
Serving Sulphur, OK and surrounding areas
In business since 1995
Free estimates
Emergency services offered
"We bought a home about 2 years ago that came with an older 6-zone sprinkler system. While the system worked, we noticed some heads were leaking, broken, not watering to our liking, etc. We figured $60 for an estimate and hopefully some tuning up couldn't hurt. <br /> After we purchased the deal it was pretty simple to get ahold of John with Shades of Green. He arrived when he said he would, was personable and professional and spent easily over an hour going over our system. I'm going to guess he was here closer to two hours. <br /> John raised a few rotors, adjusted a few more, repaired a busted head, buried a head that for some reason had never been buried by the previous owner and even changed out one type of head that wasn't giving good coverage for a different spray pattern style. <br /> The work he did was easily worth twice to three times what I paid. <br /> Its no secret, they obviously are doing this special to establish relationships with hopefully new longterm customers because they have to be losing money with the special itself. The audit is a good way to make a good first impression and then (if needed) provide an estimate to do more elaborate fixes, tuning up or expansion. <br /> Our system certainly needed more work than I expect to get done with the audit. But the audit was an excellent value for the money. <br /> After the audit was done I received an email with an estimate of the repairs John felt were needed now and that we should discuss more expensive expansion after the current system was running as it should - which I agree. <br /> The estimate did not include any unnecessary work to be done. I agree with everything John said needed to be addressed. The estimate for additional work came to $630 to replace and/or add about 11 rotors and cap two. I haven't had those repairs/updates done yet as winter was getting here - and honestly, I felt the estimate was a bit high and I wanted to check around. <br /> That said, I think virtually all sprinkler repair people charge too much (with the exception of this audit deal - you CANNOT beat that price for the work done). Take a walk down any big box home improvement store sprinkler parts isle and you'll quickly realize the parts are dirt cheap in most cases. So, you are paying for labor. The good news is, that should mean there is room to negotiate or find a decent price. <br /> I'm getting other estimates now. But, if John's price is within 10-20% of the best deal I feel comfortable with, then I'd gladly pay the difference to have John with Shades of Green do the work. <br /> Based on my experience I would not hesitate to recommend this deal to family or friends. That said, always compare prices for additional work, but don't necessarily go with the cheapest if you find someone you trust who does a good job. <br />"










