A well-designed sprinkler system is the difference between a landscape that survives a Conejo Valley summer and one that thrives through it. Evergreen Sprinklers has designed and installed irrigation systems across Thousand Oaks since 1972, licensed under CSLB #949420 (C36 – Plumbing).
A real installation starts before any trench is dug. We walk the property, measure static water pressure and flow at your meter, and map zones around how the landscape actually grows: turf separated from shrub beds, sun-baked southern exposures separated from shaded corners, and slopes handled on their own valves. Thousand Oaks sits on heavy clay in much of the city, and clay absorbs water slowly — so we design zones to support cycle-and-soak scheduling, where shorter run times repeat instead of one long soak that runs off into the gutter. From there the work is methodical: trenched supply and lateral lines, a serviceable valve manifold, heads with matched precipitation rates so every part of a zone gets the same amount of water, and a controller programmed for the season you’re actually in. We finish with a zone-by-zone walkthrough so you know what was built and how to run it.
It depends on the property, and any contractor quoting a firm number sight-unseen is guessing. The honest drivers are the number of zones, total coverage area, trench length and access, whether the supply side needs work, and which controller you choose. A small front-yard system and a full half-acre design are entirely different projects. What we can promise is how the number gets made: we come out, walk the yard with you, measure pressure and flow, and put a written scope and price in your hands at no charge — no pressure and no obligation. That estimate visit is also where we’ll tell you if you don’t need a full new system, because sometimes the right answer is a smaller fix.
We do both, so our recommendation isn’t a sales pitch. Repair usually wins when the problems are isolated: a broken head, one sticking valve, a single zone with weak coverage on an otherwise sound system. Replacement starts to win when failures recur across multiple zones, when laterals have gone brittle with age, when the zoning was designed for a landscape that no longer exists, or when the controller predates modern watering schedules entirely. If you’re weighing that call, our Thousand Oaks sprinkler repair page covers the repair side of the ledger — and the on-site estimate is where we’ll give you a straight answer about which path costs less over the next five years, not just this month.
Drip conversion is the quiet workhorse of water-wise landscaping. Shrub and flower beds that were watered by spray heads for decades can be converted to inline or point-emitter drip, which puts water at the root zone instead of on leaves, sidewalks, and stucco. With water rates climbing year over year, converted beds typically pay for themselves — and they stay healthier, because foliage that stays dry is foliage that resists fungus. Conversions can be done zone by zone on an existing system; you don’t have to rebuild everything to start. And if you’re redoing a yard entirely — new turf and new irrigation together — our sod installation work pairs naturally with a fresh system design.
We install and program Rachio 3 Pro, Hunter Hydrawise, and Orbit B-hyve smart controllers. All three adjust watering to actual weather instead of a fixed clock, and all three give you control from your phone — the differences come down to app preference, how many zones you’re running, and what the rest of your equipment is. We’ll set up the schedule, seasonal adjustments, and zone settings before we leave, so the controller is working for your specific yard on day one rather than running factory defaults. You can read more about the equipment lines we carry on our Hunter irrigation products page.
Installation is supply-side work: it touches your service line pressure, and where the job includes installing or repairing a backflow assembly, it falls squarely under our CSLB License #949420, Classification C36. Evergreen Sprinklers has been family-owned in the Conejo Valley since 1972 — the crew that designs and installs your system is the same local crew you’ll call for service years later, which is exactly why we build systems we won’t mind maintaining. We know how Thousand Oaks clay drains, which neighborhoods sit in wind, and what a schedule needs to look like here in August.
We design and install sprinkler systems throughout Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Oak Park, Moorpark, Camarillo, and across the Conejo Valley and Ventura County. Call (805) 390-7437 — we’ll walk the yard, measure your water pressure, and put a written estimate in your hands at no charge.
