Are you looking for quality lawn sprinklers or a lawn sprinkler system?

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Allan Brookes here.

Lawn sprinklers or garden irrigation systems look awfully easy to install and design, don't they? This is however far from the truth.

By reading the information on my website you will learn enough to avoid making mistakes that end up costing you more money than necessary.

There are many lawn sprinkler and garden irrigation companies. Some are very good while many others are not.

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About A. A. Waters  & Brookes
Lawn sprinklers, garden & lawn irrigation systems.

Since 1987 A. A. Waters & Brookes has designed and installed lawn sprinkler and underground garden irrigation systems for residential and commercial customers.
We have a proven track record. Our years of hard work have paid off. Our business continues to grow through referrals of satisfied clients. For over 20 years, both residential and commercial water sprinklers or irrigation system customers have relied on A. A. Waters & Brookes to provide prompt, reliable and quality service.

Professional Engineers design it better!

A. A. Waters & Brookes is a certified irrigation contractor. All lawn sprinklers and garden  irrigation systems are designed by a professional engineer with over 30 years underground engineering design experience.  We have the people, experience and technical know-how to address jobs of all sizes, from designing residential lawn sprinklers to large commercial lawn irrigation systems, professional installation and ongoing service of your existing system. Management along with our experienced staff, believe in total cooperation with all other professionals involved with your project. 
Committed to 100% customer satisfaction.

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Lawn sprinklers, garden & lawn irrigation systems engineer designed and installed for customers in the greater Toronto area.

 Others imitate, but never duplicate the quality of our work.

We service and install lawn sprinklers and garden irrigation systems in Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Forest Hill, Rosedale, Aurora, Richmond Hill, Markham and the GTA

Head office 416 665 0052
50 Viceroy Rd Unit 13
Concord, Ontario
L4K 3A7
Satellite locations:
R. R. #3 Cobourg, Ontario
St. Catharines, Ontario
62 Rosedale Ave.

All A. A. Waters and Brookes lawn sprinklers and garden  irrigation systems are designed by a professional engineer with over 30 years underground engineering design experience.

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Simple facts about lawn sprinkler, lawn irrigation or garden irrigation system design and Installation

Make no mistake, a properly designed and installed lawn sprinkler or garden irrigation system provides you with years of trouble free performance. Underground irrigation systems must be properly engineered in order to perform properly and give you the longest, trouble free operation.

Things to watch out for  installation and design: include having too many heads on a single line (common problem) and mixing inappropriate heads with one another (common problem). These are common issues that cause unsatisfactory performance and premature system failure.

Water flows in a predictable, yet complicated manner and many contractors choose to ignore or most often do not know how to engineer good water flows. Improper design saves them on hiring costs and reduces bid pricing. It is however you that ends up with the extra costs and system lifespan reduction. Quite simply designing proper water flows is a job only a trained underground engineer can do.

Soil: The type of soil you have on your property must also be understood. Top soil comes in many different types. The soil types you have on your property dictate the watering rates, head type, time and quantity of water required. Failure to design a lawn or garden irrigation system for different soil types is a common problem that only a trained engineer understands and can properly design a system to accommodate.

Schedule a no obligation meeting. We'll review your specific requests, survey your property and provide you with an estimate and package that best fits your budget and needs.

Your lawn sprinkler or garden irrigation system will enjoy the latest in design techniques, and contain the latest technology in high quality components. Our highly experienced installation crews will use the proper equipment to work efficiently about your property, minimizing damage to grass and surrounding landscape areas.

For over 20 years, we have prided ourselves on doing what it takes to get the job done when it needs to be done.     Next

Lawn irrigation lawn watering, garden watering tips

Anyone having lawn sprinklers or garden sprinkler systems appreciates all of the advantages that having one gives. You no longer have to move your hoses all over the yard and straighten out all of the kinks and twists; you don't have to listen to the sprinkler hit the house, or wake up at 2am and realize you forgot to turn off the water. You wake and the lawn or garden is already watered. You come back from vacation and see a nice green lawn and a healthy garden instead of a brown one. The hours required to water your lawn is now spent as you wish. The irrigation system is more efficient and your water bills are often lower!  The following gives you advice on how to best achieve proper watering and a reasonable water bill.

Lawn sprinkler and garden irrigation systems help mother nature, not replace it. The more rain, the less you need to water. Less rain means more watering. Unfortunately, if your system isn't equipped to monitor conditions that affect your watering schedule it needs someone to tell it how much to water and when to water. You want your system to run only often enough to replace the water being evaporated out of the ground or percolating through it.

The type of soil in your yard is a factor. Different soils soak up water at different rates. If you water too fast or too long at one time, the excess water will run off into the sewer or neighbour's yard. Clay soils are slow to absorb water while sand absorbs very quickly. Soil type is very important because it most effects the way you water and the lawn or gardens irrigation system design. You want to water for extended periods of time, less frequently. This allows deep penetration of the root system and promotes deeper root growth. With deeper roots your lawn and garden will be healthier and more drought tolerant.

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It is better to water once a week for a long time than to water every day for a little bit. It is best you water your lawn early in the morning (3am- 8am). This time frame is good because it is the coolest temperature with the least amount of wind.

When setting the number of minutes to water each zone, keep in mind, you want to saturate the ground completely to encourage deep root growth without over-watering and creating run-off.  Watering your lawn and garden in one irrigation session is better than two shorter irrigation sessions. Increase the zone times until you find the lawn's saturation point. On the opposite side, you may find that it is too much water. Remember, you don't have to do all the watering at the same time. If your lawn needs time to soak up the water, you can schedule a repeat watering later in the same day (ex. 4am and again at 7am), with each watering half of the total desired time. Yards that are heavily sloped need to be treated in special way, each zone should run for a short period of time (about one third of the total time desired) and be repeated three times, one after another. This will give the water time to percolate into the soil between watering.

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Lawn, garden irrigation tips continued

After you have programmed the zone run times, you need to add up the total amount of minutes the system will water. Once you have done this, it is time to figure out when you want the system to start watering. The biggest factors are personal water use in the morning. it is always best to water early in the morning and it reduces the risk of fungus problems. If you water at night, the water will lay on the grass for several hours creating fungus conditions.

With proper maintenance and a watchful eye, lawn sprinkler systems can save you a lot of time and money. We hope we have given you enough information to help you accomplish this with your system. Remember, lawn and garden sprinkler systems will only do what you tell them to do, nothing less, nothing more. Give your irrigation system a little attention once in a while and you'll have a beautiful happy lawn, healthy trees, shrubs, flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Site Navigation

A. A. Waters & Brookes HOME

Testimonials

Automatic lawn irrigation systems

Our installation / maintenance services

Advantages of lawn & garden sprinkler systems

Our lawn & garden sprinkler system guarantees

Read our letters of recommendation
 

Accurate information on lawn and garden sprinklers and lawn irrigation helps you avoid mistakes or being taken.

Whether you become our customer or not the information on our site will help you!