"It's been awhile since we had good trades people help us. Today Tom and Izzy where amazing. They located the issue very quickly and went into action!. I felt enormously happy to have had such good workmanship from the guys. They where also very friendly, tidy and professional. If you are looking for retic help then Perth Reticulation Experts are the place to be.!"
Reticulation Tapping
We've been booked 9 times in Tapping and service the surrounding northern suburbs area daily — so getting a technician to your place is easy. 1 of those was in 2025.
✓ 24,000+ jobs completed across Perth · 9 jobs completed in Tapping and counting · ★ 4.7 from 236 Google reviews
Call (08) 6263 4644 to book a repair, or book a site assessment for a new system.
9 retic jobs here so far
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 Tapping jobs we've done to date centre on controller work, servicing & tune-ups and wiring & fault-tracing. Wherever your fault sits, the diagnosis process is the same disciplined one we run on every Perth job.
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. We're about 42 km from our Jandakot base, well inside the daily service runs.
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. 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.
Rainfall — about 672mm a year. Local average is ~672mm a year, about 77% of it in the May-September wet season (Pearce Raaf) — reprogram seasonally and switch sprinklers off for the mandatory June-August ban.
Sources: DPIRD-064 Soil Landscape Systems (SLIP) · DWER Perth Groundwater Map / Water Corp groundwater areas (band-level) · BOM station 009053 Pearce Raaf climate averages · Water Corporation watering roster (verified Jul 2026)
From our Tapping job book
A Tapping repair, then a return to finish it
A Tapping property had its controller located and the system tested through, with a broken sprinkler repaired, blocked micro sprays cleared and a failed solenoid coil (the electrical part of that valve) replaced on the garden bed station. The controller was programmed and set to run automatically.
A return visit was then booked to set up a new controller and check the system again. Booking a second visit rather than compressing everything into one is sometimes the right call — a new controller needs programming and every station tested through it afterwards, and doing that properly takes time that is not available at the end of a repair visit.
A controller fitted in the last twenty minutes of a job is a controller nobody has watched run a full cycle.
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 Tapping 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 Tapping 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...
"Clinton and the team at Perth Reticulation Experts are very professional and fixed my reticulation with no problems. They explained what they were doing along the way and what the original issue was. As a young woman in her first home I felt I was listened to, the staff are super friendly and happy to go above and beyond to complete 5e job. Would highly recommend."
"Very professional and knowledgeable. Thank you!"
"PRE did a great job and were very responsive to my requirements. I had delays with other services and they were very accommodating and got me set up with part of the job so that I could get some lawn down for my young family to run around on. The end result has been great and I would recommend them to anyone who needs a good quality reticulation job done with friendly employees who know their stuff! Thanks a million guys!"
"Very good assistance by George on time efficient genial and respectful doesn’t get any better! Highly recommended"
"Got a new master valve replaced today. shout out to George. very knowledgeable and efficient. nice bloke as well."
Local reticulation questions
Yes, but get the City's approval first. Tapping is in the City of Wanneroo. Irrigation pipes and connections shall be laid beneath the nature strip between 150mm and 300mm deep.
Generally yes — Tapping sits over accessible groundwater, which is why garden bores are common here. That said, two neighbouring blocks can differ on yield and iron content, so it's an assessment rather than a given. Bores, pumps and bore-fed retic are all work we do.
Tapping 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 Tapping 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.
Water Corporation sets Tapping's sprinkler days: check yours with your street number and postcode. In Perth and Mandurah that's two days a week, once before 9am or after 6pm, bores included; elsewhere the roster can differ. The winter switch-off runs from 1 June to 31 August. After it, the Bureau of Meteorology's RAAF Pearce station averages about 67 mm of rain in September and 37 mm in October, a little drier than central Perth's 80 mm.
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.
Nearby suburbs we service
Ashby · Carramar · Sinagra · Banksia Grove · Joondalup · Wanneroo · Edgewater and the wider Perth metro, from our Jandakot base. Read our pricing guide or call to get started.