San Antonio Pro Landscape installs, repairs, and maintains residential and commercial irrigation systems throughout San Antonio and Bexar County. A well-designed irrigation system for a San Antonio property does more than water your lawn and landscape — it operates in full compliance with SAWS Stage 1 through Stage 3 restrictions, uses water intelligently to reduce utility costs, and is designed to perform in the specific soil and root-zone conditions that caliche presents.
SAWS Compliance: The Starting Point for Every Installation
Every irrigation system we install in San Antonio is designed and programmed for full SAWS compliance from day one. SAWS operates seasonal watering restrictions from Stage 1 through Stage 3. Stage 1 permits irrigation twice weekly on designated schedule days. Stage 2 restricts irrigation to once weekly. Stage 3 limits to hand watering only. Our installations use smart controllers with SAWS-compatible programming, rain sensors that interrupt irrigation when rainfall has occurred, and zone-specific scheduling that delivers water only on your permitted days and during the allowed hours before 10am and after 8pm.
We update controller programming at no charge whenever SAWS moves between restriction stages — you do not need to manage the schedule yourself.
Drip Irrigation vs. Spray Heads: What Performs Better in Bexar County
For landscape beds and foundation plantings, drip irrigation is almost always the better choice in San Antonio. Drip systems deliver water directly to the root zone, eliminate the evaporation losses that spray heads produce in San Antonio’s dry heat, and are significantly more compliant with SAWS water-wise guidelines. Spray heads are appropriate for turf areas covered by a regular lawn care program where uniform coverage is required. The most efficient San Antonio irrigation systems combine drip zones for all planting beds with pop-up spray heads for lawn areas — this hybrid approach typically reduces water consumption by 30 to 50 percent compared to all-spray systems.
Caliche and Irrigation Installation: What It Changes
Caliche affects irrigation installation in two important ways. The same caliche challenges that affect hardscape base installation through caliche apply to irrigation trenching. Installing mainline pipe and valve boxes through caliche requires pneumatic breaking or directional boring rather than standard trenching — we factor this into every installation estimate for Bexar County properties. Second, caliche’s impermeability means water cannot penetrate below the hardpan, which concentrates root zones above it and can create waterlogging conditions if irrigation is over-applied. We design zone schedules specifically to account for the caliche layer depth on your property. This is the same caliche substrate that requires specialized preparation for hardscape installation throughout Bexar County.
Irrigation Repair: All Brands, All Systems
We repair all brands and configurations of residential and commercial irrigation systems in San Antonio. Common repairs include broken spray heads and pop-up bodies, failed zone valves, cracked or leaking mainline pipe, malfunctioning rain sensors, and controller programming errors that cause SAWS violations. We diagnose the system correctly on the first visit and repair it completely — we do not patch problems that need a full fix.
Smart Controller Upgrades: The SAWS Savings Opportunity
If your San Antonio property has an older irrigation controller without weather-based scheduling, a smart controller upgrade is one of the highest-ROI irrigation investments available. Smart controllers connected to local weather data reduce irrigation by 30 to 50 percent compared to fixed-schedule controllers by skipping or reducing cycles when rainfall has occurred or when evapotranspiration rates are low. SAWS offers rebates on smart controller upgrades — we help you document the installation for rebate submission.
Irrigation Pricing in San Antonio
New irrigation system installation for a standard Bexar County residential property runs $2,500 to $5,500 depending on lot size, zone count, and whether caliche breaking is required. Smart controller upgrades run $350 to $600 installed. Annual spring startup and audit service runs $85 to $150. Repair pricing is diagnostic — we quote the specific repair after assessment. Contact us at (210) XXX-XXXX for a free irrigation consultation.
