In March 2025 my mother - living in Irvine - had a very good experience with Raul Ochoa, a person who she found to be highly recommended on the Next Door app. He is the owner of Tip Top Irrigation LLC with phone number 714-829-9531.
Raul repaired both her sprinklers and a wooden gate at a rental house. He replaced a faulty solenoid on the sprinklers and basically rebuilt and renovated a badly sagging gate dividing the front from the rear yard. For the sprinklers, he charged $150 to come out and look and fix the problem but he didn't charge anything additional for the small parts he installed, or for coming back to the house to make a second needed sprinkler repair. For the dilapidated gate, which had a solid post but was scraping the ground and had holes and weathered paint, he charged about $260, which included obtaining and providing new wood for cross-bracing, filling the holes, and repainting the gate on both sides in a color matching the original (to make the association happy).
Raul texted my mother documents indicating that his LLC company is registered with the CA Secretary of State. The address listed for his company is his residence in Santa Ana. She found him to be a very courteous and intelligent person who came promptly when he said he would come and finished both of her jobs quickly and professionally.
Now, a year later in June 2026, I just recommended Raul to a neighbor who had very high water bills due to a leaky pipe located under her yard. She was thrilled with his promptness in coming to her home, his hard work over many hours in diagnosing the exact location of the leak, and his skill in replacing the pipe without tearing up her driveway. In addition, because he worked alone with low overhead, she said that his charge for this major sprinkler repair was about half of what a competitor would have charged.
Based on these experiences, I recommend that people with irrigation-related problems contact Raul for a quote. read more