Davie has the biggest lots on our route and a lot of them irrigate off a well rather than city water. That changes the whole failure list, and it changes how a system should be designed.
If your system runs off a well, forget most of what applies to a city-pressure system. Sand chews out nozzle orifices until the pattern goes ragged. Iron stains walls, driveways and anything light-coloured the spray reaches, and no amount of pressure washing fixes the cause. A pressure tank with a failed bladder makes the pump short-cycle, which will finish the pump inside a season. And a pump that runs dry in a dry spring is a replacement, not a repair.
The answers are unglamorous: a properly sized sand separator, the right filtration, and a pump matched to the actual run rather than to the house. We would rather fit those once than keep replacing nozzles for you.
A two-acre lot is not a quarter-acre lot with more heads. It needs fewer, larger zones, different head spacing, and a pump sized to the whole run — and if you have paddocks, pasture irrigation is a different layout again from turf. We quote acreage as a design, with zone counts and flow worked out on paper, rather than as a head count.
Done wrong, the symptom is always the same: the system runs for hours and the far end never gets wet.
Well-fed irrigation is not metered by the utility, which leads people to assume the schedule does not apply. The equipment still cares. Running long hours to compensate for a sand-worn nozzle is how pumps die early, and oversized run times on a well system cost you in equipment instead of in water. Check current rules with the Town of Davie, and size the system so it does not need the extra hours.
Sand separators, filtration, pressure tanks and pump sizing — the parts of a Davie system that actually fail.
Zone layout and flow worked out on paper for large lots, so the far end gets the same water as the near end.
Trenched, pressure-tested and tuned, designed around the lot you have rather than a standard template.
Every zone run and watched, heads aligned, nozzles matched — the cheapest visit we offer and often the only one needed.
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do in Davie. Wells bring sand, iron and pump problems that city-pressure systems never see, and they need filtration sized for the well rather than whatever was on the truck.
A properly sized sand separator ahead of the zones, plus the right filter. Replacing nozzles treats the symptom; separating the sand treats the cause.
Yes. Acreage needs fewer, larger zones, wider head spacing and a pump sized to the whole run. We quote it as a design rather than as a head count, so you can see the flow maths before you commit.
That is short-cycling, usually a pressure tank with a failed bladder rather than the pump itself. Caught early it is a cheap fix. Left alone it will take the pump with it.
Tell us what it is doing and we will tell you what it is likely to be before we come out.