Fees and Quotes

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Call out / per visit travel and organisation fee $250

+ hourly rate $250

+ materials (prices based on Reece.com.au retail prices)

I carry the range of gear with me to fix 99% of household irrigation systems.  If you book me in, for anything other than a quote, expect me to turn up and immediately get stuck into sorting out your irrigation issues.  

In general it is not possible to quote on repairs.   Generally the majority of the work in doing repairs  is in identifying the location and nature of the problems.  Most often fixing one issue will lead to the appearance or identification of other issues especially on older systems.  If you can clearly explain and photograph a discreet issue that you need fixed I may be able to give a cost estimate.  Of course this estimate would only cover the issue you identify.

I typically quote between $3000 and $1400 for new household irrigation systems.  Key factors that will increase cost are barriers to laying pipes from water source (for example a driveway), number of lawn areas, size of lawn be irrigated and low water pressure.  Small gardens, with no obstacles and no lawns are the cheapest to irrigate.  

My preference for smaller jobs is  to not give quotes and work on an hourly basis as this is the most efficient and cheapest option.  You can use the above cost range to try to estimate what you might be looking at considering the range of gardens you see around Canberra from town houses to highly landscaped larger blocks. Getting a fixed price quote requires more  work and shifts risk from the customer to me.  I factor this into my quotes so you can expect to pay more.  For larger jobs this may be worthwhile.

For a free quote send photos of the areas you want irrigated with dimensions of the area and location of a tap or other water source.   Please note and photograph  any paths, walls or other barriers that will complicate installing piping between tap and areas to be irrigated.   Paving can be reasonably easily lifted while concrete paths and driveways are more difficult. 

Please also record the flow rate of the tap you wish to use to supply water to the irrigation system.  To do this time how long it takes to fill up a bucket of known volume when the tap is fully on.

If you will be getting a mains powered controller installed please photograph and detail location of powerpoint to be used and route that wire can run from there to water source.   If a powerpoint needs to be installed we can connect you with an electrician.  To weigh up pros and cons of different ways of achieving automatic watering see relevant section on FAQs page.

If a site inspection is necessary to give a quote then costs for this are as listed under 'Fees' above.  Charging for site inspections for quotes is done to reflect the time and expense required to provide this service and also to encourage use of electronic communication and reduced environmental footprint associated with driving.