Carefree Systems provides professional commercial irrigation installation, repair, and maintenance for businesses, HOAs, municipalities, and large properties across Chicagoland.
We help protect your landscaping investment, control water costs, and ensure reliable system performance — season after season.
If your property requires reliable, scalable irrigation — we can manage it.
• A properly designed system is critical for large properties.
Our commercial installations include:
✔ Site evaluation & system design
✔ Zoned water efficiency planning
✔ Smart controller integration
✔ Backflow (RPZ) coordination
✔ Professional trenching & clean installation
• We design systems for coverage, efficiency, and long-term durability.
• Most commercial properties benefit from ongoing service to prevent costly failures.
Our maintenance programs include:
✔ Spring system start-ups
✔ Seasonal inspections
✔ Coverage adjustments
✔ Leak detection & valve repair
✔ Controller programming updates
✔ Fall winterization & blow-outs
• Preventative maintenance reduces water waste and emergency repairs.
• We service and repair all major commercial irrigation brands.
Common repairs include:
✔ Broken main lines
✔ Faulty valves
✔ Controller failures
✔ Zone pressure issues
✔ Coverage inconsistencies
✔ System expansions & retrofits
• Fast response helps minimize landscape damage and downtime.
• Water costs and conservation matter — especially for large properties.
We help commercial clients:
✔ Upgrade to smart controllers
✔ Improve zone efficiency
✔ Reduce overspray & runoff
✔ Identify high-consumption areas
✔ Improve overall system performance
• Efficiency saves money and supports sustainability goals.
Splash Pad Project – McCollum Park (Downers Grove)
• Carefree Systems completed a municipal splash pad project at McCollum Park in Downers Grove.
• The installation includes 28 spray elements distributed across three concrete splash pads.
• The system is supported by a 3,000-gallon concrete holding tank for water storage.
• Mechanical system components include:
+ 5 HP feature pump
+ 1 HP filter pump
+ Chlorinator
+ Ultraviolet (UV) light system
+ Water heater
• A level-transducer controlled domestic water line automatically refills the holding tank when water levels drop.
• This infrastructure ensures consistent water circulation, filtration, sanitation, and temperature control for safe splash pad operation.
Elk Grove Technology Park – Irrigation System Summary
• Location: Elk Grove Technology Park, Elk Grove Village, IL (near O'Hare International Airport)
• Project Type: Large-scale irrigation system serving a major industrial technology park
• Purpose: Supports landscaping for a high-scale industrial campus designed to promote technology and innovation near Chicagoland suburbs
System Specifications
• Irrigation System: Watertronics system with Baseline 2-wire control system
• Water Source: Domestic water supply
• Backflow Protection: 6" backflow preventer installed
• Pumping System: Two 15 HP Watertronics booster pumps
• Mainline Infrastructure: 4" and 6" mainline piping
• Coverage: Over 5,000 Hunter sprinkler heads installed across the property
• System Design: Designed by FRS (Fountainhead Regional Services)
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – Columbarium Section 8 Expansion (Elwood, IL) Summary
• Location: Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IL
• Project: Columbarium Section 8 expansion for the national cemetery
• Design Authority: New section designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Design Authority: New section designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Irrigation System Work
• Carefree Systems expanded the existing Rain Bird 2-wire irrigation system
• Installed Rain Bird 8005 rotor sprinkler heads
• Installed Rain Bird PRS spray heads
• Added new mainline piping with ductile iron fittings
• Installed Rain Bird PEBSB valves
Irrigation System Work
• Irrigation design completed by Aqua Engineering
Will County Courthouse – Irrigation System (Joliet, IL) Summary
• Location: Will County Courthouse, Joliet, IL
• Project: Irrigation system installation for the new state-of-the-art courthouse building adjacent to the original courthouse
Irrigation System Installation
• Installed Rain Bird drip line irrigation system at ground level
• Installed Rain Bird pressure-regulated spray irrigation for the 3rd and 5th floor landscaping areas
Water Management System
• Integrated with a Watertronics Sky Harvester rainwater collection system
• System includes a Progressive Pumps ozone generator to purify collected rainwater before irrigation use
• Rainwater purification process:
+ Rainwater pumped into ozone generator chambers
+ Water mixed with ozone (O₃) to disinfect
+ Treated water returned to the underground detention system
+ Process removes harmful bacteria and viruses before irrigation
System Infrastructure
• Complex pumping system with two pumps inside a 17-foot wet well
• Wet well connected to an underground detention system used for rainwater collection and treatment
System Design
• Irrigation system designed by Landtech
Wanda Vista Hotel – Irrigation System (Chicago, IL) Summary
• Location: Wanda Vista Hotel, Chicago, IL
• Building: 101-story high-rise building in downtown Chicago
Irrigation Installation
• Carefree Irrigation installed a Hunter drip line irrigation system for multiple landscaped terrace areas
Installation Areas
• Ground-level planters
• 3rd-floor terrace
• 10th-floor terrace
• 11th-floor terrace
• 47th-floor terrace
• 71st-floor terrace
System Features
• Irrigation system operates using a rainwater harvesting system
• Built using Hunter irrigation products
System Design
• Irrigation design completed by FRS (Fountainhead Regional Services)
Carefree Systems installs, repairs and maintains commercial lawn sprinkler systems in:
New Lenox • Mokena • Frankfort • Lockport • Joliet • Homer Glen • Tinley Park • Orland Park • Lemont • Plainfield • Naperville • Downers Grove • Wheaton • Hinsdale • Chicago • & More Surrouding Suburbs!