Reticulation and repairs in Mandurah
New systems and repairs across Mandurah and Peel. On sand, reticulation is not a luxury — it is the difference between a lawn that survives February and one that does not.
- Starts from
- starting price to confirm
- Time on site
- typical timeframe to confirm
- Covers
- New systems, repairs and controllers
- Zoning
- Lawn, beds and drip on separate stations
About reticulation
Why sand changes the whole equation
Mandurah soil is largely sand. Water moves through it fast and takes dissolved nutrients with it, which means a hand-watered lawn here is not merely inconvenient — it genuinely struggles, because you cannot deliver water often enough or evenly enough by hose to keep up with what the ground lets through.
It also means more water is not the answer. Water applied faster than the root zone can use it simply passes below the roots and is gone. A correctly designed system applies the right amount to the right zone at the right time, which usually uses less water than the hose it replaces while producing a far better result.
Zoning is what separates a good system from a bad one
The single most common fault in an older system is that everything is on one station. Lawn, garden beds and pots have completely different water requirements, and running them together means either the lawn is underwatered or the beds are drowned — usually both, in different corners.
A properly zoned system puts lawn on its own stations, garden beds on others, and uses drip where drip belongs — in beds and around established plants, where water goes into the soil rather than into the air. Drip also loses far less to evaporation and wind, which is not a small factor on an exposed coastal block.
The watering roster and winter sprinkler ban
Perth and Peel operate a scheme-water sprinkler roster, and there is a winter sprinkler ban over the cooler months. A controller programmed without those in mind either breaches the roster or waters at the wrong time of year, and an unprogrammed controller left on a factory default is doing neither you nor the lawn any favours.
Setting a controller correctly for your roster day and season is a five-minute job that a lot of systems have never had done. If yours is running and you are not sure what it is doing, that alone is worth a look.
Repairs — usually cheaper than you expect
Most reticulation faults are repairs, not replacements. Solenoids fail and a station stops turning on or refuses to turn off. Poly pipe splits, often where a root has grown against it or where something has been dug near it. Sprinkler heads get mown off, blocked with sand, or knocked out of alignment so they water the fence rather than the lawn. Controllers lose their program after a power interruption.
None of those are a reason to replace a system. We will tell you plainly if a system genuinely is past sensible repair — old, brittle, badly laid out and failing in several places at once — rather than quietly quoting a new one for a broken solenoid.
What you get
Included as standard
- Design and zoning suited to your yard rather than a standard layout
- Trenching, pipework, valves, heads and controller
- Controller programmed for your sprinkler roster day and the season
- Testing every station and adjusting head coverage before we leave
- Site tidied and turf or mulch reinstated over trenches
Not included
- Water Corporation connection or meter work
- Bore installation or bore pump work
- Electrical work beyond connecting a standard controller
- Repairing damage from third parties digging through lines afterwards
Any of these can be quoted alongside the job — they are listed so the quote does not surprise you, not because we cannot do them.
Reticulation we have done
PlaceholderBefore and after pairs from real reticulation jobs go here, captioned with the suburb and the scope. Every service page needs at least one pair — if a job has no photographs, it was not documented on site, which is a process to fix rather than a section to remove.
Before — photograph to be supplied
After — photograph to be supplied
What affects the cost
For a new system, it is area and complexity — the number of stations needed, how far the run is from the water source and the controller position, and how much of the yard is lawn versus bed versus drip.
What is already in the ground matters just as much. Trenching through open sand before a lawn goes down is straightforward; retrofitting a system into an established garden with mature roots, existing paving and a lawn that has to be lifted and put back is a materially bigger job.
For repairs, it is diagnosis time plus parts. A single failed solenoid is a small job. A system with several faults, no documentation and pipework nobody can locate takes longer to find than to fix.
How it works
You get in touch
Tell us what needs doing — a photo helps more than a paragraph. We come back to you within response time to confirm.
We measure it up
We come to the property, walk the job with you and measure properly. The measure is cost and obligation to confirm.
You get it in writing
An itemised written quote — materials, labour and removal priced separately, so you can see what you are paying for. It holds for number of days to confirm.
We book it in and do it
We agree a date, turn up on it, and take the mess with us when we go. The site is left clean.
Common questions
My retic runs but one station will not turn on. What is it?
Most commonly a failed solenoid on that station's valve, or a wiring fault back to the controller. Both are ordinary repairs. If the station will not turn off instead, it is usually debris holding the valve open — also a repair.
Can you set up my controller for the sprinkler roster?
Yes. It is a small job and a surprising number of systems have never had it done properly. We set your roster day, the seasonal run times and the winter behaviour so the system is doing what it should rather than what it was doing when it left the factory.
Is it worth repairing an old system or should I replace it?
Usually repairing. The exception is a system that is old, brittle and failing in several places at once, where you will be back every few months chasing the next split. We will tell you which one you have rather than defaulting to the bigger job.
Do you do bores?
Bore installation and bore pump work are not part of what the crew does. We can work with an existing bore supply on the reticulation side of it.
Should the retic go in before or after the lawn?
Before, always. Laying turf and then trenching through it means lifting new lawn to dig, and it never quite knits back the same way. If you are doing a whole yard, get the sequence sorted before anything is delivered.
We also do
Doing the garden? The paving, the retaining wall and the fence around it can be sequenced into the same job — which matters, because machinery needs to get in before the lawn goes down, not after.
Fencing & Gates
Colorbond, pool, aluminium slat, tubular and PVC fencing, plus gates from a single side gate to a full automated entry. Removal of the old fence included, across Mandurah and Peel.
Paving & Patios
Paving, patios and decking, retaining walls, concrete paths and curbing, and soakwells — built for sandy ground and coastal weather, across Mandurah and Peel.
Tell us what needs doing.
A written, itemised quote after we have measured the job — not a number guessed over the phone.