Sprinkler heads take more abuse than any other part of an irrigation system. Mower decks clip them, car tires flatten the ones near the driveway, and winter frost heaves them up out of the soil until they're spraying at the sky. L.I. Sprinkler & Gutter Corp handles sprinkler head repair and replacement across Levittown, NY, and the nearby towns, getting broken and misaligned heads back to covering the ground they were meant to cover.
Repair work keeps our trucks busy from April through October at L.I. Sprinkler & Gutter Corp, a residential irrigation company Jay Hurtado has owned since 2010. The business operates from Levittown, NY, maintains 600 to 700 sprinkler systems, and serves twenty communities throughout Nassau County, among them East Meadow, Bellmore, Hicksville, Plainedge, Seaford, and Oyster Bay. Sprinkler head repair and replacement covers snapped risers, cracked bodies, worn nozzles, sunken and tilted heads, and mismatched replacements, using Hunter, Irritrol, and K-Ring parts carried on the truck and backed by a two-year workmanship warranty.
The call usually comes right after a mowing. Water is shooting straight up out of the lawn in one spot, or a stretch of grass that used to green up nicely has started going pale while everything around it looks normal.
Heads sit right at the surface, which puts them in the path of everything that crosses the yard. A mower blade catches a riser that crept up over the winter and snaps it clean off. Foot traffic and tires push others down below grade, where the spray hits turf instead of clearing it. Sand works into the nozzle until the pattern narrows, and the internal seal on an older head eventually wears out and lets water weep around the riser even with the zone off. Any of those drops pressure for every head downstream, so trouble spreads well past the part that actually failed.
Fixing it starts with running the zone and watching. We look for heads that won't pop up, ones stuck partway, ones throwing water sideways, and the ones missing entirely. Damaged units come out and get replaced with a matching model, since a rotor dropped in where a spray head belongs puts down water at a completely different rate and throws the whole zone out of balance. Sunken heads get raised back to grade, tilted ones get straightened and repacked, arcs get reset, and worn nozzles get swapped for the correct size. The zone runs again while we check the overlap.
Coverage comes back during the same visit, and the brown patch generally recovers over the next two or three weeks. Pressure holds across the zone again, which means the heads at the far end stop dribbling. Most head work wraps up in under an hour, and catching it early keeps an inexpensive part from costing you a section of lawn.
Head work looks minor, though it changes how the entire zone performs.
Application rates vary between head types, so dropping the wrong one into a zone leaves part of the lawn wet and part of it dry. Every replacement gets matched to the spray pattern, throw distance, and output of the head that came out.
A head sitting low sprays into the grass in front of it, and a head sitting high becomes the next casualty of the mower. Resetting each one to proper height solves both problems in a single step.
Patterns shift over time, which is how driveways end up getting watered every morning. Resetting arcs and fitting the correct nozzle size returns the spray to where it belongs.
Common Hunter, Irritrol, and K-Ring heads and nozzles ride along with us, so the large majority of repairs finish during the first visit. Waiting on a part is rare.
Sprinkler head repair and replacement carries the same two-year workmanship warranty we put behind every job we take on.
Head trouble frequently traces back to something else in the system, and these are the repairs that turn up alongside it most often.
Valves control whether a zone runs at all, and a failing one produces symptoms that look a lot like head trouble from the surface. Sprinkler valve repair and replacement addresses stuck diaphragms, burned-out solenoids, and the wiring faults behind zones that won't respond.
Pressure loss that no amount of head work resolves usually means water is escaping below ground. Sprinkler leak and underground line repair locates the break, opens up as little lawn as possible, and gets the line holding pressure again.
Everything we fix on an irrigation system falls under sprinkler repair, from a single nozzle through full system diagnostics. Start there when you're not sure what's causing the problem in your yard.
Small repairs still deserve to be done properly, and here's our approach to them.
A snapped head often points toward a pressure problem or a neighboring head that's been struggling for a while. Running the full zone before packing up catches whatever else is developing.
Jay Hurtado spent more than twenty years in irrigation before starting the company, and that background shows up in knowing which heads fail early and which ones hold up on Long Island lawns.
Plenty of heads only need a new nozzle or a cleaning rather than a full swap. You'll hear that from us instead of getting billed for a part that had years left in it.
Diagnosing the problem and quoting the fix costs nothing, and you'll have the price in hand before we start turning wrenches.
Homes get our full attention because nothing else sits on the schedule. That focus keeps response times reasonable even through the busiest months.
Individual heads are among the least expensive repairs on a system, though the total depends on how many need attention and whether the riser or fitting below also gave out. We quote the job after running the zone so you're getting a real number rather than a guess over the phone.
A head that keeps getting hit usually sits too high or sits somewhere it shouldn't, often right along a mowing path. Resetting the grade or shifting it a few inches typically ends the cycle for good.
Swapping one out is within reach for a handy homeowner, provided you match the model, spray pattern, and nozzle to what came out. Mixing head types within a zone is the mistake we see most on customer-installed replacements around Levittown.
Heads can pop up and still fail to cover, usually because a nozzle is partly clogged with the fine sand common in Long Island soil or an arc got knocked out of position. Standing there and watching the zone run is the only way to know.
Yes. We service all the major manufacturers, and a lot of systems around Levittown and Bethpage predate our business entirely. Parts for the common brands ride on the truck no matter who put the system in.
Head repair FAQs reviewed by Jay Hurtado, owner of L.I. Sprinkler & Gutter Corp and a lawn sprinkler system contractor working across Nassau County since 2010.
A broken head ranks among the cheapest things on a sprinkler system to fix and one of the most expensive to ignore. Call L.I. Sprinkler & Gutter Corp and we'll get it sorted out.
Business Name: L.I. Sprinkler & Gutter Corp
Address: Levittown, NY, 11756
Phone: 516-225-5553
Business Hours:
Mon - Sat: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sun: Closed
2 Year Workmanship Warranty