Irrigation

A properly designed irrigation system makes it easier to provide your lawn and landscape with consistent water without relying on hoses, portable sprinklers, or manual watering. More importantly, the system should account for the different watering needs found throughout your property rather than treating every part of the landscape the same.

Matt's Landscaping & Stonescaping designs and installs lawn sprinkler and irrigation systems throughout Queensbury, Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs, Lake George, Bolton Landing, and surrounding areas of Upstate New York. With more than 25 years of experience installing sprinkler systems, we plan each system around the conditions of the individual property, including lawn areas, planting beds, sunlight, shade, water pressure, and available water supply.

Irrigation Designed Around Your Landscape

An effective irrigation system begins with understanding the property. A sunny lawn can have very different watering requirements from a shaded section of grass, while shrubs, flowers, gardens, and other planted areas may need a different approach altogether.

Before installation, we evaluate the areas that need irrigation and determine how water should be distributed throughout the property. The goal is to provide appropriate coverage while avoiding obvious problems such as dry areas, unnecessary overlap, or water being directed onto driveways and other hardscape surfaces.

The layout also needs to work with the existing landscape. Homes with large lawns may require multiple irrigation zones, while properties with a combination of turf, planting beds, trees, patios, and walkways need a system designed around those individual features.

Planning Your Lawn Sprinkler System

Water pressure and available supply are important considerations when designing an irrigation system. Matt's Landscaping & Stonescaping checks the property's water pressure and determines how the sprinkler system will connect with the home's existing water service.

We also plan the location of the system controller and explain how to operate it once installation is complete. A properly configured controller allows different areas of the landscape to be watered according to a schedule rather than requiring homeowners to manually turn sprinklers on and off.

Breaking the property into appropriate zones can provide greater control over watering. Areas that receive full sun, for example, may dry differently from shaded areas, while established landscaping may have different needs from a newly seeded lawn.

Supporting New Lawns & Landscaping

Irrigation can be particularly useful when establishing a new lawn or landscape. Newly hydro-seeded lawns require consistent moisture during germination, and newly installed plants also need dependable watering while their root systems become established.

Matt's Landscaping & Stonescaping provides landscape design, hydro-seeding, and irrigation services, allowing these components to be planned together when completing a larger project. Rather than installing a new lawn and then determining how it will be watered afterward, irrigation can be considered as part of the landscape plan from the beginning.

The same approach can be taken with planting beds. Understanding where shrubs, trees, flowers, and lawn areas will be located helps us develop an irrigation layout around the finished landscape.

Irrigation for Upstate New York Properties

Upstate New York landscapes experience changing conditions throughout the growing season. Spring rainfall may provide substantial natural moisture, while hotter and drier summer periods can increase the need for supplemental watering.

Sun exposure can also vary considerably across a single property, particularly on wooded or partially shaded lots around Queensbury, Lake George, and surrounding communities. Designing irrigation around these differences can provide more appropriate coverage than simply watering every area for the same amount of time.

Seasonal conditions also mean irrigation systems need to be prepared for winter. Water remaining in irrigation lines can freeze as temperatures fall, potentially damaging components of the system. Matt's Landscaping & Stonescaping provides a separate winter irrigation shut-down service to help prepare systems for freezing conditions each year.

What to Expect During Installation

When you're considering a new sprinkler system, we'll meet with you at your property to discuss the landscape and how the system needs to function. We'll evaluate the areas requiring irrigation, consider sun and shade conditions, check water pressure, and discuss the connection to your existing water service.

We'll also determine an appropriate location for the controller and explain how the system will operate. Once installation is complete, we'll show you how to use the controls so you can manage watering schedules as conditions change.

Our installation approach is designed to minimize unnecessary disturbance to the existing lawn and landscape. We understand that homeowners are investing in irrigation to improve their property, so care during installation and cleanup is an important part of the process.

Make Landscape Watering Easier

Whether you're installing a new lawn, completing a larger landscape renovation, or simply looking for a more convenient way to water an existing property, a professionally designed irrigation system can make ongoing landscape care much easier.

Matt's Landscaping & Stonescaping can design a sprinkler system around your lawn, planting areas, property conditions, and water supply rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all layout.