It's Not Unfixable. It's Undiagnosed.
Minnesota's troubleshooting specialists for irrigation systems — including the well and lake-fed setups most companies won't touch.
When a zone won’t fire, pressure drops for no reason, or your heads spit sand across the driveway, you don’t need a sales pitch for a new system. You need someone to figure out what’s actually wrong. That’s the whole job here. We trace the problem to its source — pump, wiring, valve, intake, controller, or something nobody’s thought to check yet — and we tell you exactly what it takes to fix it. No guessing. No parts-cannon. No “you’ll probably need a full replacement.”
35+ Years of quality irrigation service, design & builds
Most Companies Install. We Diagnose.
Installation is straightforward work: new pipe, new heads, clean slate. Troubleshooting an existing system is a different discipline entirely — especially one that’s been repaired three times by three different crews.
That’s the work we’ve built our reputation on. Homeowners call us after the other guy shrugged. Contractors call us when a system doesn’t behave the way the manual says it should. If your problem has been passed around, it’s probably ours.
sound familiar?
- One zone won’t turn on. Usually a solenoid, a broken wire, or a valve that’s failed open — but it can be a controller output. We test, we don’t swap.
- Pressure has quietly gotten worse. A slow decline almost always means a clogged intake, a failing pump, or a leak underground that hasn’t surfaced yet.
- Heads are spitting sand or grit. Classic well and lake symptom. Your filtration isn’t doing its job, and your nozzles are paying for it.
- Rust or iron staining on the siding and walks. Fixable. It’s a water treatment problem, not a plumbing problem, and there’s more than one way to solve it.
- The pump short-cycles or won’t prime. Pressure tank, foot valve, or a suction-side leak. Three very different repairs, one very common misdiagnosis.
- The system runs — but you don’t know why or when. Old controller, mystery wiring, no zone map. We’ll document it and hand you the map.
- Something got hit by the aerator, the plow, or the fence guy. We’ll find the break without excavating your whole yard.
Well and Lake-Fed Systems Are Their Own Animal.
City water is predictable: consistent pressure, filtered, always there. A well or lake-fed system is a small waterworks that you happen to own — and it fails in ways municipal systems never do.
We know these systems because we work on them constantly:
- Intake screens and foot valves fouled by algae, silt, weeds, or zebra mussels
- Fluctuating lake levels that change your suction lift mid-season
- Sediment and iron that eats nozzles, clogs filters, and stains everything it touches
- Jet and submersible pump diagnostics — including whether the pump is actually the problem, which is often isn’t
- Pressure tanks, check valves, and priming issues that mimic a dozen other failures
- Filtration and treatment sized for what’s actually in your water, not a generic spec
If a company has told you your lake system is “too complicated” or quoted you a full replacement without diagnosing anything — get a second opinion.
How a Diagnostic Visit Works
1. We listen.
What changed, when it started, what’s already been tried. Your history saves us hours.
2. We test the system, not our assumptions.
Zone by zone. Electrical, hydraulic, mechanical. We isolate the failure instead of guessing at it.
3. We show you what we found.
In plain language, with the actual cause — not a symptom, and not a shrug.
4. You get a clear path forward.
Repair options, cost, and what happens if you wait. Most fixes happen same visit.
We don’t throw a bunch of parts at a problem, we find what’s causing it and provide a solution to fix it for good.