Sprinkler Repair & Irrigation in Richardson, TX

Irrigation and landscape work in Richardson

The city states it plainly in its own history: forty per cent of Richardson’s homes were built between 1970 and 1979. Add the 1950s and 60s stock around the original town and along Central Expressway and you have a city where a full retrofit is the default assumption rather than the exception — galvanised or early PVC, brass impact heads, no sensors, and systems that predate any backflow requirement at all.

Richardson also has the heaviest permitting regime of any city on our map, and it is worth knowing what that means before you get a quote. Installations require a permit. Licensed irrigators must register with the city separately. Plans must be sealed and drawn to scale showing controllers, sensors, water sources and the backflow device. There are two mandatory inspections, a minimum trench depth, and an isolation valve required between the service line and the backflow preventer. A quote that does not account for any of that is not a quote for the job Richardson actually requires.

One other thing shapes the work here: barely half of Richardson’s homes are owner-occupied. A good share of what we service belongs to landlords and property managers rather than the person living in the house, and that changes who we talk to, how work gets approved and what documentation is needed afterwards.

Water, soil and rules in Richardson

Richardson is a member city of the North Texas Municipal Water District — the district’s own offices are in the city. Watering is twice weekly year-round by address: even-numbered addresses on Tuesdays and Saturdays, odd-numbered on Wednesdays and Sundays. From April to October sprinklers are prohibited between 10am and 6pm; from 1 November residents may water at any time of day on their designated days, deliberately so systems can avoid a freeze. A first violation carries a fine. Richardson requires permits for irrigation installation, separate city registration for licensed irrigators, sealed scaled plans, and two inspections.

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 Richardson as anywhere else in Texas.

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City

Richardson, Texas

County

Dallas and Collin Counties

Water supply

North Texas Municipal Water District

Watering rules

City of Richardson Water Conservation

Soil

Blackland Prairie clay — shrinks in drought, swells after rain

We cover

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