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

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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

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