Start by separating controller faults from water-flow faults. A timer can look correct while a valve, filter, pipe, pressure issue, blocked dripper, or zoning mistake keeps the root zone dry.
Choose the correct irrigation path
- Irrigation repair guide for timers, leaks, drippers, dry areas, weak pressure, and uneven watering.
- Irrigation systems and timers for zone, timer, leak, and controller questions.
- Watering timing and heatwave survival for summer watering, heatwaves, holiday absence, and overwatering checks.
- Is the irrigation timer set correctly? when the display and the plants disagree.
- Some irrigation zones are not turning on for disabled zones, wiring, valves, or pressure issues.
- Finding an irrigation leak when paving, walls, soil, or one bed stays wet.
- What an irrigation repair quote should include before comparing providers.
First checks
- Run each zone manually and watch the actual water flow.
- Check whether the controller has power and the correct days, start times, and duration.
- Look for wet paving, bubbling soil, split pipe, loose fittings, or sudden greener patches.
- Compare dry plants with the visible irrigation layout.
- Check whether end-of-line plants are dry while near-tap plants are fine.
- Check recent triggers: power cut, construction, pruning, new planting, heatwave, or a changed schedule.
Water waste signals
Do not keep adding minutes if water is leaking, running off, missing pots, spraying paving, or staying near the surface. In Cyprus summer, the useful test is whether water reaches the root zone after the cycle.
Better request details
Send the property area, controller photos, current schedule, valve and pipe photos, dry-zone photos, leaking-zone photos, garden size, plant types, and whether the system is drip, sprinklers, or mixed.
FAQ
Why can plants be dry when the irrigation timer runs?
The controller display only proves a schedule exists. Dry plants can still come from blocked drippers, closed valves, split pipes, weak pressure, wrong zones, or water running onto paving.
What should an irrigation repair request include?
Include photos of the controller, valves, leaking or dry areas, current schedule, garden size, plant types, city or village, and when the problem started.