Said It Here

Why are professional irrigation installation quotes so expensive?

Professional quotes for a standard yard routinely reach ten thousand dollars or more. These high costs force homeowners to weigh the burden of expensive contractor fees against attempting difficult and time-consuming DIY installations.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    Doing a DIY installation using a measuring tape, marking flags, and graph paper
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    Using online planning tools like the Rain Bird design service or Areaplane.com
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    Hiring professionals despite the high cost to save significant time and physical labor

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

I feel like the quotes I'm getting for about 7000 sqft of grass is a rip off... $10,000+ CAD quotes.source ↗

perhaps · r/lawncare · 2 upvotes

Subbed, going through the same thingsource ↗

woodford86 · r/lawncare · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

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