IRRIGATION INSTALLATION
Irrigation Installation
Treasurescapes is a registered landscape architect specializing in irrigation installations. With 30 years of experience in irrigation installation and design for residential and commercial landscapes, Treasurescapes knows specific landscape watering needs for each plant type. A poorly designed and constructed irrigation system can result in costly leaks and unhealthy foliage. Keep your expensive landscape alive and well; contact Treasurescapes today for a landscape irrigation consultation.
Irrigation Installation for South Florida Homes
A South Florida irrigation system has one job that’s harder than it looks: keep a lawn and landscape healthy through brutal summer heat and a six-month hurricane season, while staying inside strict, permanent watering rules that don’t bend for a hot week.
Professional irrigation installation from Treasurescapes is built around that reality, not a generic sprinkler layout — the same 30-year, Houzz-recognized team behind our landscape design work engineers every system for South Florida’s climate and
regulations from the first zone.
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Built Around SFWMD’s Rules, Not Around Guesswork
South Florida Water Management District’s Year-Round Landscape Irrigation Rule isn’t a temporary drought order — it’s a mandatory, permanent restriction that applies every week of the year:
- Odd-numbered addresses: irrigate only Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Saturdays.
- Even-numbered addresses: irrigate only Tuesdays, Thursdays, and/or Sundays.
- Every address, every day: irrigation is prohibited between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m
A properly installed system with a working rain sensor and correctly zoned run times makes compliance automatic instead of something you have to remember. A system installed without SFWMD’s schedule in mind just means more manual overrides — and more risk of a compliance citation.
What UF/IFAS Actually Recommends — and How We Build to It
UF/IFAS Extension’s own irrigation guidance (most recently reaffirmed in a University of Florida Mid-Florida Research and Education Center post published this week) isn’t “water on a fixed schedule” — it’s watch the lawn and water precisely:
- Apply ½ to ¾ inch of water when turfgrass shows visible stress: a bluish-gray cast, leaf blades folding lengthwise, or footprints that don’t spring back. UF/IFAS Mid-Florida REC, Summer Lawn and Irrigation Care.
- Irrigate just before or around sunrise — this minimizes evaporation loss and avoids the prolonged leaf wetness that invites turf disease.
- A rain sensor set at a 0.25-inch threshold measurably cuts unnecessary irrigation cycles.
- Smart controllers using soil-moisture sensors or evapotranspiration (ET) data outperform fixed-schedule timers. UF/IFAS AE436, Turf and Landscape Irrigation Recommendations.
Every Treasurescapes irrigation installation is zoned, timed, and equipped to this exact standard — not a stock national default.
Hurricane Season Is the Wrong Time to Discover a Bad System
We’re in the peak stretch of the Atlantic hurricane season right now — NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts August through October as the most active window, and even in a below-normal year, the agency’s guidance is direct: it only takes one storm.
Irrigation lines, valves, and controllers take real punishment from wind-driven debris and flooding. A system installed with buried, properly protected wiring and a controller rated for outdoor exposure recovers faster — and a pre-season or post-storm system check catches damage before it shows up as a dead section of lawn.
Schedule a system check before your next storm.
What’s Included in a Treasurescapes Irrigation Installation
- On-site consultation — zoning is planned around your property’s actual sun exposure, soil, and plant mix, not a generic layout.
- SFWMD-schedule-ready zoning and controller programming.
- Rain sensor installation, calibrated to the 0.25-inch UF/IFAS-recommended threshold.
- Smart controller options (soil-moisture or ET-based) for homeowners who want to go beyond the minimum.
- Drip zones for beds and planters, separated from turf zones, so overwatering ornamentals to keep grass alive (or vice versa) isn’t a tradeoff.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What days can I legally run my irrigation system in Palm Beach, Broward, orMartin County?
Under SFWMD’s year-round rule, odd-numbered addresses may irrigate Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Saturdays; even-numbered addresses Tuesdays, Thursdays, and/or Sundays — never between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Some local governments layer additional restrictions on top, which we confirm during your consultation.
2. Do I really need a rain sensor?
Florida law requires one on automatic irrigation systems, and UF/IFAS research shows a properly calibrated sensor meaningfully cuts unnecessary watering — it usually pays for itself in water savings.
3. How much water does my lawn actually need?
UF/IFAS guidance is to water based on visible stress signs — a bluish-gray cast, folded blades, footprints that don’t spring back — applying ½ to ¾ inch when they appear, rather than a fixed weekly amount.
4. Can my irrigation system survive a hurricane?
A well-installed system with properly buried wiring and a storm-rated controller holds up far better than a bargain installation. We also offer post-storm system checks.
5. Do you install smart/ET-based controllers?
Yes — in addition to standard SFWMD-compliant timer setups, we install soil-moisture and evapotranspiration-based smart controllers for homeowners who want tighter water efficiency.
6. Ready for a System Built for South Florida’s Rules and Climate?
Get your irrigation system installed — or checked before storm season peaks further — with a free on-site consultation.
