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Full services directory How it worksFor prosAbout Get matched Call (866) 582-8523It usually starts with brown patches in the same places every summer. The hard part is not the work — it is that every irrigation company sounds equally sure of itself, and you get one guess. We check licence and insurance before we introduce anyone, and we record the date we checked.
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Irrigation companies do five distinct things: design and install new systems, audit and tune existing ones, repair broken heads, valves and wiring, install and program controllers, and open and close systems seasonally. Installation is priced by zone — LatestCost puts a typical zone at about $350, with a range of roughly $200 to $700 including heads, valve, wiring and basic trenching. An audit is the cheapest service and often the highest value, because EPA WaterSense estimates about 50 percent of the water used for residential outdoor irrigation is wasted through overwatering and inefficiency.
Irrigation is priced by zone. LatestCost puts a typical zone at about $350, ranging roughly $200 to $700 including heads, valve, wiring and basic trenching, with a five-zone suburban system commonly landing between $2,000 and $3,500. Homewyse's May 2026 calculator puts basic sprinkler installation at roughly $1.04 to $1.91 per square foot of covered area. Recurring costs are smaller but real: LawnStarter puts winterization at $59 to $144 and spring reactivation at $45 to $140, and backflow testing commonly runs about $75 to $150 where it's required.
Everything we publish on irrigation, grouped the way homeowners actually search — not the way a company would organise it.
Most sites sell your number to whoever pays the most for it. We check the irrigation companies we match you with, and we publish the date we checked so you can hold us to it.
We look up the licence with the issuing state or local authority and record the date we checked it.
General liability and, where it applies, workers’ compensation — confirmed with the carrier, not taken on trust.
We read the recent negatives as well as the average, and we look at how the pro answered them.
A licence that lapses drops the pro out of matching. Every record carries the date it was last verified.
Ranges, with the source and the date underneath. Anyone quoting you a single national number is guessing, and you should know enough to notice.
No verified irrigation price ranges published yet.
We don’t publish a cost until we can show the data behind it. If you need a
number today, the quote form gives you real prices from local companies.
Three ways to get this work done. Here’s what each one actually gives you.
| HomeMatchup | Typical lead site | DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many companies call you | A short, named shortlist you agreed to | Often 4–5+ at once, sold to whoever buys the lead | None — the work is on you |
| Licence & insurance | Checked against the issuing authority, with a date on the record | Usually self-reported by the contractor | Your own permits and liability |
| What it costs you | Free — pros pay us, and only for a real match | Free, but your number is resold | Materials plus your time |
| Price guidance before you talk | Published ranges with the data behind them | Rarely shown before you hand over details | You research it yourself |
| If it goes wrong | You have a named, verified company and a record of the checks | Hard to trace which site sold the lead | No recourse |
Describes how HomeMatchup operates and the common lead-generation model. Not a claim about any named competitor.
We’d rather show you nothing than show you someone else’s reviews.
Plenty of sites fill this space with reviews scraped from elsewhere, or written for them. We don’t. The first irrigation review on this page will come from a homeowner we matched, after their work was finished and paid for.
The questions homeowners ask us most about irrigation.
The materials you'll actually be choosing between.
Irrigation is judged on coverage and paid for in water. Poor zoning waters the driveway on a timer for years. Getting matched takes about a minute, costs nothing, and you can walk away from every quote you receive.