Broken heads, misaligned nozzles, leaking laterals, and the dry patch that watering more will not fix.
A sprinkler head takes a beating no other part of the system does — mowers clip it, cars back over it, sprinklers sink into soft ground until the spray pattern is half underground. Add a nozzle that was never matched to its throw distance or a broken lateral line leaking pressure into the soil before it reaches the head, and you get the same visible symptom, a dry or soggy patch, from three different causes that get fixed three different ways.
The design rule most systems violate is head-to-head coverage — each head's spray is supposed to reach the next head, not stop short of it. Where that was never set up right, or has drifted as heads settled or got bumped, the fix is adjusting spacing and pattern, not adding minutes to the schedule. Mixing spray heads and rotors on the same zone causes a related problem: they put down water at very different rates, so one applies its water long before the other is close to done, and no amount of run-time tuning fixes a rate mismatch.
Describe the symptom and we will match you with an irrigation contractor who traces the actual cause before replacing anything.
Get an Irrigation Pro OutA rough description is plenty — we will follow up to narrow it down before anyone comes out.
