Sprinkler and irrigation service
Fits best: a problem-solver who likes troubleshooting more than heavy labor.
Pros
- ✓Spring start-ups and fall blowouts book themselves every year
- ✓Customers come back on a schedule
- ✓High margin per job
Cons
- !Six busy months, then very quiet
- !Reviews and steady marketing decide who wins locally
- !Check your state’s licensing before you start
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 45 visits a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 90 visits a month in season. Add yard maintenance for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add backflow testing and landscape lighting to even out the year.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add backflow testing and landscape lighting to even out the year.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck
- Repeat customers
- High
- Licensing
- Medium
- Season
- Spring and fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Backflow testing certification adds a recurring line.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (90), times 6 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.