Home Owners' Associations Wasting Water?

Home Owners' Associations may be wasting a lot of money on their water bill. Why? Because they are set up to be the perfect water wasting machine. Everyone in the Association pays into the the fund that pays the water bill.

The one that pays the water bill has nothing to compare to, so the bill gets paid as a "normal" expense. So the sprinkler system runs during the rain, (very bad for PR, but not that big an impact on the bill), waters the same amount whether it needs it or not, and has been shown to be watering up to 100% too much.

The HOA scenario is exactly the same as just about every sprinkler system around with one huge difference. Some Home Owners' Associations are paying tens of thousands of dollars in water bills.

A Rainstat Controller could be saving that Association from 20% to 50% of that expense. We're talking about some real money here that could be spent on other areas or used to reduce fees or offset future increases . . .

We are in the process of preparing proposals for some Waco HOAs with very aggressive pricing. We want to make a point that the old, dumb controllers need to go away. They require you to make decisions you aren't equipped to make.

Dumb controllers require you to convert your "inches of rain" thoughts into "days and minutes" actions. You have all the weather information you need--probably on your cell phone. But how on earth do you translate that into the language your dumb controller speaks?

If you do get it figured out, it goes out of date the next time the weather changes.

A Rainstat Smart Controller replaces just the water your plants use and reprograms itself every day! So it becomes impossible to waste water through over-watering or runoff.

Are you a member of a Home Owners' Association? Do you know of a Home Owners' Association that waters large areas of common area grass? Tell them to call us for a Value Proposal that reflects an actual Return on Investment. It's free.

Call Drew at 254.829.3800 or Doug at 254.744.1724 to schedule a site visit.

Is It Time to Update Your Technology?

Picture a chisel and a rock vs. a pencil.

Or, how about a more up-to-date comparison of a ledger book and a computer with accounting software. The old way still works but the new way is better (faster, cheaper . . . ).

That's the way the Rainstat controller is. Your old sprinkler controller still works, but it is obsolete. Throw it away. Quickly.

The new controller is the same forward step you took when you got a controller in the first place (instead of turning on manual valves).

Maybe I'm wrong. Let Rainstat Irrigation look at your sprinkler system. We will both know within 10 minutes if it is a good move for you.

Call now to talk to a real person (most of the time). 254.829.3800

The Inertia of "No"

This is a topic that's on my mind even though it has absolutely nothing to do with irrigation. Here goes!

"No" is almost always the right answer if the criteria for judgment of rightness is the provability of wrongness.

What?

Consider this conversation:
"Should we do this?"
"No."
"Right answer."
"How do you know "no" is the right answer?"
"If I say "yes" and you do it and it fails, you know I approved the wrong thing to do. But if I tell you not to do it, you will likely not know anything good or bad so you can't prove that not doing it was wrong." It's the inertia of "No."

Inertia is a noun. According to Apple's dictionary, it means:
1) a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged : the bureaucratic inertia of government.
2) Physics• a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.

Jesus, from the Bible, told a story about a boss giving three employees some money to manage while he was on an extended trip. Two of the men risked his money in profit-potential projects and doubled their money. One, because he was afraid of losing his boss' money, locked it in a safe place and simply returned the money that was given him. Jesus, through his storied employer, praised the two that risked his money and doubled it and condemned the man that hid it out of fear. The boss said the employee could have at least put the money in the bank and gained the interest.

Have you ever considered an alternative to this story?

The alternative story begins the same but the outcome is changed. When the boss returns, the two that risked the money in profit potential projects, lost it and the one that kept it in a safe place out of fear, returned all that the boss left to his keeping.

Would the boss condemn the two that lost it and praise the one that returned all that was entrusted to him?

Hmm.

Would you take just a minute and tell us what you think? My next post will be my thoughts on it.

Self-Serving Change In Tag Line

"The best way to repair or upgrade your sprinkler system without getting soaked." It's self-serving chest-thumping, I know. But in thinking about how we go about the relatively simple task of replacing a sprinkler head, we do it so you should NEVER have to address that head again!

Does it cost more? That depends on whether your looking at cost from the initial expense to get the job done or the cost over the life of your system. The answer is probably "yes" and "no." Yes, it probably will cost you more to have it done right as apposed to just unscrewing one head and screwing another in its place. No, when you consider that you should never ever have to address that head again.

It's the old "pay me now or pay me later" reply, but if that head has to be repaired again (because your riding lawn mower broke the riser again), you shot yourself in the foot by paying too little.

Here's the new tag line, "The best way to permanently repair or upgrade your sprinkler system without getting soaked."

Okay. I feel better now. What do you think?

Doug Saylor
Rainstat Irrigation
254.829.3800