A lush, green lawn boosts the curb appeal of any property—but achieving that look takes a serious commitment and a lot of physical effort, especially when it comes to watering. Property owners can automate the watering process to save work, worry, and water with an automatic landscape irrigation system. Automated irrigation systems follow a custom or weather-determined schedule and turn on when plants need water, and off when they don’t.
Just like people, most plants thrive on a steady, well-regulated schedule of water and nutrients. You can count on an automatic sprinkler system to provide a carefully timed, precisely measured amount of life-giving water to your landscape, exactly when and where it’s needed. This intelligently controlled method of dispensing of water actually saves water and reduces your water bill and your plants will be healthier and live longer.
It Rains a Lot in Upstate New York, So Why Should I Install a Landscape Irrigation System?
If it rained every three days, depositing the same amount of water each time, you probably wouldn’t need an irrigation system. But nature doesn’t work that way. In the dry season when there is little or no rain, your lawn and landscape can suffer damage after just a few days without water. The only way to ensure healthy, lush growth is to make certain your lawn and plants receive a regularly timed, evenly measured amount of water. To learn more about the monthly variances in rainfall since 1940 click here to visit the National Weather Service website.
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Six Benefits of a Landscape Irrigation System
1. Convenient, clean & certain: saves time, effort & worry
When you water by hand, it can be hard to provide sufficient water for all parts of the lawn. It’s also time-consuming – and dirty work – to set up sprinklers and spray plantings every day or every other day. And, it can be exhausting, or expensive if you have to pay someone else to do the work. Unless you love getting up at dawn, lugging a hose around and slogging through wet grass, or paying someone else to do it, you can have a lush lawn and garden that’s the envy of your neighborhood without rising early or lifting a finger by installing a landscape irrigation system to keep your landscape lush and vibrant.
Lawn irrigation systems are designed with timers to automatically water at specific intervals on specific days of the week so that you can forget about watering, get on with living, and do other more important, exciting or relaxing things – knowing that your lawn and landscape will receive the right amount of water – when you’re not around.
A professionally designed underground lawn sprinkler system does all the remembering and all the watering for you. Just set it and forget it! The system runs itself. You’ll avoid wasting water on the driveway or sidewalk, have more even and appropriate coverage of your lawn and planting areas, greener grass, healthier looking plants, and lots of free time to spend smelling the roses instead of watering them.
2. Efficient: saves water, avoids waste & is better for plantings
How many times have you forgotten that the water was running outside, only to remember an hour or two too late – after hundreds of gallons have flooded your yard or drained onto the street? An automatic sprinkler system can save literally thousands of gallons of water each year simply by remembering to turn itself off at the right time.
Additionally, underground, automatic landscape irrigation systems are designed to provide optimal and consistent water distribution and consequently use much less water than manual watering methods that rely on a hose or portable sprinkler. Delivering specific amounts of water at regular and optimal intervals (e.g., in the early morning when the water can soak into the cool soil) helps manage water usage and eliminates inefficient mid-day watering which evaporates before it has a chance to soak into the soil.
A WiFi controller linked to a local weather service delivers even more efficient and effective water distribution. These controllers automatically and dynamically adjust water use depending on forecasted and actual rainfall and stop the watering system from turning on when rain is expected or falling. And you can operate them from anywhere with a smartphone or other WiFi connected device.
3. Improves the aesthetic appeal of your property
From grass to flowers to vegetable gardens, all plants require a regular amount of water to stay healthy. Irrigating by hand often leads to under and overwatering that is tough on foliage and above ground sprinklers and hoses are unsightly. Underground automatic irrigation systems are virtually invisible and ensure that every plant gets the right amount of water to stay green and gorgeous to maintain the health and beauty of residential and commercial lawns and landscapes simply, efficiently, and effectively.
4. Simplicity and certainty; worry less, relax & enjoy more
You might not always be around to water the lawn when it needs it. Since automatic watering systems follow a programmed schedule, they always turn on when they should—regardless of whether you’re on vacation or spending a long day in the office.
From faulty sprayers to garden hose leaks, self-irrigation methods often require a lot of inconvenient and messy upkeep to remain functional. Rather than wasting time on hose, sprayer, and sprinkler maintenance, you worry less, relax, and enjoy your landscape more if you have an underground irrigation system installed and serviced by professionals who can troubleshoot and repair problems if they arise.
5. Safeguards your landscape investment
A professionally installed automatic sprinkler system by Irrigation Tech is one of the best investments you can make in your home; just ask anyone who has one. There’s no easier or cost-effective way to safeguard the time, effort, and money you have invested in your landscape, beautify your home during the growing season, and save yourself a lot of work, worry, and water.
Because your home’s appearance is an important factor in determining its perceived market value, an attractively landscaped exterior, complete with lush growth and healthy plants and a virtually invisible underground irrigation system, will help your home project a freshly, well-maintained look that can enhance the perceived value of your home.
6. An automatic irrigation system is better for the environment than hand watering
At Irrigation Tech, we’re proud that the systems we install are designed to provide the most efficient use of our planet’s most valuable resource – water. We’re also proud of the fact that our systems promote lush, beautiful landscapes, and support photosynthesis – a plant process that improves our environment by consuming harmful carbon dioxide emissions and converting them to oxygen that we all need to breathe.
When it’s time to start-up, reset, inspect, repair, refurbish, upgrade, expand, replace, or winterize your lawn sprinkler system, turn to the professionals at Irrigation Tech in Pittsford, NY. Our team of irrigation experts has been installing and servicing high-quality residential and commercial systems throughout Monroe County and The Finger Lakes Region for nearly 40 years. We’re fully certified backflow prevention specialists who can perform annual NYS-required backflow tests and ensure you have access to the latest innovations in irrigation systems and quality installation. We’ve also been chosen by the Irrigation Association twice as one of the Top 100 Contractors in the country. To learn more about the Irrigation Tech team, visit our website or call (877) 8-IRRIGATE to speak with a customer service representative.