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At Baker Company, we provide irrigation services in St. Augustine, FL, for homes and commercial properties.
Whether you have a broken sprinkler, a leaking line, or a lawn that’s green in one corner and brown in the other, we’re here to help, and we’ve been since 1998.
Tell us what’s happening, and we’ll help you figure out the next step. Call us at (904) 794-7001 or schedule your free consultation.
Feel free to ask any landscaping or gardening questions over the phone, or get in touch via our contact form below.
Your lawn and planting beds don’t need the same amount of water everywhere, and no two yards need the same watering. A sunny strip by the driveway dries out fast in sandy coastal soil, while a shaded bed beside it can stay damp for days.
After more than 25 years as an irrigation company in St. Augustine, FL, we’ve learned to design and repair around those differences instead of treating the whole yard alike.
Our irrigation services in St. Augustine, FL, cover repairs, new installations, maintenance, and upgrades for residential and commercial properties, each one matched to what your yard actually needs.
A new irrigation system should fit the property it’s watering. Before we dig a single trench, we walk the site, test your water pressure, and note where the sun bakes the lawn and where shade holds moisture.
Sandy coastal soil drains fast, so a sunny lawn can dry out between rains while a shaded bed ten feet away stays damp.
Every irrigation system installation we do in St. Augustine, FL, takes this into consideration, and that’s precisely why we work with zones. We group sprinklers and drip lines together on one schedule, so every zone of your yard gets the watering it needs, when it needs it.
Lawn irrigation installation in St. Augustine, FL, comes down to coverage. We position each head so the spray overlaps evenly, reaches the edges, and stays off your driveway, patio, and walls.
We install Rain Bird and Hunter equipment and program the controller before we leave, so the system runs right from day one.
Drip irrigation delivers water slowly at the roots through tubing and emitters (the small outlets that release the water). It’s the right call for shrubs, flower beds, and native plantings where overhead spray would miss the soil or soak the pavement.
For most landscape irrigation installations in St. Augustine, FL, we mix both: sprinkler zones for turf, and drip zones for beds, each with its own schedule.
If you’re redoing the landscape too, our landscape and irrigation construction services go together.
You notice it first as a brown stripe along the driveway. Then the head next to it starts watering the street instead of the lawn.
That doesn’t mean you need a whole new system. As an irrigation contractor in St. Augustine, FL, we check the zone, coverage, pressure, and controller before we recommend anything. We repair:
North Florida winters aren’t mild on irrigation. A January cold snap can crack pipes, freeze valves, and shift heads, and most people don’t notice until spring, when a zone won’t start. We get these calls every February.
Near the coast, in Vilano Beach and St. Augustine Beach, salt air corrodes metal fittings and valve parts faster than it does inland. We check for both before summer watering season ramps up.
To stay ahead of it, our irrigation system maintenance plans cover seasonal checks, adjustments, and minor repairs that keep your irrigation system in St. Augustine, FL, running all year.
Weak pressure doesn’t automatically mean a bad pump. A leak, a stuck valve, or a restriction in the line can look exactly the same.
Pumps supply the pressure, and valves control the water going into each zone. We trace the actual cause first, then repair or replace only what’s failed.
For residential irrigation in St. Augustine, FL, we design around how you actually use your yard: the play area, the vegetable beds, the patio you don’t want soaked during dinner.
As a residential irrigation company in St. Augustine, FL, we handle repairs, upgrades, and residential irrigation installation for homes from Palencia to Nocatee. Lawn irrigation and landscape irrigation in St. Augustine need to be planned as one system, not two, and we do it that way.
Commercial irrigation in St. Augustine, FL, runs on accountability. HOAs, retail plazas, churches, and schools need steady coverage, records they can hand to the next board, and one contact who knows the property.
As a commercial irrigation company in St. Augustine, FL, we provide as-built records for every commercial irrigation installation in St. Augustine, FL. Our Baker Co Direct portal also lets residents and property managers report issues straight to us.
We repair and install sprinkler systems, drip irrigation, and smart controller setups, including Rain Bird and Hunter equipment. Not sure what's in the ground? We'll identify it on the first visit.
Most problems come down to one head, one valve, or one controller, and those get repaired. Replacement makes sense when failures keep repeating, or the layout no longer fits your landscape. We'll show you what we found and tell you which we'd do.
Yes. Freeze damage often hides until you run the system again in spring. Run each zone and look for heads that don't rise, wet spots that won't dry, or a zone that won't start. If anything looks off, call us before summer.
Yes. Smart controllers adjust watering to the weather, drip conversions put water at the roots, and rezoning keeps sun and shade areas off the same schedule. We check for leaks first, because a new controller can't fix a cracked line.
Property size, number of zones, water supply, equipment, and digging conditions. Our free consultation includes a site visit and a real quote, so you'll know the number before you decide.
J.M. Baker Company Inc.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to