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Reticulation Madeley
From northern suburbs staples like controller work to full new installs, our technicians have completed 28 jobs across Madeley. 5 of them in 2025.
✓ 24,000+ jobs completed across Perth · 28 local jobs completed in Madeley · ★ 4.7 from 236 Google reviews
Call (08) 6263 4644 to book a repair, or book a site assessment for a new system.
Mostly housing and facility irrigation maintenance
Every visit is backed by our workmanship warranty. We're a Water Corporation Waterwise Garden Irrigator and an Irrigation Australia member, with 230 Google reviews averaging 4.7 stars.
The Madeley work in our job system tells its own story: the most common call-outs here are controller work, servicing & tune-ups and sprinkler & pop-up repairs. 11 of our Madeley jobs landed in just the last two years, so the local knowledge is current — not folklore.
Verge planting and reticulation rules sit with the City of Wanneroo, while watering days come from the Water Corporation sprinkler roster, not the council — worth checking both before any verge retic work. Madeley is roughly 33 km from our Jandakot depot — same-week bookings are the norm, not the exception.
Our retic work here, year by year
- Homeowners & businesses
- Housing & facility maintenance programs
Show the numbers
| Year | Homeowners & businesses | Maintenance programs | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Our latest retic jobs here
Latest job here: September 2026. Since May 2026:
2 housing and facility maintenance jobs.
Updated monthly from our job records. We publish the month and the fault type only, never customer details.
Sand over limestone: what it means for your retic
Soil — Spearwood sands. Free-draining yellow sand with limestone often close beneath — great drainage, poor moisture holding. Splitting one watering into two cycles inside the same window suits it, and retic trenching can hit caprock.
Groundwater & bores. Groundwater under this part of the coastal plain is generally accessible, so a garden bore (new or revived) is a practical way to water without paying scheme rates. Water Corporation's roster and winter sprinkler ban still apply to bores.
Rainfall — about 718mm a year. Expect ~718mm annually per the Perth Metro gauge, heavily winter-weighted (~79% May-Sep): summer is effectively rain-free, so summer run times carry the garden.
Sources: DPIRD-064 Soil Landscape Systems (SLIP) · DWER Perth Groundwater Map / Water Corp groundwater areas (band-level) · BOM station 009225 Perth Metro climate averages · Water Corporation watering roster (verified Jul 2026)
From our Madeley job book
Choosing a tap timer you can actually operate in Madeley
A Madeley owner asked for two things to be replaced: the reticulation controller and the tap timer, the latter specifically for a better quality unit that was easier to follow. That request is worth taking seriously rather than treating as a preference.
A timer nobody can confidently program is a timer that gets left on a default schedule, switched off entirely, or set wrongly — and the most capable unit on the market is worthless if the person using it cannot see at a glance what it is going to do. Our technician fitted both units and repaired or replaced nozzles and pop-ups around the system.
Matching the controller to the person operating it matters as much as matching it to the number of stations, particularly where the owner intends to adjust the schedule with the seasons.
What we actually find in Madeley
Of our 28 Madeley jobs we read the 6 with the fullest, most recent notes — capped, and not a random sample. 3 involved controller and timer faults and 3 involved failed solenoids and valve coils, against 14% and 23% across the 1,781 Perth jobs sampled the same way. Counts overlap, because one job can carry both.
Need the same kind of help? Book a repair or arrange a site assessment.
Retic & sprinkler repairs
Broken pop-ups, a leaking solenoid, dry patches or a controller that’s lost the plot? Our fully-equipped technicians diagnose and fix most Madeley faults on the spot. Repairs aren’t quoted – call us and we’ll book the visit.
Not sure what’s wrong? Try our 5 checks before you call.
New irrigation systems
Putting in a new lawn or upgrading a tired system? We design and install fully automated, waterwise reticulation for Madeley homes. Book a paid site assessment — credited in full to your install if you accept the quote within 30 days.
Hear From Our Happy Customers...
"Kevin was very professional, explained the issues clearly and the options. Tested and retested until all the settings were correct. Recommend"
"GAVIN WAS EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL AND PROFICIENT. WALKED ME THRU THE PROBLEMS AND THEN THEM. HIGHLY RECOMMEND."
"Our lawn will be lush and green now without wasting water. Thibaut knows his stuff, and gives great service."
"Justin the young man who came to fix our problem was solution based, efficient and charming we would get help from Perth Reticulation again"
"Very happy with the work Perth Reticulation did recently for my mum. I would 100% recommend them. Thank you Michelle"
Local reticulation questions
Yes, but get the City's approval first. Madeley is in the City of Wanneroo. Irrigation pipes and connections shall be laid beneath the nature strip between 150mm and 300mm deep. Watering days are a separate matter — those come from Water Corporation, not the council.
Generally yes — Madeley sits over accessible groundwater, which is why garden bores are common here. What varies is depth, yield and how much iron comes up with the water — all worth checking on your block before committing. We install, service and repair bores and pumps.
Madeley sits on Spearwood sands. Water moves through it fast, and the sand can turn water-repellent once it dries out. The most common thing we get booked for in Madeley is controller work, so that's where the technician starts. We aim for around 10mm on each of your two watering days, and decide on site whether that wants one run or two cycles inside the same window.
Madeley is about 33 km from our Jandakot depot and sits on a run our vehicles work weekly, so most repairs here are booked within days, not weeks. Repairs aren't quoted — you book a repair and the technician diagnoses and fixes on site, most faults in the same visit, with the parts already on the van.
A controller repair isn't quoted: book the visit and it's diagnosed and fixed on site. An upgrade, say to Wi-Fi, can be quoted without a visit: tell us if your controller is hardwired or plugs into a power point (a photo helps). If it needs an electrician, we arrange one. Controller work is one of the jobs we do most in Madeley.