"Chris was very efficient, quickly located the problem and we are very happy with the service he provided."
Reticulation Whitby
Whitby is on our south-eastern run, so getting a technician out here is routine — and the systems in this area throw up the same faults we work on daily. For scale: 4,844 jobs across Perth in 2025, around 404 a month.
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Call (08) 6263 4644 to book a repair, or book a site assessment for a new system.
3 retic jobs here so far
One call covers everything watering-related: mains reticulation, controllers, solenoids, wiring faults.
Our completed Whitby jobs so far have covered controller work, new system installs and sprinkler & pop-up repairs — and every one adds to the local system knowledge our technicians bring to the next booking.
Verge planting and reticulation rules sit with the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, while watering days come from the Water Corporation sprinkler roster, not the council — worth checking both before any verge retic work. We're about 24 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 latest retic jobs here
Latest job here: May 2026. Since May 2026:
1 other homeowner and business job.
Updated monthly from our job records. We publish the month and the fault type only, never customer details.
Foothills soil: mixed ground needs zoned irrigation
Soil — foothills gravels and clay-loams. The Ridge Hill shelf mixes gravel, sand and clay within single blocks; expect uneven drainage and tune each retic zone to its own soil rather than one blanket schedule.
Groundwater & bores. The aquifer is present but less uniformly accessible under this ground — get a local assessment before committing to a bore. Either way, a well-tuned system keeps watering inside the 2-day roster comfortably.
Rainfall — about 750mm a year. Local average is ~750mm a year, about 77% of it in the May-September wet season (Medina Research Centre) — 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 009194 Medina Research Centre climate averages · Water Corporation watering roster (verified Jul 2026)
From our Whitby job book
Lifting a new Whitby lawn to connect the back yard
A Whitby installation ran into a sequencing problem that costs money on a lot of new builds: the front yard landscaping had already been installed without a connection provided for the back yard reticulation. Getting water to the rear meant lifting the newly laid lawn, connecting to the mainline, and relaying the turf — work that would have been unnecessary had a connection point been left during the front yard works.
An additional eight metres of trenching and twenty metres of five-core wire were needed. Site fencing also had to be removed for access, and three cubic metres of soil brought in.
The lesson generalises to any staged landscaping project: leave a capped connection and a spare wire run wherever a later stage will need one, before the surface goes down.
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 Whitby 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 Whitby 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...
"Dylan was great and highly knowledgeable. Had identified the problem in a couple of minutes and my system was up and running within 30mins"
"I was kept informed of when and who was coming to do my Retic for me and when Justin arrived, he was friendly and helpful and kept me in the loop about what he was doing and how long it would take. He liaised with me during the process and when he left he tidied up where he had been working. I was super impressed."
"Fantastic customer service from both the technicians and office team. Received great advice on how to improve our reticulation system."
"Yes two men that came to my house.got on two the job I told them wot it’s doing in 10 minutes he had part in his van 15 minutes he had it going thank you it was easy"
"Got a new master valve replaced today. shout out to George. very knowledgeable and efficient. nice bloke as well."
Local reticulation questions
Yes, but the trenching needs written approval. Whitby is in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. Drip lines, sprinklers and reticulation may be installed on a verge providing any sprinklers or pipes installed comply with the Policy conditions.
It depends on your exact spot — groundwater access around Whitby varies, sometimes street to street. We can assess your block's suitability, and if a bore doesn't stack up, a well-zoned scheme-water system with matched nozzles is the next best water saver.
Whitby sits on foothills gravels and clay-loams. Drainage there can change within a single block, so stations often need different run times from each other. The most common thing we get booked for in Whitby is controller work, so that's where the technician starts. Run times get set to put down roughly 10mm per rostered day, delivered in one or two cycles inside the same watering window, depending on how fast it soaks.
Water Corporation sets Whitby'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 Medina station averages about 78 mm of rain in September and 39 mm in October, close to 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
Cardup · Mundijong · Mardella · Byford · Karrakup · Oldbury · Jarrahdale and the wider Perth metro, from our Jandakot base. Read our pricing guide or call to get started.