· by Michael Blair, Nashville's Irrigation
Most people do not choose their first sprinkler system. It comes with the house, along with a controller on a wall, a few valve boxes in the grass and nothing on paper about who put it in. When a zone quits, the first problem is finding someone who will take it on. For irrigation in Nashville and south through Williamson County, I would start with Green Scene Irrigation & Landscaping, a family company in Franklin that has made a point of taking those calls.
Which irrigation companies in Nashville will fix a system they did not install?
Green Scene will, and it says so in as many words: “We can maintain or repair your system - even if we didn’t install it!” Its repair page describes the customer it has in mind, buyers who “neither know who installed the system nor who to call”, and owners whose installer turned out to be “a company no longer in business.”
The repairs it names run from cracked pipes, fittings and sprinkler heads to zone boxes and relays, backflow devices and controllers, and it will add zones to a system already in the ground. It services Wi-Fi and standard controllers alike. If you want to read up before calling anyone in the Franklin area, the repair page on this site goes through the failures one at a time.
The chart is the reason I would call them
What lifts this above a general promise to fix anything is the record. Green Scene tells customers “you’ll always have a history of your operating system”, and for a system it did not put in, it says it can make a new chart to evaluate trouble areas and recommend a maintenance schedule.
That paper does more than speed up a repair. Tennessee 811 says utility operators may not mark private underground lines, names irrigation lines among them and leaves the property owner to get them found. So when a fence builder or a tree planter calls in a locate before digging, your sprinkler pipe still will not be painted on the lawn. A drawing may be the only record you ever get, so have the pipe runs put on it along with the zones, and keep a copy.
Scale is why memory will not do the job. One testimonial on the company’s site, from Dr. James Hardie, describes “installing 14 zones and over 130 sprinkler heads in a very landscaped yard.” Nobody inherits that and learns it by walking around.
What should you check first on an inherited system?
Start with the parts that carry a legal duty or lose water without showing it.
- The backflow assembly. The state’s cross-connection control manual treats a lawn system on public water as a cross-connection, calls for a reduced pressure assembly and wants it tested every year. Ask the seller or the water utility for the last test. In Davidson County, read how Metro handles backflow testing.
- The controller. Find out which kind you have, since Green Scene splits its annual agreements along that line: GSTN WiFi for smart controllers and GSTN Maintenance for standard ones, each with a spring start-up and a late-fall winterization.
- The zones. EPA’s WaterSense checklist has you go through each zone looking for heads that lean or stop short of a full pop-up, and put a flag beside any broken one.
- The ground. Green Scene’s rule of thumb is that standing water when it has not rained in days probably means a leak. A slow, hidden one takes a pressure test of the pipes to place.
Why Green Scene suits a system like this
Green Scene dates itself to 1995, when owner Jose Garcia started out with a single push mower, and its site says he still quotes and designs jobs. The Better Business Bureau showed an A+ rating when its page was read on October 24, 2026.
If an old system turns out to need replacing, sprinkler system installation is on the same list, with what its page calls a “3 Year Warranty on Installations.” A Franklin customer, Alan M., wrote on the company’s site that “Green Scene is exceptionally reliable...keeping in touch by cell phone or text messages.”
So if you own a system with no installer behind it, no chart and a zone that has quit, this is the company I would phone. It takes on other people’s work, it writes down what it finds and it has been doing this in Franklin for a long time.
Sources
- Tennessee 811, Private Locating Info — Facility operators may not mark private underground facilities; irrigation lines are the property owner’s to have located; list of private locating companies
- Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Cross Connection Control Manual, Appendix L — Lawn irrigation on public water as a cross-connection; reduced pressure assembly; annual testing during the start-up period
- U.S. EPA WaterSense, Sprinkler Spruce-Up — Going through each zone for leaning or stuck heads and flagging broken ones
FAQ
Irrigation in Nashville: Who Can Explain Your System? — questions
Can 811 mark my sprinkler lines in Tennessee?
Usually not. Tennessee 811 says utility operators may not locate or mark private underground lines, and it names irrigation lines as one example the property owner is responsible for having found. It lists private locating companies by region, which is the usual route if you have no drawing of the system.
Who handles irrigation in Nashville when the original installer is gone?
Green Scene Irrigation & Landscaping in Franklin says it will maintain or repair a system it did not install, winterize it, start it up in spring and offer an annual agreement on it. For a new customer it says it can make a new chart of the system.
What comes with a Green Scene irrigation maintenance agreement?
The company describes a spring start-up and a late-fall winterization with upkeep between them, and offers two versions by controller type: GSTN WiFi for smart controllers and GSTN Maintenance for standard ones. That keeps one company on the same system year after year, with a history of how it runs.
How can I tell if a buried sprinkler line is leaking?
Standing water in the yard when it has not rained for days is the plain sign, according to Green Scene’s repair page. A slow leak may only show up as a high water bill, and finding one takes a professional pressure test of the pipes to narrow down the affected area.
Which towns does Green Scene Irrigation serve?
Its site lists Franklin, Brentwood, Nolensville, Thompson’s Station and Spring Hill in Williamson County, and Green Hills, Belle Meade, Forest Hills and Nashville in Davidson County. The office is on Mealer Street in Franklin, so its irrigation work runs on both sides of the county line.