A rebuild without an as-built is how the next owner waters the street. Map in the door.
Irrigation Controller Repair in Memorial is a local job: the grass, the clay, and the houses on those streets decide the repair. Memorial specimen lawns are not a six-head builder grid. Live oaks, limestone, irrigation that was piled against the slab. We match heads, keep water off the stone, and move throw off the beam. Nobody is tearing out that lawn for a cheap spray.
Energy Corridor lots are Memorial’s younger cousin — same clay, younger controllers. We do both in a west-Houston day. Nearby landmarks we actually use to find the lot: Memorial Park, Memorial City, Energy Corridor, Buffalo Bayou west.
Irrigation Controller Repair in Memorial
The controller is the clock. Houston storms fry boards. HOAs set run times that flood clay. A Rain Bird or Hunter panel that forgot the program is a repair, not a new landscape. We diagnose the panel, the transformer, and the common wire before we sell a replacement.
A sprinkler timer that looks dead is often a blown fuse, a loose common, or a transformer that cooked on a west-facing garage wall. We meter first. If the board is gone, we replace it with a panel that holds a program through a blink — battery backup or a Wi-Fi model if you want phone control.
Programming matters as much as hardware. St. Augustine in Katy clay does not want six-minute daily sprays. We set cycle-and-soak so runoff does not sheet down the driveway, and we point you at Harris County watering rules when they apply.
Smart controllers help when the rain sensor is honest and the zones are matched. They do not fix a broken head. We say that on the visit.
Grass, soil, and housing on this side of town
Grass. St. Augustine, zoysia, estate lawns under live oaks St. Augustine wants a deep soak. Bermuda forgives a miss for a day. Mixing them on one valve is how one strip stays swampy and the other crunches.
Soil. Houston clay, estate irrigation Houston-area clay heaves shallow PVC and keeps valve boxes wet. We pack repairs so the next shrink-swell cycle does not walk the coupling off.
Housing. estate lots, villages, Energy Corridor 70s–90s Typical irrigation failures here: specimen lawns, matched heads, irrigation against the slab, limestone walks getting overspray
A rebuild without an as-built is how the next owner waters the street. Map in the door.
What the visit looks like
- Meter Incoming power, 24-volt output, common continuity.
- Read the program Start times, run times, odd/even, seasonal adjust.
- Repair or replace Board, transformer, or a new controller of the same class.
- Program for Houston Night watering, cycle-and-soak, rain sensor enabled.
Neighborhoods we treat as the same dispatch cluster in Memorial: Memorial Villages, Energy Corridor, Tanglewood edge, Memorial Bend, Nottingham. Zips: 77024, 77079, 77077. County: Harris County.
Related work, not a clone of this page
If a head is sheared, start with sprinkler head repair. If a zone is dead, read sprinkler zone repair. A geyser or a main break is emergency sprinkler repair.
This article is paired with Irrigation Controller Repair and the city hub lawn sprinkler repair in Memorial. Combined landing: Irrigation Controller Repair in Memorial.
Nearby cities with different watering stories
- Houston — Houston Black clay and Beaumont clay that shrinks in drought and swells after Gulf storms
- League City — coastal corrosion on controllers, high water table leaks, South Shore Harbour overspray on decks
- Sprinkler Head Repair in Houston
- Sprinkler Zone Repair in League City
Field notes we actually say on this job
- Blank display after a thunderstorm
- Zones running at noon in August
- Lost program every time the power blinks
- Wi-Fi controller offline
- Wrong seasonal adjust
- No 24-volt output to the valves
Questions we get on this pairing
Can you reprogram my existing timer?
Yes. A lot of “broken” systems are bad start times and a rain sensor jumper.
Do you install Wi-Fi sprinkler controllers?
Yes, when the Wi-Fi reaches the garage wall. We will not pretend a dead spot is a feature.
Will a new controller fix dry spots?
Only if the old program was the problem. Heads and pressure still have to work.
Keep reading (different streets, different repairs)
- Richmond’s Aliana is the new parkway belt — Pecan Grove is laterals. Aliana is parkway sprays. Same Fort Bend day.
- League City controllers and salt air — Gulf air eats boards. A panel that blanks after every storm is a hardware problem, not a program problem.
- West U rebuilds need a design, not a leftover grid — New slab, old neighbor laterals, canopy shade. Permits in the quote.
- River Oaks beds are drip, not leftover spray — Azaleas on a spray valve cook. Split the bed. Filter and regulate.
- How to read a Houston water meter for a leak — Irrigation off. Sweep hand still moving. Main or house. Zone isolation next. Then a trench on a mark, not a hope.
Irrigation Pro repairs lawn sprinklers across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, and Waller counties. Other markets come later — Houston is first. Call 713-555-1212 or schedule a visit. Email service@irrigationpro.com.
Also see how a Houston sprinkler repair visit works, FAQ, systems we repair, and all cities we serve.