A Newmarket-based irrigation contractor working the Toronto neighbourhoods where lawn matters — North York's estate lots, Lawrence Park's garden gardens, Forest Hill's tree-lined streets. Installation, repair, spring openings, fall winterization, drip and landscape lighting, all with published pricing and a 1-year guarantee on the work we do.
PJL Land Services is run out of Newmarket. We're not a Toronto-headquartered company and we don't pretend to be. What we are is a founder-led irrigation crew that has worked the Yonge corridor north of the 401 long enough to know where lawn irrigation actually pays back its cost — and where a quote like ours doesn't make sense.
Toronto coverage from PJL focuses on three neighbourhood clusters: North York (Willowdale through the Bridle Path), Lawrence Park and Forest Hill. These are the parts of the city where you'll find the kind of property a system is built for — a real front-and-back lawn, mature landscaping that needs more than a hose, hedge lines and beds that benefit from a drip overlay, and an owner who'd rather have the system run itself reliably than fight a tangle of garden hoses every July.
We're an hour from the 401 in average traffic and pushing 70+ minutes in summer Friday rush. Same-day routing is a commitment we keep for our York Region core (Newmarket, Aurora, King City, Richmond Hill) where we can keep our promise. For Toronto, we book on a priority basis — usually 1 to 3 business days during peak season — so the customer gets a real arrival window instead of an optimistic guess.
Each neighbourhood page below goes into local detail — the lot types, the irrigation challenges specific to that pocket, and the services we run most often there. The same pricing and the same crew apply across all three.
Willowdale, Bayview Village, York Mills, Hoggs Hollow, Bridle Path, Don Mills, Bayview Woods. Multi-zone estate systems, ravine-bottom lots, teardown-rebuild installs, mature canopy and tree-root work.
See North York →One of Toronto's original garden suburbs. Curving tree-lined streets, large landscaped lots, established gardens and hedging where drip overlay pairs well with the lawn zones.
See Lawrence Park →Affluent established neighbourhood, mature trees and hedge-lined properties. Premium lots — often tighter than they look — and steady demand for discreet drip plus landscape lighting.
See Forest Hill →The same four service lines we run for every customer, scaled to Toronto neighbourhoods where lots are larger, gardens are older and the tree canopy gets a vote in the routing.
Slow re-pressurization, zone-by-zone test, leak inspection, nozzle adjustment, controller programming for the season. Booking opens in March; Toronto slots fill earlier than York Region because the urban heat island pushes the safe-open window up by a week or two.
From $90 (1-4 zones)Pro low-pressure compressor blow-out. Every lateral and the mainline emptied so nothing freezes and cracks over winter. Book by the second week of October before the first hard frost lands.
From $90 (1-4 zones)Stuck valves, broken heads, mystery wet spots, pressure drops, controller faults. Priority scheduling for Toronto — usually 1-3 business days in season, sooner when a route is going through.
$95 service call + parts & labourDesigned for the lot, not from a template. Hunter heads, Hunter HPC-400 Hydrawise smart controller standard. North York estate builds often run 8-16 zones; Lawrence Park and Forest Hill systems frequently pair lawn zones with drip overlay on hedges and beds.
Calculator pricing by zone countRetrofit your existing system with the Hunter HPC-400 Hydrawise WiFi controller. App control, predictive weather-skipping, real-time leak alerts. Typical install runs under 90 minutes.
From $595 (1-4 zones)Particularly relevant for Lawrence Park and Forest Hill gardens — long hedge runs, perennial beds, raised vegetable beds, container plantings. Designed as a separate zone off your main controller.
Custom quote by run lengthWe publish pricing because trust starts before the call. Spring openings and fall closings are flat-rate services covering the system check and standard adjustments (alignment, arc, rotation — head replacement is a separate repair line). Any repairs needed are flagged on-site, quoted separately, and only carried out after your approval.
| Zones | Service Price (CAD) |
|---|---|
| 1–4 zones | $90 |
| 5–6 zones | $105 |
| 7–8 zones | $120 |
| 9–15 zones | $165 |
| 16+ zones | Custom quote |
Spring and fall use the same tier prices. Commercial pricing available — call for a quote.
| Item | Price (CAD) |
|---|---|
| Service call (mobilization + on-site assessment) | $95 |
| Repair labour (per hour) | $95 |
| Sprinkler head replacement (any size, any type) | $68 |
| Pipe break repair (up to 3 ft of 1" pipe) | $120 |
| 3-valve manifold rebuild | $135 + valves |
Repair labour is billed separately from the service call. No Toronto premium — pricing matches what we publish for York Region and the broader GTA.
Tier 1 (1–4 zones): $585 base + $549 per zone. Tier 2 (5–7 zones): $749 base + $549 per zone. Larger estate systems (8-16 zones, common in North York) are scoped on-site. Installs include Hunter heads, Hunter HPC-400 Hydrawise WiFi smart controller, and our 1-year guarantee.
Every spring opening across Toronto includes a full system check before we leave the property:
Backflow testing is a separately-licensed trade in Ontario. PJL does not service backflow assemblies but can refer you to a certified tester if yours needs annual recertification.
PJL focuses on the Yonge-corridor north and central Toronto neighbourhoods where lawn irrigation actually makes sense — North York (Willowdale, Bayview Village, York Mills, Hoggs Hollow, Bridle Path, Don Mills, Bayview Woods), Lawrence Park, and Forest Hill. These are the lots large enough and landscaped enough that a designed sprinkler or drip system pays back its cost in time saved and water conservation. We do not currently route into downtown high-rise neighbourhoods or central infill where lawn area is minimal.
Toronto sits 50-70 minutes from our Newmarket base depending on traffic and time of day. We schedule Toronto repair calls on a priority basis rather than a same-day guarantee — most jobs land within 1-3 business days during peak season (April through October). York Region addresses (Newmarket, Aurora, King City, Richmond Hill) get true same-day routing; Toronto is next-available with priority slots so you get a real arrival window instead of a missed promise.
The City of Toronto (Municipal Code Chapter 851) does not enforce a permanent odd/even watering schedule the way York Region does. Toronto Water draws from Lake Ontario and applies voluntary conservation guidance — water deeply once or twice per week in the early morning, avoid evening watering that leaves grass wet overnight. The City retains the authority to declare mandatory restrictions during supply emergencies. We program every controller we install or service to conservative defaults that comply if restrictions are escalated.
Yes — and it matters more in Toronto than elsewhere in the GTA. Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 658 (the Private Tree By-law) protects any tree on private property with a trunk diameter of 30 cm or more. Trenching for irrigation lines inside the protected root zone can require a permit. On older Toronto lots with mature canopy, this changes how we route mainlines and where we tee laterals. We walk the property and flag any protected trees before we commit to a route — and we'd rather lose the job than damage a tree the customer wanted to keep.
Our pricing is the same across the GTA — no Toronto premium. Service call (mobilization plus on-site assessment) is $95. Repair labour is billed at $95 from there. Common parts: head replacement $68, pipe break repair from $120, 3-valve manifold rebuild from $135 plus valves. We publish full pricing on this page so there are no surprises on the invoice.
Priority scheduling, published pricing, 1-year guarantee on the work we do.
If you want to learn more about a specific service before booking, the pages below go deeper.
Adjacent York Region cities for customers comparing service-area coverage: