.

Spring and autumn are one day a week on your bin collection day. Summer is that day plus one designated second day. Between 10am and 6pm nothing runs. Fines start at a hundred dollars and climb, though a first residential penalty can be waived by taking a free city sprinkler checkup — the city employs its own licensed irrigators and does several thousand of those a year.

Frisco also requires a permit for new systems, alterations, additions and repairs, with backflow approved before an irrigation inspection can be booked, and annual backflow testing by a tester registered with the city. Practically, that means a Frisco job has paperwork attached that the same job in a neighbouring city does not. Worth knowing before someone quotes you a suspiciously quick price.

Water, soil and rules in Frisco

Frisco is a member city of the North Texas Municipal Water District. The city runs four watering seasons: one day a week on your collection day in spring and autumn, that day plus a designated second day in summer, and no turf watering by spray or rotor at all between 1 November and 31 March. Nothing runs between 10am and 6pm. Permits are required for installations, alterations, additions and repairs, and backflow devices must be tested annually by a tester registered with the city. Frisco publishes a local clay infiltration rate of about 0.10 inches per hour, which is why cycle-and-soak matters so much here.

Under Texas Commission on Environmental Quality rules, selling, designing, installing, altering, repairing or servicing an irrigation system requires a TCEQ licence. Ask any contractor for their license number before work begins — in Frisco as anywhere else in Texas.

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City

Frisco, Texas

County

Collin and Denton Counties

Water supply

North Texas Municipal Water District

Watering rules

City of Frisco Water Efficiency Plan

Soil

Blackland Prairie clay — shrinks in drought, swells after rain

We cover

Sprinkler repair, irrigation installation, winterization, drainage, landscaping, sod, grounds maintenance