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Reticulation Stirling
PRE crews are in Stirling constantly — 87 of our 106 jobs here run under commercial facilities and housing maintenance programs, alongside repairs and installs for local homeowners. 11 of them in 2025.
✓ 24,000+ jobs completed across Perth · 89+ maintenance visits completed in Stirling · ★ 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
Repairs aren't quoted — you book a repair and our technician diagnoses and fixes on site, with the parts already on the van. New systems are quoted after a paid site assessment, credited in full to your install if you accept the quote within 30 days.
Most of our Stirling volume runs through commercial facilities and housing maintenance programs — 87+ visits covering cyclical servicing, fault repairs and system upgrades — with residential work alongside: controller work, servicing & tune-ups and sprinkler & pop-up repairs are the common jobs here.
Verge planting and reticulation rules sit with the City of Stirling, while watering days come from the Water Corporation sprinkler roster, not the council — worth checking both before any verge retic work. We're about 25 km from our Jandakot base, well inside the daily service runs.
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 236 Google reviews.
Our retic work here, year by year
- Homeowners & businesses
- Housing & facility maintenance programs
Show the numbers
| Year | Homeowners & businesses | Maintenance programs | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2 | 22 | 24 |
| 2023 | 2 | 23 | 25 |
| 2024 | 4 | 22 | 26 |
| 2025 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
Our latest retic jobs here
Latest job here: September 2026. Since May 2026:
12 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. Yellow Spearwood sand over limestone drains freely, so splitting your watering-day run into two shorter cycles, with a wetting agent, beats one long soak. The shallow limestone also makes trenching for repairs harder than it looks.
Groundwater & bores. Shallow sandy geology means bores in this area usually deliver reliable garden water; pairing one with well-tuned reticulation keeps large lawns affordable. The 2-day roster and winter ban apply to bore watering too.
Rainfall — about 718mm a year. Averages about 718mm a year at the Perth Metro gauge with roughly 79% falling May-September — so the controller should step down through autumn and observe the 1 June - 31 August sprinkler switch-off.
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 Stirling job book
Three leaks, and the ones behind them, in Stirling
A Stirling system had three significant leaks showing at once. Our technician repaired the first, capped off the second because the line it fed was no longer in use, and excavating the third exposed an old gate valve and what appeared to be a former master valve (the main valve that shuts the whole system off) — remnants of an earlier version of the system still connected to the live one.
A new line was installed to bypass that section. What this job illustrates is a pattern worth warning about: on an old system, repairing one leak raises the pressure the rest of the pipework has to hold, and the next weakest point then fails.
Chasing leaks one at a time on aged poly can become a cycle. At some point replacing a run costs less than repairing it repeatedly, and that judgement is worth making deliberately.
What we actually find in Stirling
We've completed 106 jobs in Stirling. For this pattern check we read the 6 with the fullest, most recent technician notes — a capped sample, deliberately small and not random. 3 of them involved mainline leaks and split poly, against 33% across the 1,781 Perth jobs sampled the same way. It tells our technician what to check first. It is not Stirling's fault rate, and we don't publish it as one.
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 Stirling 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 Stirling 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...
"Jakob was incredibly knowledgeable, demonstrated common sense and a friendly style. He worked quickly and efficiently, even ducking off to grab other equipment. Thank you."
"Dylan was very thorough and helpful with service of the reticulation on my premise. Very knowleadgeable. Will definitively recommend."
"Punctual, polite and professional. Dylan carried out the work quickly and efficiently as requested . Great value service."
"Full credit to George he showed up on time and got straight to work, no mucking around. George took the time to show me where i went wrong. Work area was left in a respectable manner."
"Very happy with the work Perth Reticulation did recently for my mum. I would 100% recommend them. Thank you Michelle"
Local reticulation questions
Yes, no prior approval needed. Stirling is in the City of Stirling. Ideally your waterwise verge won't need a permanent irrigation system once established. If you do require irrigation, sub-surface drip irrigation is recommended. Note that your watering days don't come from the council; that roster is set state-wide.
Generally yes — Stirling sits over accessible groundwater, which is why garden bores are common here. Depth, yield and iron content still vary block to block, so it's worth assessing rather than assuming. We install, service and repair bores and pumps.
Stirling 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 Stirling is controller work, so that's where the technician starts. The schedule is built around about 10mm on each rostered day — split into two cycles inside the same watering window when the ground won't take it in one.
Stirling is about 25 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 Stirling.
Nearby suburbs we service
Gwelup · Innaloo · Karrinyup · Doubleview · Balcatta · Woodlands · Osborne Park and the wider Perth metro, from our Jandakot base. Read our pricing guide or call to get started.