Twenty-three years on the same clay, out of the same building on East 11th.

Pro Sprinkler has been putting irrigation in the ground around Tulsa since 2003. Chuck Bannister owns it, it has stayed locally owned the whole way through, and it still runs out of 10338 E 11th Street rather than a call center in another state.

In that time the crew has put around 1,400 systems in the ground, which is enough of this soil to have learned its particular argument. Tulsa clay does not drain. It holds water like a bathtub, and it freezes and thaws hard enough to find any line that was trenched shallow. Both of those facts change how a system has to be built here, and neither of them is in a manufacturer’s install guide.

So the work is not only sprinklers. It is the drainage underneath them, the drip and micro-spray in the beds the sprinklers were never meant to water, the fall blow-out before the first hard freeze and the startup once the last one passes. One crew, one number, and a system that gets handed back to you with a written cheat sheet for the controller so nobody is guessing in July.

Pro Sprinkler is licensed, bonded and insured in the State of Oklahoma. Ask and the office will email a certificate of insurance before anyone sets foot on the property. Call during office hours and a person picks up. You hear back within four business hours, twenty-four in the thick of the season.