Commercial Irrigation Services Built for Large Properties

Hourly billing is common for small service calls, but most commercial work is better priced as a fixed quote. Larger installations and repairs on business properties get a set price for the whole job, and ongoing care is usually arranged as a per-visit or monthly agreement. Whatever the format, the price is agreed on paper before a crew arrives.

It is a watering system sized for a business or shared property rather than a single house: retail plazas, office parks, HOA common areas, apartment complexes, schools and churches. The principles match a home system, but everything is bigger, with more zones, wider mainlines, higher flow and often several controllers and meters. Backflow protection and permitting are also held to a higher standard because a failure affects a public or shared site.

There is no meaningful average for commercial sites, because the price scales with zone count, head type, the trenching conditions and how far each area sits from the water connection. A small plaza and a multi-controller apartment community are completely different projects. We walk the property, design the zones and give you a written quote for that specific site.

On a commercial property, buried mainlines and valves often stay in service for twenty years or more if they were installed well. Heads take the most abuse from mowers, vehicles and foot traffic and usually need replacing sooner, and controllers tend to be upgraded as smart technology improves. Regular servicing is what keeps a large system from aging early.

On business and HOA sites we most often find heads knocked out of line or broken, valves stuck open that keep a zone running, nozzles clogged by sandy water, wiring faults between the controller and the valves, and pressure set too high or too low. Most of these waste water quietly for weeks before anyone notices a dry patch or a high bill.