Rainbirds New WiFi Link Controller

March 1, 2017 by Joe Leave a Comment

Rainbirds New WiFi Link Controller is Here!

The wait is finally over, Rainbird’s new Wi-Fi link controller has arrived for the 2017 season. After a couple of years of field testing and perfecting the technology, this is the most effective residential controller available to our industry with Wi-Fi capabilities.

Compatibility

Designed to be compatible with an existing Rainbird controller (models Esp4M, Esp4Mi, Esp4me, Esp4mei, the oldest of which dates back approx. 10-12 years) by easily installing LNK Wi-Fi module into the accessory port and upgrading the faceplate. Using a smartphone or tablet, you and our technicians will now have easier onsite and offsite access providing a more efficient management of your system. Rainbird’s new wifi link controller has built-in automatic weather adjustment capabilities and an easy to navigate mobile app feature. This upgrade is another commitment by Olde Towne Irrigation to provide you with both short and long term savings.

Contact Us Today

Please contact us today for any additional information and to receive our best available pricing. We will also be happy to provide an onsite quote for any non-Rainbird existing controllers. Contact Olde Towne Irrigation today to schedule an appointment.

Additional Rainbird Information

Below are links to this new technology for further information.

http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_LNK-WiFi_SellSheet_en.pdf

http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_ESP-Me_SellSheet.pdf

System Efficiency Matters

February 27, 2017 by Joe Leave a Comment

System efficiency matters. Many of the communities we service are experiencing water rates increases. Olde Towne Irrigation continues to be the leader in offering smart watering solutions to our clients.

Throughout the season we will be continually updated our blog with the latest technology available for water conservation. Our goal is to help conserve water the best we can while still assuring a healthy and lush landscape.

Pressure Regulated Sprinkler (PRS) Heads

The use of pressure regulated sprinkler (PRS) heads has become common practice for our company. These PRS heads have been proven to save up to one gallon of water per minute.

For a lawn sprinkler system that may consist of twenty heads watering between fifteen to thirty minutes per cycle, these sprinkler heads will deliver tremendous savings over the course of a year.

In Tune with Water Restrictions

PRS technology is also in compliance with the many water restriction laws that are beginning to get enacted across the country. Notably California’s AB1881 Law.

For more Information

Please refer to the links below for additional information.

For More Information: http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_PRS_LeaveBehind.pdf

http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_PRS_LeaveBehind.pdf

How Much Water Can You Save in a Minute?

For more information: http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_5000PRS-WaterSavingCard.pdf

For more information: http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_5000PRS-WaterSavingCard.pdf

http://rainbird.com/documents/turf/bro_5000PRS-WaterSavingCard.pdf

Happy New Year from Olde Towne Irrigation

January 1, 2017 by Joe Leave a Comment

Happy New Year from all of us at Olde Towne Irrigation

We are already looking forward to Spring and providing you with the very best lawn and garden irrigation service.

Olde Towne Irrigation is a family-owned business providing elite irrigation services and landscape lighting throughout the North Shore. We offer a wide range of services associated with any residential and commercial sprinkler systems and look forward to developing a long-term relationship with our clients. Our goal is to deliver nothing but the best to your lawn and garden.

Our Focus

The focus of our company is to provide an efficient, reliable and affordable irrigation system that will enhance the overall health and beauty of your landscape. It is important that our entire staff remain updated through various training courses and continued education in efficient water usage. We firmly believe in offering the most current technology providing smart irrigation solutions, reducing over-watering and unnecessary use of your sprinkler system. These systems are more environmentally friendly, and still provide a beautiful and lush landscape.

Our Commitment

We are committed to building on our reputation of being among the best irrigation and landscape lighting contractors in the area through trust and professionalism. From the initial consultation, through the completion of your project, Olde Towne Irrigation will ensure that complete satisfaction is met with quality and integrity. Please call us today so we can begin transforming your outdoor living experience.

We want to wish you a very Happy New Year! Here is to a great 2017

It is time to Winterize

October 27, 2016 by Joe Leave a Comment

That’s right, the cooler temperatures are here and it is time to winterize.

Don’t Wait

Give us a call today to schedule the winterizing of your irrigation system. We look forward to hearing from you.

Fall Winterizations

Fall winterizations involve draining out all of the water from your backflow and copper pipes associated with the irrigation system to prevent freeze damage over the winter. We ‘blow out’ all your zones to prevent your underground pipes and heads from being damaged during the winter months. A properly winterized irrigation system will help ensure that everything is in working order come spring time saving you unnecessary repair expenses.

Is Your Irrigation System Maximizing its Potential Efficiency?

May 13, 2016 by Joe Leave a Comment

When was the last time your current sprinkler system was adjusted or updated? You can save both water and money with an efficiently running irrigation system.

Olde Towne Irrigation

Beginning a couple of seasons ago, we made the use of pressure-regulated sprinkler heads standard practice within our company. Why is it important to use sprinkler heads with built-in pressure regulators?

First, it conserves water by controlling the amount of pressure each individual nozzle puts out, allowing the sprinkler head to operate within the optimum pressure range. The ideal pressure for your residential rotor is 45 PSI (pounds per square inch). A system that is being run on too much pressure is not running efficiently. The flow rate will be increased, which simply means that more water is being forced through the sprinkler head than what is required.

Secondly, the throwing radius of the head is not covering what it was designed to do. Higher than necessary pressure will cause the heads to mist and the desired droplet size of the water output is too small. The slightest amount of wind will displace those smaller droplets to their not intended target, causing some areas of the turf to be too wet and others too dry. Uniformed coverage and distribution are lost at this point. The common reaction of the average landscaper (the person who cuts your grass) or homeowner to correct this is to increase the run time (apply more water, money) to help the effected dry spots, forgetting about the areas that are already too wet.

Olde Towne Irrigation

Save yourself time and money, and hire a professional irrigation contractor to evaluate any type of irrigation system you may have.

Olde Towne Irrigation offers a free review of any residential irrigation system to ensure it’s efficiency is maximized and as much water and money is being saved as possible. Maximize efficiency, conserve water and save you money.

Free evaluations of any current sprinkler system to determine it is being operated with the highest efficiency

Olde Towne Irrigation: Outdoor Lighting Installation

May 18, 2014 by Joe Leave a Comment

Let Olde Towne Irrigation install outdoor lighting to create an outdoor living area you will love!

Outdoor Lighting by Olde Towne Irrigation

Creating functional outdoor living spaces is one of the fastest growing trends in the residential construction industry. Over the past several years, Olde Towne Irrigation has been working with customers to extend their living spaces to patios, barbeque and outdoor living spaces to enjoy outdoor living spaces into the evenings.

By offering landscape lighting fixtures, Olde Towne Irrigation can create the right lighting to design an elegant, fun, romantic or playful space to enjoy with family and friends.

Olde Town Irrigation provides tops notch consultaton, installation and maintainance for outdoor lighting jobs. Outdoor low-voltage lighting gives homeowners the ability to create their own resort in their backyards! We think it’s an excellent investment.

Creating an outdoor living area takes a great deal of planning and creativity. Landscape lighting is the single factor that can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, accenting your landscape investment. Home values increase from this added feature to your outdoor living area as well.

Outdoor Lighting Ideas

Transform the following areas:

Enhance a waterfall or water feature
Add some dimension to a deck or patio
Highlight a barbecue area
Create a dramatic backdrop to a pool area
Up-light some signature trees
Lighting driveways, walkways and garden areas
Softly light a secluded bench in a favorite garden spot in your yard

Safety Bonus

Outdoor lighting really deters unwanted visitors to your property. It provides safety and security and it’s truly a helpful benefit to an installation. Many of our customers tell us how nice it is to have a perimeter visual of their properties while walking a dog or entering their homes at night.

Call Olde Towne Irrigation for a FREE Consultation

Don’t let the setting sun mean the end of the day outdoors. Create your own sanctuary at home with wonderful outdoor lighting.

Have Joe help you design, quote, install, and diversify your home with landscape lighting – (978) 325-0600

Welcome to Olde Towne Irrigation

May 6, 2014 by Joe Leave a Comment

Welcome to Olde Towne Irrigation

This is the first of many posts about our irrigation and outdoor lighting business; Ould Towne Irrigation. We will be writing about our expert knowledge in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, NH Seacoast and Greater Newburyport Area.

Our business caters to outdoor irrigation and residential outdoor lighting. Give us a call to set up a FREE consultation. We install brand-new irrigation and lighting systems, as well as work with previously installed systems you would like to upgrade or re-establish.

Joe Chaisson welcomes you to Olde Towne Irrigation! A family-owned business serving North Shore Massachusetts, Seacoast NH and Greater Newburyport and Cape Ann.

Business Highlights

Olde Towne Irrigation (OTI) is a family-owned business providing elite irrigation services and landscape lighting throughout the North Shore, Greater Boston, Seacoast of NH and Cape Ann Areas. They offer a wide range of services associated with any residential and commercial sprinkler systems. Developing a long-term relationship with our clients allows for a unified goal of delivering nothing but the best to your lawn and garden.

The focus of the company is to provide an efficient, reliable and affordable irrigation system that will enhance the overall health and beauty of your landscape. It is important that their entire staff remain updated through various training courses and continued education in efficient water usage.

OTI believes in providing customers with a beautiful and lush landscape by:

Offering the most current technology
Providing smart, environmentally friendly, irrigation solutions
Reduction of over-watering
Elimination of unnecessary watering

From the initial consultation, through the completion of your project, Olde Towne Irrigation will ensure that complete satisfaction is met with quality and integrity.

Irrigation Services

Expert Design & Installations

Olde Towne Irrigation’s installation crew and design team provides the highest quality lawn sprinkler systems in the area. They meet clients’ needs in giving them an automatic irrigation system that will maintain a healthy and beautiful landscape. Once you have an initial consultation (free), they begin designing a system that best suits each individual property, to ensure complete and efficient coverage throughout.

Within this phase, they choose which sprinkler heads are appropriate for each area of the lawn and whether there are planting beds that are also going to need irrigation. It is important that your design consists of head-to-head coverage for a well uniformed distribution of water.

For planting beds, drip irrigation is the most reliable way to deliver water directly to the root systems of each individual plant or shrub, thus eliminating wasteful watering to where it may not be needed.

Upgrades & Additions to Existing Systems

Irrigation systems can always be re-designed for various reasons. Whether you are installing a new pool, building a deck, building an addition, or even re-routing your driveway, there is a high possibility that there will be pipes and sprinkler heads in your way. Olde Towne’s experienced staff is well qualified to advise you how to best proceed during any such construction, while always trying to keep the undisturbed areas of your lawn watered.
Any type of irrigation system can be modified or made more efficient. If you’re considering adding a planting bed or extending your lawn to where there may not be any irrigation, OTI’s professional staff will consult with you on how best to proceed.
Older and outdated systems can be upgraded using more current technology by either swapping out your old heads or updating your controller with one of today’s more efficient units that will conserve water usage. An updated controller along with new sprinkler heads will instantly modernize any irrigation system, making it more efficient and reliable, thus saving you money at an affordable cost for a better result.

Seasonal Services List for Irrigation Systems

1. Spring Schedule: Consist of a complete and thorough review of your entire irrigation system. They will inspect the system for any leaks as well as the adjustments of all heads to ensure well uniformed coverage throughout your lawn. OTI’s experienced technicians will also set an appropriate watering cycle to the controller, one that will be reliable to withstand the rising temperatures of the season to give you a lush green lawn throughout the summer. At the completion of our inspection, we will provide any suggestions that may be considered in the future to further enhance the irrigation system.

2. Mid-Summer Schedule: Checkups are essential in making sure that your irrigation system is operating at a high level of efficiency in the most critical time of the season. We will review the operation of each zone, inspecting that all heads are properly adjusted and that there are no leaks in any of the piping. Updating the controller settings for a proper watering schedule to carry you through the remainder of the summer is also included in this service.

3. Fall Winterizations Schedule: Involve draining out all of the water from your backflow and copper pipes associated with the irrigation system to prevent freeze damage over the winter. We ‘blow out’ all your zones to prevent your underground pipes and heads from being damaged during the winter months. A properly winterized irrigation system will help ensure that everything is in working order come spring time saving you un-necessary repair expenses.

Please call us today to inquire on our Three Service Package that includes a Spring Start-Up, a Mid-Summer Review, and a Fall Winterization. We also offer a Two Service Package that includes the spring and fall services.

Landscape Lighting

Low-voltage landscape lighting designs and installations are a unique and beautiful way to enhance any outdoor living space. When properly designed and installed, landscape lighting is a great way to showcase:

Walkways
Stone walls
Patios
Planting beds
Favorite trees and outdoor elements

Olde Towne takes great pride in offering this very elegant service that instantly extends your outdoor living space into the evening hours for you to enjoy.

“Just because the sun has gone down for the day, it should not mean that it is time to head indoors for the night.”

Lighting for Security

In addition to illuminating your already beautiful landscape, OTI”s lighting designs and installations will give you and your family a sense of security. By lighting your home or property, unwelcome guests will be discouraged from inviting themselves.

OTI offers high quality, durable lighting for:

Perimeters
Driveways
Entrances
Including down lighting options from tree-mounted fixtures.

All OTI installations are designed with New England weather conditions in mind.

Installation of LED Landscape Lighting

Your current landscape lighting can be upgraded to LED bulbs very easily in most, if not all circumstances. In doing so, you will not only reduce your energy costs, you will save on un-necessary service calls for a bulb replacement. These LED bulbs will last you approximately 40,000 hours of lamp life or ten plus years of production with no maintenance.

Free Consultations are Available

Reach out to Joe @ 978.325.0600 to schedule your appointment today!

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Testimonials by Loyal Customers 2014

Christine has been a happy customer of Olde Towne Irrigation for several years. “We highly recommend them for outdoor garden irrigation or lighting needs. We have a full-scale irrigation system on our property. We have a lot of gardens, grass and even planters that have drip-irrigation that Olde Towne Irrigation maintains…..

After a few years, we decided to go ahead and install some outdoor lighting. We started small, but now have a full system of lighting that has made a world of difference to our property. Not only does our landscape look green and healthy, but the lighting at night really allows us to enjoy it during the evenings. My favorite tree, a gigantic Gingko we planted for our youngest daughter, is up-lighted. I can’t tell you how special it is to highlight it with outdoor lighting! We LOVE it.”

- Christine Cohen of MomsLifesavers.com