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Reticulation Lakelands
Reticulation Lakelands — 32 local jobs completed, every single one inside the last two years. New suburb, new lawns, and we're already part of the furniture. We completed 20 jobs in Lakelands in 2025.
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Your local Lakelands reticulation team
Most of our Lakelands work rides in with the new builds: landscape packages on fresh blocks, retic designed on site around a flow test because pressure isn't the same from one lot to the next, and limestone caprock waiting under more turf areas than you'd think. Public open space and council-spec compliance work rounds it out — City of Mandurah rules, met properly. We're about 42 km from our Jandakot depot, and Lakelands sits on our regular southern runs — same-week bookings are the norm, not the exception.
This limestone-derived sand holds little water, favouring brief, frequent irrigation runs. Alkaline soil and caprock are normal here — worth knowing before any retic excavation. Domestic bores perform well across this sand-plain suburb, and an older bore is often worth servicing rather than abandoning. Bore watering follows the standard 2-day roster and the June-August sprinkler switch-off. Expect ~865mm annually per the Halls Head gauge, heavily winter-weighted (~80% May-Sep): summer is effectively rain-free, so summer run times carry the garden. Lakelands is roughly 42 km from our Jandakot depot — same-week bookings are the norm, not the exception.
We’re a Water Corporation Waterwise Garden Irrigator and an Irrigation Australia member, every job is backed by our workmanship warranty, and we’re rated 4.7 from 230 Google reviews.
Reticulation help in Lakelands & nearby
We also look after Madora Bay, Meadow Springs, Singleton, Parklands, Golden Bay, Keralup, Karnup and the wider Perth metro. Read our pricing guide or call to get started.
Nearby: Madora Bay · Meadow Springs · Singleton · Parklands · Golden Bay · Keralup · Karnup
What does Lakelands’s soil and water mean for your retic?
Soil — Spearwood sands. This limestone-derived sand holds little water, favouring a watering-day run split into two shorter cycles. Alkaline soil and caprock are normal here — worth knowing before any retic excavation.
Groundwater & bores. Good bore country: the superficial aquifer is within practical drilling reach under these sands. Watering from a bore costs pumping power rather than scheme rates — with the same 2-day roster and winter ban as everyone else.
Rainfall — about 865mm a year. About 865mm a year (Halls Head), with ~80% arriving May-September — a smart controller with seasonal adjust handles the swing, and winter watering is largely unnecessary even before the ban.
Sources: DPIRD-064 Soil Landscape Systems (SLIP) · DWER Perth Groundwater Map / Water Corp groundwater areas (band-level) · BOM station 009572 Halls Head climate averages · Water Corporation watering roster (verified Jul 2026)
Customer stories from Lakelands
The new builds with limestone underneath
a Perth home builder
A good share of our Lakelands work is landscape packages for a Perth home builder — retic, turf and planting delivered on brand-new blocks. Lakelands makes the crews earn it: limestone rock has to come out before a turf area can even be levelled, hard digging through caprock is routine, and when a driveway sleeve turns out to be missing, the paving comes up and goes back down properly.
The retic under those packages is built to a consistent spec: master valve and mainline in first, pop-up sprinklers set just inside the turf lines, drippers on every tree, and staggered start times programmed so new turf gets several short drinks a day while it establishes, under the Water Corporation establishment exemption that a newly laid lawn qualifies for. Every system is flow-tested and designed on site. New estate — but nothing about the install is cookie-cutter.
Lowering valves to council spec in a public reserve
Estate handover work has its own rulebook. In one Lakelands public open space, four solenoid valves sat too high to pass City of Mandurah spec — so all four were located and hand-dug, the mainline drained down and the water cleared, and each valve rebuilt back onto the main at the correct height, with the lateral pipework modified to suit and the valve boxes reset flush at the required level.
Every station was then run and tested, and the reserve left clean with the waste carted off. Not glamorous — just the compliance work that gets a new estate over the line.
The brand-new lawn that was "dying"
the same home builder
A few weeks after one package went in, the report came through: lawn dying, check the retic. On site, both tap timers told the story — one had its watering days deleted, the other had its run time removed and was sitting in the off position. Someone had had a go at reprogramming them and hadn't quite got there.
We reprogrammed both timers, ran the system and checked the sprinkler coverage head by head: no fault anywhere. It was the same site where the original install had meant lifting paving to get pipework through and supplying a second tap timer because the main dwelling had no retic cut-in — new builds throw curveballs, and the difference is whether they get handled.
A Lakelands controller running at random times
A Lakelands property reported two things: a broken reticulation pipe at the front, and a controller that had started running at random times after being set up. Our technician found the leak at the solenoid valve socket and the PVC pipe, and repaired it. Both stations were then tested and a blocked nozzle replaced. The controller was reprogrammed to the property's rostered watering days. Random or unexpected start times almost always come down to programming rather than a faulty unit — most controllers support several independent programs, each with multiple start times, and a schedule entered into the wrong program, or an old start time left in place, produces watering that looks arbitrary. Clearing the unused programs is as much a part of setting a controller as entering the right one.
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Our work in Lakelands
Reticulation Repairs in Lakelands
Broken pop-ups, a leaking solenoid, dry patches or a controller that’s lost the plot? Our fully-equipped technicians diagnose and fix most Lakelandsfaults on the spot. Repairs aren’t quoted – call us and we’ll book the visit.
New Systems in Lakelands
Putting in a new lawn or upgrading a tired system? We design and install fully automated, waterwise reticulation for Lakelandshomes. Book a paid site assessment — credited in full to your install if you accept the quote within 30 days.
Hear From Our Happy Customers...
"John was friendly and very helpful, I can't think of anything that could have been done better, I had a problem I could not fix, I needed an expert and would definitely recommend you guys to anyone who has retic issues!"
"Great service, on time. Friendly."
"I would like to compliment Justin on his professional, efficient and outstanding job that he did Very knowledgeable and patient with attention to detail Would highly recommend Thank you"
"Tom and the PRE team did a terrific job fixing our complicated system. Everyone we interacted with was affable and highly competent. We will use them again as and when necessary. Highly recommend!"
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Reticulation Lakelands FAQs
More often it's programming than plumbing. New turf needs several short watering starts a day while it establishes — more than the roster allows on its own, so it needs a Water Corporation watering exemption, applied for on the day the turf goes down and wound back to your rostered days when it expires. Tap timers are easily knocked off their program — we've attended a "dying lawn" in Lakelands where one timer had its watering days deleted and the other was switched off entirely. We verify coverage and reset the program before assuming anything is broken.
Often, yes — caprock sits close to the surface here, and we've carted out serious rock just to level turf areas on new builds. We flow-test and design on site and flag likely hard digging up front, so nothing about the ground comes as a surprise mid-job.
Yes, though unirrigated verges are encouraged. Lakelands is in the City of Mandurah. Hardstand and semi-permeable treatments including crossovers and footpaths are calculated as a percentage of total verge area, with a 50% hardstand allocation limit for verges.
Repairs aren't quoted — every system and fault is different, so you book a repair rather than a quote. The technician diagnoses and fixes on site, most faults in the same visit. If a larger job needs parts ordered, we'll tell you the cost before we proceed.