Reticulation Melville

A Melville lawn had developed a big wet patch, and the owner assumed a burst pipe. What we found was a master valve and a station solenoid that had both failed and were leaking together. We replaced both valves, repaired and repositioned the broken risers and pop-ups, and ran a full system check.

Then the job got better. The owner asked for advice on coverage while we were there, so we actioned it on the spot: raised nozzles that were sitting too low, swapped nozzle types where the throw didn't suit the area, moved a riser that was doing nobody any good, and — because the pressure allowed it — joined the station 2 and 3 garden beds so the system waters more evenly. One booking, one visit, and the garden came out of it with better coverage than before the fault.

Station 3 dead on a bore-fed system, five stations, and only a rough idea of where the valve might be. Tracking a buried solenoid is half the job in established suburbs like Melville — this one turned out to be sitting under tree roots, which is why it took proper locating gear and some patience rather than guesswork and a shovel. We tracked it, worked it free, replaced the valve, then tested all five stations from the front lawns to the very back of the block and checked the controller settings before leaving.

One Melville property is owned by someone who doesn't live in Perth at all — the booking simply said fix the leak beside the driveway and check everything else while you're there. We repaired the leaking pipe on station 1, replaced one sprinkler and raised another that had sunk near the water meter, swapped a tired micro spray in the back garden bed, programmed the controller to its Thursday-and-Sunday roster in line with Water Corporation rules, and fitted a fresh backup battery so the clock and date survive a power cut. Job done, everything on record, all handled without the owner setting foot in Perth.

A Melville property had a leak alongside the driveway, which our technician traced to station 1 and repaired. Pipe running beside a driveway is under more load than pipe in open garden — vehicles compact the ground either side of the slab, and the edge is where wheels track when someone parks slightly wide. The rest of the visit was condition work: a sprinkler replaced on station 2, one in the garden near the water meter raised to clear the surrounding planting, and a micro spray replaced on station 3 in the back bed. The controller's 9V clock-backup battery was replaced and the schedule set to the property's rostered watering days. Raising a head rather than replacing it is often the right call — a sprinkler smothered by growth is not faulty, it is buried.

The rest of our Melville work looks like this. A pop-up gushing water beside a driveway gets replaced — and the system check afterwards turns up two more leaks, one of which is just a loose cap that gets washed, tightened and repositioned rather than sold to you as a new part. A dead verge station gets its failed solenoid valve replaced and matched properly to the existing manifold, and the loose controller wiring hanging next to it — a short waiting to happen — gets tidied in the same visit. A coverage complaint on a back lawn turns out to be a planter-box footing no sprinkler could ever clear, so instead of fighting what couldn't move, we changed the nozzles and fixed the throw. Twenty-three local jobs completed in Melville, and counting.