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Heads Up Irrigation is Columbia, South Carolina’s premier trenchless irrigation company. Other irrigation or sprinkler companies leave you with unsightly trenches that can take years to repair and can create costly repairs for the homeowner because of sinking trenches and sod patching.

At Heads Up Irrigation, our goal is to leave your lawn better than we found it by using our trenchless irrigation method (see our Services page for more information on trenchless irrigation). Trenchless irrigation also allows for installation of your sprinkler system in just a few hours. Our highly experienced team of professionals can install, replace or service your irrigation or sprinkler system in a timely manner making you the envy of the neighborhood. Our design team can also plan an irrigation or sprinkler system for you that will optimize your water usage while ensuring a beautiful healthy lawn.

Heads Up Irrigation serves the Columbia area by installing, updating and servicing irrigation or sprinkler systems in the area. Our customers range from the large businesses, such as Erskine College, to the more modest needs of the average homeowner. No job is too big or too small. We will install any of your irrigation or sprinkler needs from one sprinkler head for a small garden to a 150-sprinkler head system for a new commercial building. If it needs water, we can get it there.

FAQs:

Question: What are the pros of automatic irrigation or sprinkler systems? Aren't they wasteful?

Answer: Automatic irrigation or sprinkler systems are convenient, especially for those who travel. If installed and programmed properly, automatic irrigation or sprinkler systems can even save you money and help in water conservation. Dead lawn, grass, and plants need to be replaced, and that can be expensive. But the savings from automatic irrigation or sprinkler systems can go beyond that. Watering with a hose or with an oscillator wastes water. Neither method targets plant roots with any significant degree of precision. Automatic irrigation or sprinkler systems can be programmed to discharge more precise amounts of water in a targeted area, which promotes water conservation.

Question: Is Sprinkler Installation a do-it-yourself project?

Answer: Installation of sprinkler systems should be handled by professionals, unless you’re good at making complex calculations. If you do decide on a do-it-yourself sprinkler installation, acquaint yourself first with whatever inspection codes for irrigation your town may have.

Question: How can rain sensors work with irrigation or sprinkler timers for water conservation?

Answer: Plants get thirstier in summer than during spring and fall, so program your irrigation or sprinkler timer accordingly, rather than always keeping the irrigation or sprinkler timer on the same setting. This will promote water conservation, as will watering at the right time of day and overriding irrigation or sprinkler timers with rain sensors.

The time of day when you irrigate is a factor in water conservation. If you program irrigation or sprinkler timers to go on early in the morning, you’ll lose less water to evaporation than if you were to irrigate in the heat of the day. For optimal water conservation, it will be necessary to override the irrigation timer of your automatic system, if your area receives heavy rains the night before your system is programmed to run. You’d only be pushing up your water bill unnecessarily. If you’d rather not have to bother overriding your system manually in such cases, install a rain sensor on your roof. Rain sensors can be tied into automatic systems, shutting them off for you after a period of rain.

Does the system provide "head-to-head" coverage?

One of the fundamentals of irrigation or sprinkler design is that each head hits the one to the left and right of it, and any other heads within its throw in order to provide even water coverage. Proper spacing of the sprinkler heads is the most important, for a lush green lawn.

Heads Up Irrigation does not cut corners on irrigation or sprinkler design, so you can be confident that your sprinkler heads will be properly spaced.

Are spray heads and rotors used on the same zone?

Different types of sprinkler heads put out different amounts of water and should never be installed on the same irrigation zone. Mixing sprinklers with different application rates causes one area to be over watered in order to sufficiently water another.

Heads Up Irrigation never mixes two different types of sprinklers on the same zone.

Heads Up Irrigation is fully licensed and insured.