About Ocala Irrigation Repair

Ocala Irrigation Repair is an independently operated local irrigation repair service covering Ocala and Marion County. Our techs handle sprinkler head, valve, controller, rain sensor, and line repair work, on whichever property type you have: a subdivision lot on city water, a 55+ community home, or acreage running off a private well.

Why the site is built this way

Marion County has real local complexity that a generic sprinkler-repair page ignores. Most of the county, including Ocala, currently waters one day a week under a St. Johns River Water Management District order. Dunnellon and The Villages follow a different schedule entirely, set by Southwest Florida Water Management District. Florida law requires a working rain sensor on automatic systems, and a licensed contractor who works on any system, however old, must test it and fix or install one before finishing. And a meaningful share of properties here, particularly the horse farms and larger lots, run irrigation off a private well rather than city water, which is a different failure mode than a sprinkler technician alone can fix.

We built this business around answering those specifics honestly instead of publishing the same page every sprinkler site in Florida runs.

Published prices. Diagnostic visit $75 to $150. Typical repairs: sprinkler heads $15 to $50 installed, valves $150 to $350, controller repair $100 to $250 or replacement $200 to $600, broken lines $100 to $300 for a lateral or $200 to $600 for a mainline, rain sensors $100 to $250, a zone coverage fix $100 to $275, a full inspection or tune-up $90 to $200, drip conversion $250 to $800 per zone. Every range is on the pricing page before you call, not after.

Diagnosis before quote. We check the valve box, controller, and affected zone before naming a number. A “dead” zone gets tested for a stuck solenoid before anyone quotes a valve replacement. Expect to approve the price before work starts.

Honesty about scope. Our techs handle the sprinkler side: heads, valves, controllers, sensors, lines, and drip zones. The pump and the well itself are a separate trade. When a diagnostic visit points to a pump that won’t prime or a well losing yield, we say so plainly and point you toward a well contractor instead of guessing at a fix on the wrong side of the problem.

Honesty about “licensed.” When an ad says “licensed,” ask which license and who issued it, because the word alone tells you little. Ask to see proof of insurance rather than taking a claim on faith, ask for a written diagnosis, and ask what anyone you hire, us included, will not touch.

Who does the work

Our techs work Rain Bird, Hunter, Orbit/B-hyve, and Toro systems, on both municipal-water and well-fed properties. Ask anyone you hire, us included, which license they hold and who issued it, and ask to see proof of insurance, before work begins. See the brands section for what typically fails first on each system, and what a repair on it runs.

The water rules deserve a check on every call: which of the two water management districts’ rules apply to a given address, what the current watering-day schedule actually is, and what Florida’s rain sensor law (F.S. 373.62) requires, which a licensed contractor must test on any system they work on. Getting that right up front saves a wasted trip and tells you honestly whether your “broken” controller is actually just set to the correct, current schedule.

The honest limits of what we do

We are not a licensing authority and we do not make legal determinations. Where a license or code requirement genuinely matters, such as the rain sensor law, we state what the requirement is and link the source, and the advice is always the same: ask any technician, us included, which license they hold and who issued it. We do not claim certifications, years in business, staff names, or job counts we haven’t earned, and we never will.

Have a system doing something you can’t explain? Check the FAQ for quick answers, or send us the symptom, the affected zones, and whether the system runs on city water or a well, and you’ll get a straight answer back.