Irrigation failures are slow. A head gets clipped by a mower and sprays sideways into a fence. A line cracks underground and the zone loses pressure. A timer resets after a power cut and runs half as long as it used to. Nothing about any of that is visible from the driveway — the first sign is a patch of lawn going pale, and by then the cause is weeks old.
The cheapest habit in South Florida landscaping is to run each zone by hand once a month and watch it. You are looking for heads that do not pop up, heads spraying the sidewalk, a mist instead of a stream (that means pressure is too high), and puddles that appear before the zone has finished (that means a break). Five minutes a zone catches nearly everything before it costs you plant material.
Coverage is the other half. Beds and lawn want different things — drip lines put water at the roots of a planting bed without soaking the mulch, while rotors and sprays suit open turf. Running both off one zone means one of them is always wrong. Splitting them is usually a smaller job than people assume, and it shows up on the water bill.
Green Toro Group installs and repairs irrigation across Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties. Call (786) 337-5461 — we answer 24/7, in Spanish or English.
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