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Expansions, Major Repairs & Upgrades

What to Expect

If you’re interested in having an irrigation system installed or expanded it’s a good idea to plan ahead because our installation crews schedule can be booked through mid-summer by early January – and because the permitting process for backflow preventers in most Finger Lakes counties (i.e., Cayuga, Ontario, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Yates) can take up to six months.

The Installation Process

New Construction

If you’re building a new home or commercial property, we will meet with you and your designer/builder/contractor to develop a Proposal that includes an irrigation plan and to make sure that we understand what is planned for the site and that the plumbing and electrical work, conduits, sleeves, and permits are put in place to support the system installation when the site is ready  (usually after landscaping and hard surfaces are installed).

Existing Properties

 After you have accepted our proposal, we will place you in our work schedule, apply for all necessary permits, and give you a tentative start date that is subject to change due to timely permit issuance, UDIG-NY contractors' timely performance of stakeouts and the rain, roots, rocks, and rock-hard soil we encounter on the jobs we have scheduled before yours.

If you’re installing an irrigation system on an existing property we'll contact you to learn what you want to do, and then use our mapping software to create an aerial view of your property showing your property boundaries and existing conditions (landscaping and hard surfaces, buried utilities, water supply, etc.), develop a written Proposal with a plan and scope of work, and identify an area for staging materials and equipment. We'll share the proposal with you, and make adjustments as needed to fit your budget or to accommodate additional sprinkler- or drip-irrigated areas.

After you have accepted our proposal and paid a deposit, we will place you in our work schedule, apply for all necessary permits, and give you a tentative start date that is subject to change due to timely permit issuance, UDIG-NY contractors' timely performance of stakeouts and the rain, roots, rocks, and rock-hard soil we encounter on the jobs we have scheduled before yours.

After you've accepted our Proposal...

Depending on when we receive your accepted proposal and your availability, we will place you in our current year’s work schedule or include you in the next year’s work schedule. When we place you in our schedule, we will give you a tentative start date (e.g., the week of…) and contact you as the date draws near to advise of changes, if any, caused by weather or unexpected circumstances or conditions on the jobs that precede yours.

When it’s nearing the time for your system installation, modification, major repair, or expansion to begin we’ll…

  • Let you know we’re on schedule or that an adjustment is needed…
  • Call UDIG NY to flag underground utilities (often up to three weeks before we start your work)…
  • Work weekdays, generally 8am-5pm, and sometimes on Saturdays…
  • Park 2-3 vans on the street or in your driveway…
  • Place signs in your yard while installation is in progress…
  • Mark buried wires, piping, etc. not flagged by UDIG-NY and lay out your system using flags…
  • Leave a trailer at your house while work is in progress and store materials in your garage or yard…
  • Be respectful and polite, wear shoe coverings in your house & not smoke or vape in your yard…
  • Bore under sidewalks – if required to place supply lines…
  • Use a vibratory plow to carefully insert underground piping with minimal disruption to your lawn…
  • Hand dig areas that cannot be accessed with a vibratory plow…
  • Tamp your yard to level where it was disturbed by our work…
Bottom Line: Why Choose irrigation Tech?
Because One Call to 1-877-8-IRRIGATE Does It All!