Repairs set to Santa Monica's two-day watering schedule, with a flat price agreed before we dig.
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Santa Monica lets you water two days a week, and only before 9 in the morning or after 5 in the evening. That turns a sprinkler problem into a timing problem too. A head that sprays the sidewalk wastes one of your two days, and a valve that won't close keeps running on days you aren't allowed to water at all.
We repair the system and then set the controller to your address, so it runs on the right days and the right hours without you thinking about it.
Odd street numbers water on Monday and Wednesday. Even numbers get Tuesday and Thursday. Nothing runs between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any day.
There's a limit per station as well. Spray heads and bubblers get 10 minutes a watering day. Rotors and multi-stream heads get two cycles of up to 15 minutes, which is why we split them into two starts with a break between, so the water soaks in instead of running off. Runoff onto the street, the driveway or the gutter isn't allowed either, and that's usually what a neighbor notices first.
Hand watering with a shut-off nozzle is fine any day, outside the same 9 to 5 window. The full text is on the city's watering restrictions page.
Usually it's a head knocked crooked by a mower or a car tire. Sand in a nozzle throws a brown stripe across the lawn. Cracked risers turn into small fountains the first morning the zone runs, and a valve with a worn diaphragm weeps all night down in its buried box.
Older systems add their own trouble. Plenty of houses in Ocean Park and Sunset Park still run on controllers and valves put in decades ago, with wiring nobody labeled. We trace the wires zone by zone before we change anything, so the new schedule actually reaches the right valve.
Near the ocean the lawn often stays damp until the marine layer burns off, and people cut the watering back because the grass looks wet. Then one zone goes brown by August. More often than not that's one head spraying the wrong way, not a lawn that needs more water. We run every zone and walk it with you before anyone adds minutes to the schedule.
Spray heads in planter beds and along hedges waste the most water, because half of it lands on leaves and paths. The city runs a Spray to Drip program for switching those beds to drip, and a Cash for Grass program for replacing lawn. Rebate amounts and the rules for applying are on the city's water rebates page. Check them before the work starts, since programs like this usually want the application in first.
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Typical range for Sprinkler & Irrigation Repair: $120–$450. Your exact flat quote depends on the job, and you approve it first.
Often it is. We run each zone and watch. A broken line shows as a wet patch that never dries, a cracked riser as a geyser, a valve that doesn't close as a zone that keeps trickling after the controller stops. If every zone is off and the meter still turns, the leak is on the main line, and that's a plumber.
Yes. Tell us your street number and we set the days, keep every start outside 9 to 5, and split rotor zones into two shorter cycles so the water soaks in.
Not usually. We need the side gate open or its code, access to the controller, and the water on. We'll text photos of what we found and call before anything beyond the repair we agreed on.
Yes, all of Santa Monica, and the neighborhoods around it in West LA.
Local rules checked against the city's own pages on 2026-09-25: santamonica.gov, smgov.net.
