Commercial & HOA irrigation in Raleigh, NC.
Multi-property irrigation, maintenance, backflow compliance, and drainage for Raleigh businesses, HOAs, and property managers — one accountable contractor, scheduled and reported.
What Raleigh homeowners should know
- Commercial backflow is annual in Raleigh. Raleigh Water requires commercial irrigation backflow testing every year by July 1 — we track and file it for each property.
- Large clay lots need real drainage. Common areas and parking islands on Raleigh clay pool water fast; we handle irrigation and drainage together.
- Reclaimed water is common for HOAs. Many Raleigh-area communities run on reclaimed water — we manage systems to match its rules and schedule.
Predictable service across multiple sites
Commercial and HOA systems fail differently than a home system: bigger zones, more heads, tighter compliance, and a manager who needs it handled without a dozen phone calls. We run scheduled maintenance, fast repairs, and annual backflow compliance across multiple Raleigh-area properties — with clear reporting so you always know where each site stands.
And because we do drainage as well as irrigation, we can solve the standing-water and grading problems that plague large clay lots and common areas — the ones that usually need a second contractor.
For businesses, HOAs, and property managers
Multi-property maintenance
Scheduled service across your portfolio, with consistent standards and reporting for each site.
Commercial backflow compliance
Annual RPZ testing, repair, and filing with Raleigh Water for every property. See backflow.
Large-system repair
Zone, valve, mainline, and controller repairs on bigger commercial and common-area systems.
Drainage & standing water
French drains and grading for parking islands, common areas, and clay lots. See drainage.
Water management & controllers
Smart and central control to cut usage and keep sites compliant during conservation stages.
Scheduling & reporting
Planned visits and clear documentation so nothing slips and budgets stay predictable.
One contact, and a record you can hand over
The recurring problem on managed property is not technical. It is that nobody knows what is buried where, because the system was installed by one contractor, extended by another, and repaired by whoever was cheapest that quarter. Every new manager starts from nothing.
So we map as we go and leave you the map. Valve locations, zone coverage, controller programming and what was replaced when. It takes us very little extra time on site and it means the next person to open a valve box — whether that is us or somebody else — is not paying to rediscover the property.
Billing and approvals work the way boards need them to: a diagnosis and a written number before work starts, separated into what is urgent and what can go in next year’s budget. Nobody has to explain a surprise invoice at a meeting.
Commercial & HOA FAQ
Do you work with property managers and HOA boards?
Yes — scheduled service, clear reporting, and predictable pricing are exactly what we’re set up for across multiple Raleigh-area sites.
How often is commercial backflow testing required in Raleigh?
Commercial irrigation backflow is tested annually by July 1 with Raleigh Water — we track the deadline and file for each property.
Can you handle multiple properties on one schedule?
Absolutely — we service portfolios on a planned schedule with consistent standards and per-site reporting.
Do you do drainage for common areas?
Yes — standing water on clay lots and common areas is a specialty. See drainage.
How is commercial work billed?
We scope and price the work upfront by property and scope — no surprise invoices.
How we work with you
Site assessment
We walk each property, document the systems, and flag compliance and problem areas.
Maintenance & repair plan
A clear scope and schedule for service, backflow, and any repairs — priced upfront.
Scheduled service
Planned visits keep systems running and compliant without you chasing us.
Reporting
Documentation for each site so managers and boards always know the status.
Who owns the system, and who is paying for it
On a single-family house that takes two seconds. On managed property it can take a season of email. An HOA system routinely waters common area, an entrance island, and a strip the plat says belongs to the lot behind it, all from one controller on one meter. Commercial sites have the same problem in a different coat: a landlord who owns the pipe, a tenant who holds the lease, and a lease silent on which pays when a valve fails.
So we ask before we quote, in writing. Which zones serve common ground. Whose meter the water runs through. Who signs, and at what point a signature has to become a board vote. None of it is technical or billable, and it heads off the conversation where a repair is finished, correct, and disputed for six weeks.
Where it genuinely is not clear we say so and price the diagnosis alone, so the argument happens before anybody spends money on pipe.
A backflow lapse follows the account, not the contractor
Raleigh Water tests residential assemblies every three years. Commercial irrigation is annual, by July 1, and the certification belongs to the tester rather than the firm on the invoice: City of Raleigh certification, filed online by whoever performed it. Chapel Hill sits with OWASA, also annual.
What catches managers out is where the record lives. A missed year is not a note in our file. It attaches to the water account, which is to say the property, which is to say you — and it is still there when the property changes hands. Nobody at the utility cares which contractor was supposed to have handled it.
That is the argument for testing in spring rather than the last week of June. An assembly that fails still has to be repaired and retested before the deadline, and parts for a large commercial device are not always on a shelf. Tested in April, a failure is an inconvenience. Tested on June 28 it is a compliance problem. See backflow testing.
Servicing irrigation on a property that is in use
A house has one household to work around. A shopping center has customers from ten, a landscape crew every Tuesday, and a restaurant that would rather nobody trenched across the patio at lunch. Most of the friction on commercial work is scheduling, not plumbing.
Two things we want on the first visit: your mowing day and your opening hours. Watering should finish well before the first, because clay soaked overnight takes mower ruts and holds them until August, and well before the second, because a rotor throwing across an entrance is the sort of complaint that reaches a board.
The mowing crew is also, quietly, the largest single cause of head damage on managed ground, and it never gets reported. A deck clips a riser, the head weeps for a month, and the first anyone knows is a wet stripe of grass. We would rather tell you which four heads keep dying and why than replace the same four every spring. See scheduled maintenance.
Where we work
These link to our area pages — what yards are like in each part of the Triangle and how we handle them. Every service on this page is available in all ten.
Talk to us about your properties
Tell us how many sites — we’ll build a service plan.
- Insured and licensed in NC
- Priced up front, nothing added later
- Twelve-month warranty on our labor
Managing irrigation across multiple sites?
Call or text for scheduled service, compliance, and reporting.