Mid-Season Inspection
Prepare your sprinkler system for the mid-season heat!
What is a Mid-Season Inspection?
Our mid-season inspections are critical to the state of both your sprinkler system and your lawn. Even a small leak, maladjusted sprinkler head, or other minor malfunction can result in water waste and that waste can have a detrimental effect on your water bill. It can also cause significant damage to your lawn. By scheduling a mid-season inspection with our technicians, you can avoid the expense and stress of dealing with a damaged sprinkler system.
What’s included in the Mid-Season Inspection?
When we come out to perform your inspection, we’ll:
- Inspect and adjust all heads
- Adjust watering times, zone by zone, according to seasonality and root development
- Flag all problem areas and report them to you
Planning a short summer getaway?
Worried about who will water the yard?
No problem. If you have a smart controller and once your irrigation system is programmed, it will run itself.
Precisely at the scheduled time, your lawn and garden areas will get the attention they need to stand up to the hot summer sun.
Tips to Beat the Heat
Don’t Mow the Lawn
That’s right. Sit in a chair, grab a book, lounge in the pool – whatever you’d like! Mowing the grass during a heatwave puts additional stress on it.
If possible, raise the deck of your mower to 2.5-3” and mow just enough to keep your yard tidy.
Doing this, paired with a proper watering schedule will keep your lawn looking much greener and healthier.
Enable Smart Watering
A perk that all our customers with the Hunter Industries “Hydrawise” app are entitled to:
Smart Watering – an automated watering schedule that uses information about your local environmental conditions to ensure your plants get the optimum amount of water
Feel free to contact us today as to how you can upgrade your controller to get set up with Hydrawise so that stressing over your water schedule becomes a thing of the past.
Consider Drip Irrigation
Drip Irrigation or “soaker hoses” are essentially professionally manufactured garden hoses with holes down the length. These hoses are set up along the ground within the desired garden area or throughout a grouping of potted plants to directly deliver water into soil keeping the plant leaves dry and preventing evaporation and water waste.
These “drip zones” can also be set up to run at specific or additional times, just like the rest of your sprinkler system, as to better cater to the needs of the specific plant life they are watering.
Be Prepared
Whenever a heatwave is predicted, deeply water your lawn and plant life about 24-48 hours before the onset is expected.
Be sure to also top off your soil/mulch especially in vegetable beds and around new transplants.
If your plants and soil are dry going into the heatwave, they’ll have much less of a chance of surviving without the extra help beforehand and the assistance of a consistent watering schedule throughout.
Timing is Everything
The early hours of the morning (generally between 2AM – 6AM) would be the most prime time to run your sprinkler system.
When everything is cooler, you’ll get the best water absorption. If you tend to schedule your system to water later in the day instead, particularly if it’s bright, warm, and windy, the heat of the sun and force of the wind can rob your grass and other plantings of much needed hydration. If you get the job done before dawn, you’re giving the water the best chance of reaching the roots and being fully utilized.