Holmes and Sons Irrigation Company Inc

Holmes and Sons Irrigation is a Mashpee company built around one job: getting an underground lawn sprinkler system in the ground, then keeping it running for the long haul. The company says it has been family-run since 1970, with Ron Holmes, Jr. and Matthew Holmes now handling the work across Cape Cod and into Plymouth and the South Shore. The clearest thread through recent reviews is longevity. Homeowners keep coming back to say they have used the company for 9, or 15, years running, for both new installs and the seasonal maintenance that follows. One customer had Holmes and Sons put in a new system at a Barnstable retirement home after 15 years of using them at a Sandwich property, and said the crew worked smoothly alongside her other contractors. Others single out the same things: calls returned quickly, arrival windows communicated clearly, and a property left clean after each visit. Two older reviews, from 2021 and 2022, strike a different note. One described the company as slow to give scheduling notice and rude on the phone; the other described a crew member driving a company truck aggressively and making rude comments toward a passing car. Neither complaint is echoed in the more recent reviews, but both are worth asking about if punctuality or crew conduct matters to you. For a Cape homeowner weighing a new irrigation install, or looking for someone to handle spring turn-ons and fall winterization, this is a shop with a long, mostly consistent track record and named owners who show up review after review — worth confirming current scheduling practices before booking, given the older complaints.