Services
Irrigation Repair
The system's not working — or it's working, mostly. Blockages, leaks, pressure loss, pump faults: the repair service covers the diagnosis and the fix, on systems we installed and on systems we didn't.
The four failure families
Almost every irrigation fault is one of four things. Knowing which one you have is half the repair — and it's what we work out first, because the fix for the wrong diagnosis is a part that costs money and solves nothing.
| Fault family | What it looks like | Usual cause | Usual fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blockage | Rows lagging, end emitters dry, uneven wetting that gets worse over the season | Filtration (9 times out of 10), sediment settled in the lines, fertigation precipitate | Flush, clean/replace the filter, replace the affected line stretch, fix the filtration routine |
| Leak | Soaked spot, pressure dropping, water where there shouldn't be | A fitting, a joint, a punctured line or pipe | Locate (pressure-down test zone by zone), replace the fitting/line stretch, re-join to spec |
| Pressure loss | Far end of the field dry, pump running but the field starved, "it used to reach" | Undersized mainline, a leaking joint upstream, a clogged regulator or filter, a struggling pump | Check the pressure at head vs line end, find the drop point, fix the sized cause — not the symptom |
| Pump fault | No pressure, cavitation noise, tripping, not reaching the field | Dry running (seals), worn impeller, intake blockage, electrical, source level dropped | Service the pump, fix the intake, check the source — and find out why it failed (the dry-run protection, the missing strainer) |
How a repair visit runs
- Diagnose before opening anything. The pressure readings (head vs line end), the visual walk, the history (when it started, what changed — the rains, a harvest, a new crop) — the fault family is identified first. The common problems guide is the same sequence, written for self-diagnosis.
- Fix the cause, not the symptom. A line that blocks every season is a filtration problem wearing a line's face — replacing the line without fixing the filter books next season's fault. The repair report says what was the cause, what was fixed, and what to watch.
- Test what was fixed. The repaired zone runs at design pressure before we leave — the same handover standard as a new install, applied to the repaired part.
- Leave the system documented. If the as-built exists, it gets updated; if it doesn't, the repair is the chance to start one — the map and the zone table that make the next fault faster to find.
Repair on systems we didn't install
The majority of repair calls are on other people's systems — and that's fine, because the failure families don't check the installer's name. The difference a good repair makes on an unknown system is the documentation: we map what we find (the pipe sizes, the zones, the filter type), fix the fault, and leave the notes — so the system's history starts from this visit, and the next fault is faster.
Where a system's problems are structural (the mainline undersized, the filter missing entirely, the pump wrong for the job), the honest answer is that the repair is a partial fix and the upgrade is the complete one — we say so, with the numbers, and let you choose the depth of the fix.
What to tell us before the visit
- The symptom in your words — "the last row is dry", "the pump noise changed", "the pressure dropped last week".
- When it started, and what changed around then (the rains, a new crop, a new filter, nothing).
- The system's age and roughly what's in it (drip lines or tape, the pump type, the water source).
- Photos of the affected area help; the walk at the visit settles it.
With that, a lot of faults diagnose over a call — and the visit goes straight to the fix. The ones that can't be fixed from the field (a pump that needs workshop service, a mainline that needs replacing) get a plan and a quote before we touch them.
When repair becomes upgrade
The line between repair and upgrade is the cause: a punctured line is a repair; a mainline that's undersized for the field is an upgrade wearing a "pressure loss" uniform. We're explicit about which one you're looking at — the repair quote fixes the fault, the upgrade quote fixes the system, and both come from the same diagnosis. See irrigation upgrade for the existing-system path.
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