08/10/2026
The irrigation system on a commercial property is usually the largest piece of infrastructure nobody inspects until it fails visibly.
A broken head sprays a wall for months before anyone notices, because it looks like it's working. A misaligned zone waters pavement on a schedule, and the only evidence is a water bill that crept up gradually enough to read as normal. A stuck valve runs a zone long after the controller says it stopped. None of these announce themselves, and all of them show up as cost with nothing to show for it, sometimes alongside turf that's simultaneously drowning in one area and burning in another.
An irrigation audit isn't complicated: run every zone manually, watch where the water actually lands, check pressure, confirm the controller schedule matches the season rather than whatever was set in April. On most commercial properties it takes a couple of hours and pays for itself inside a billing cycle or two, which is a rare thing in property maintenance.
August is the right month for it because usage is peaking, so problems are at their most visible and most expensive. If nobody's run your zones this season, that's the ask to make.
