Wain's Irrigation

Wain's Irrigation does one thing: inground lawn sprinkler systems. Installation and service, out of 387 Pelham St in Methuen, with Wayne Walworth listed as the owner and four people on the payroll. It is an old business by the standards of this trade. The Better Business Bureau puts the Massachusetts start date at January 1990 — thirty-six years of putting irrigation in the ground around Methuen and the towns near it. Beyond sprinkler installs, the work extends to drip irrigation, garden mist systems and hydroseeding, which is the wet-spray method of establishing a new lawn from seed. The reputation picture is where a homeowner should slow down. Porch shows a 4.91 average from 28 ratings, but the page says outright that the figure is compiled from online reviews elsewhere, and not a single one of those 28 comments can actually be read — no customer's account of the work exists on any page. A number with nothing behind it is not the same as a track record, so there is no rating here. The two sources also disagree about how long the company has been going: Porch says 39 years, the BBB record says 36 from a 1990 start. It is a small gap, but ask directly rather than assume. The BBB file is not accredited and carries no letter grade, which BBB explains as simply not having enough information on the business — accreditation is voluntary and its absence says nothing either way. If you have a sprinkler system to install, open, close or repair around Methuen, this is a long-established local specialist. Because no customer commentary is readable anywhere, ask for two or three recent references in your own town, and get the scope and the annual service terms in writing before the first spring start-up.