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Irrigation installation in Reunion (34747) is planned around one fact: many Reunion homes sit empty between guest stays or owner visits. Reunion is a resort and master-planned community at Four Corners in Osceola County, built around three golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, and Arnold Palmer, with a mix of short-stay vacation rentals, condos, and permanent residences. A sprinkler system here has to hold its program when guests poke at it, shut itself off if a pipe breaks during an empty week, and handle yards that aren’t as flat as the rest of the county. Call (407) 674-2841.

Which county’s rules are you on?

Four Corners is where Osceola, Polk, Lake, and Orange counties meet, so the watering rules can change a few streets away.

Look at the name on your water bill and program the controller to that utility’s rules, not to whatever the rental across the line is doing.

Built for weeks when nobody’s home

Rental and second-home owners in Reunion usually want the same four things.

  • A controller guests can’t reprogram. Use a lockable box or put the controller in the owner’s closet or garage. A Wi-Fi smart controller lets the owner or manager pause, test, or adjust from a phone, and seasonal adjust handles the rainy-season cutback.
  • Leak protection. A master valve plus flow sensor shuts the system down when flow jumps, for example from a sheared head or a cracked lateral, and sends an alert. Without it, a break can run for days before the next guest arrives.
  • A rain sensor, which Florida law requires on automatic systems. It matters even more when nobody is there to switch the clock off during a week of storms.
  • Labels everyone can read. Station names in the app should match a printed zone map at the controller so the pool tech, cleaner, or manager can find a valve.

Sloped lots and the low-head puddle

Parts of Reunion roll more than the flat subdivisions east of Kissimmee, and golf-course lots often slope toward the fairway or a pond. That brings a problem flat lots rarely have: low-head drainage. After a zone shuts off, water left in the lateral drains out of the lowest heads, leaving a soggy strip at the bottom of the yard and a dry crown at the top.

What helps:

  • Heads with built-in check valves on sloped zones.
  • Separate zones for the top and bottom of a slope, so the bottom gets less run time.
  • Cycle-soak programs (several short runs instead of one long one) so water soaks into the slope instead of running down it.

Pools, pavers, and rental curb appeal

Most Reunion rentals are sold on the pool photo, so spray needs to stay off it.

  • Strip nozzles and adjustable arcs stop at the paver edge and the screen enclosure.
  • Drip for planters and palms around the deck instead of overhead spray.
  • Sleeves under new pavers before the hardscape goes in. Every bore under an existing deck should be listed on the quote.
  • Front-yard zones tuned for the listing photo, with even coverage head to head on the visible turf.

Cost

The site’s irrigation installation cost guide puts most quarter-acre systems at $2,500–$5,500 installed, priced at about $500–$900 per zone. Small yards start near $1,800. Large estate lots with lots of beds can reach $9,000.

What moves a Reunion quote:

  • Smart controller and flow sensing.
  • Check-valve heads and extra zones on sloped lots.
  • Drip zones around pool decks and planters.
  • Bores under existing pavers.

Before it’s called finished

  • Every zone run in daylight, including the low end of any slope, watching for puddles and overspray.
  • Flow sensor and master valve tested, rain sensor tested.
  • Controller set to your utility’s days, locked or app-controlled, with the zone map left on site and a copy sent to the manager.

Related Reunion pages: sod installation in Reunion, HOA sod in Reunion, drainage solutions in Reunion.

Quick answer

Irrigation installation in Reunion should plan for empty weeks: a lockable Wi-Fi controller, a master valve with flow sensing, and a tested rain sensor. Use check-valve heads on sloped golf-course lots, and keep spray off the pool deck. Program to your own utility’s rules, since Osceola and Polk differ at Four Corners. Most systems land at $2,500–$5,500 installed. Call (407) 674-2841.

When to call

Call (407) 674-2841 with your 34747 address, whether the home is a rental or owner-occupied, whether there’s a pool deck, and who has access to the controller. Out-of-state owners can send photos of the yard and the current timer. Send a question.

County-wide guide: irrigation installation