Reticulation Scarborough
Reticulation Scarborough — 400+ maintenance visits under commercial facilities and housing maintenance programs, plus the homes and shops in between. We completed 49 jobs in Scarborough in 2025.
✓ 24,000+ jobs completed across Perth · 418+ maintenance visits completed in Scarborough · ★ 4.7 from 230 Google reviews
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Your local Scarborough reticulation team
Scarborough throws a bit of everything at a retic crew: coastal sand that drinks water, stuck master valves that keep water meters creeping, and commercial sites where the controller lives behind a shop counter. We're about 23 kilometres away in Jandakot and this suburb sits on the regular runs — same-week bookings are the norm. Repairs are booked in, not guessed at over the phone. Diagnosis happens on site, with the meter, the valves and the controller in front of us.
Verge planting and reticulation rules sit with the City of Stirling, while watering days come from the state-wide roster, not the council — worth checking both before any verge retic work. 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. This suburb sits on Perth's sandy coastal plain over the superficial aquifer, where garden bores are common and generally productive. Bore water isn't metered like scheme supply, so a serviced bore slashes the cost of keeping gardens green — the standard 2-day roster and June-August sprinkler switch-off still apply. Averages about 727mm a year at the Swanbourne gauge with roughly 78% falling May-September — so the controller should step down through autumn and observe the 1 June - 31 August sprinkler switch-off. Scarborough is roughly 23 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 Scarborough & nearby
We also look after Wembley Downs, Doubleview, Innaloo, Woodlands, Churchlands, City Beach, Karrinyup and the wider Perth metro. Read our pricing guide or call to get started.
Nearby: Wembley Downs · Doubleview · Innaloo · Woodlands · Churchlands · City Beach · Karrinyup
What does Scarborough’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. Sandy soils over shallow groundwater make this classic garden-bore territory; running retic from a bore takes garden watering off the scheme-water bill. Bores follow the same 2-day roster and winter switch-off as scheme users.
Rainfall — about 727mm a year. Around 727mm falls annually (Swanbourne data), close to 78% of it May-September; gardens rely almost entirely on reticulation from November to March, when scheduling accuracy matters most.
Sources: DPIRD-064 Soil Landscape Systems (SLIP) · DWER Perth Groundwater Map / Water Corp groundwater areas (band-level) · BOM station 009215 Swanbourne climate averages · Water Corporation watering roster (verified Jul 2026)
Customer stories from Scarborough
The meter that wouldn't sit still
The plumber had already isolated the retic main on this Scarborough property: with the controller off, water was still passing through a main solenoid and bleeding out of a sprinkler head. Our job was to find out why.
On site, the first find was a red herring dressed as a fault — the flow control on the master valve had been wound right down, choking the whole system, so we opened it up just to get everything operating properly for testing. Then the real culprits: station 1 sticking open, and the water meter still slowly turning with everything switched off. We swapped out the master valve and re-ran the full system check — every solenoid behaving, station 1 holding closed, meter still. A creeping meter is one of the most expensive faults a Perth garden can have, and it's nearly always a valve.
The controller behind the pharmacy counter
a Scarborough retail complex
Commercial retic has its own puzzle: access. At a Scarborough retail complex the ageing six-station controller lived inside the pharmacy, so the first visit ended at a locked door. We came back the next morning, were walked through to the controller, and swapped it for a new Hunter six-station unit. Every station tested and running, watering set to the two-day roster — Wednesday and Saturday, 4am starts, 15 minutes a station, all finished before a single customer is on site. That's the shape of most commercial work: the irrigation is the easy half, and turning up when the site can actually let you in is the rest.
A Scarborough service call, and the coverage question behind it
A Scarborough property in late 2024 was booked as a general service — find the faults, get the system fully operational. Our technician located the station 4 solenoid, replaced the coil and ran a full system check, then replaced three pop-up nozzles. Replacing a coil rather than the whole solenoid is worth noting: where the valve body and diaphragm are sound, the coil is the part that usually fails, and swapping only the coil is a much smaller job than digging out and re-plumbing a valve. The owners had also raised coverage in the back garden, which they felt was not being watered adequately. That is a different question from a fault — a system can be in perfect working order and still not reach everything, usually because the head type no longer suits the area. Gear drives had previously been installed there, and reverting to them was flagged as the likely answer.
And week in, week out
The steady half of our Scarborough workload is program maintenance — 400+ maintenance visits under commercial facilities and housing maintenance programs — and the call-outs in between look familiar. One system wouldn't turn off at all and had been isolated at the mains: traced to a master valve and a station solenoid both stuck open, both replaced, controller reset, running again the same visit. Coastal sand makes Scarborough systems work hard; the ones that behave are the ones that get tested properly every time someone's on site.
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Our work in Scarborough
Reticulation Repairs in Scarborough
Broken pop-ups, a leaking solenoid, dry patches or a controller that’s lost the plot? Our fully-equipped technicians diagnose and fix most Scarboroughfaults on the spot. Repairs aren’t quoted – call us and we’ll book the visit.
New Systems in Scarborough
Putting in a new lawn or upgrading a tired system? We design and install fully automated, waterwise reticulation for Scarboroughhomes. Book a paid site assessment — credited in full to your install if you accept the quote within 30 days.
What Scarborough customers say
“This is our second time using Perth Retic and both times they were great. Prompt, professional. Wayne was lovely and really helpful. Highly recommend”