from $420
Drip irrigation design & install
Pressure-compensating dripline sized to plant water needs. 1, 2, and 4 GPH emitters spaced for canopy at maturity, not at planting day.
Las Vegas, NV — NSCB C-10 #0059069A
Every drop where you want it. Thirty-seven years of it.
Licensed irrigation contracting in the Las Vegas valley since 1989. Drip, spray, valves, controllers, and SNWA Water Smart conversions. Single-family residential — owner answers the phone.
Marcelo Industries Ltd
Marcelo Industries Ltd
Marcelo Industries Ltd
About Marcelo Industries
One trade, one valley, one license, since 1989.
Marcelo Industries opened in 1989 — a different Las Vegas. Population was under 700,000. The dry-side suburbs west of the Strip were still scrub. The work back then was sprinkler systems, valves, and timers — and the work today is mostly drip retrofits and water-smart conversions, because that is where Las Vegas has gone.
What hasn't changed: a Nevada State Contractors Board C-10 license that has stayed active under the same name, single-family residential only, and the same phone number ringing to the owner. Marcelo Alberto Mateos is the qualified individual on the license and the person who shows up to the curb.
An irrigation system is a thousand small decisions about pressure, flow, and where you want each gallon to land.
— Marcelo Alberto Mateos, owner + NSCB qualified individual
Credentials — verify before you hire
C-10 #0059069A. Look it up.
Most yard guys in Vegas aren't licensed. Here's the number, the classification, and where to verify it yourself.
Illustrative rendering — verify the live record on the Nevada State Contractors Board public license search.
Classification
C-10
Landscape Contracting — the NSCB classification that covers irrigation, planting, drainage, and low-voltage lighting on residential property.
License number
#0059069A
Active under Marcelo Alberto Mateos, qualified individual. Predecessor license #0059069 carried the same name; the "A" suffix is the renewal.
Bond
$2,000
Surety bond on file with the Nevada State Contractors Board. Recommended verification before any contractor begins work.
Verify the license
Search license number 0059069A on the NSCB public record at nvcontractorsboard.com. The board confirms status, classification, bond, and the qualified individual on the license.
What we do — Las Vegas valley
The work, plainly.
Irrigation is the trade. Drainage and low-voltage lighting are the natural extensions a C-10 license covers.
- from $1,800
Spray-to-drip conversion (SNWA rebate)
Turf out, drip in, paperwork filed. SNWA Water Smart rebate pays up to $3/sqft, plus a $2 LVVWD adder in valley water-district zones.
- from $185
Valve & controller replacement
Anti-siphon, station, master shut-off. Hunter and Rain Bird controllers re-programmed on a Mojave calendar — three schedules for April through October.
- from $140
Leak diagnosis & line repair
Wet patches that don't dry, main-line leaks under decorative rock, branch-line cuts from previous landscaping. We trace it, splice it, and re-pressure-test the manifold.
- from $220
Smart controller programming
ET-based scheduling on Hunter Hydrawise, Rain Bird ESP-TM2, or Rachio 3. Water budget set by zone, weather offset, and seasonal multiplier — not a static clock.
- from $320
Drainage + low-voltage lighting
Decorative rock that finally drains in monsoon. Path lights and uplights wired to a transformer the next homeowner can actually find.
SNWA Water Smart — the case for converting
Every drop where you want it.
Three real-shape Las Vegas conversions and what the rebate math actually looks like. Numbers from the SNWA program and an irrigation audit at the curb.
Summerlin — front yard
Rectangular turf strip, two trees retained, stucco frontage
- Yard size
- 900 sqft
- Rebate at $5/sqft
- $4,500
- Water — before
- ~49.5K gal / yr
- Water — after
- ~16.2K gal / yr
- Water saved per year
- ~33.3K gal
Pulled 900 sqft of turf, regraded to drain to the curb, dropped pressure-compensating dripline at 12-inch spacing under the canopy of the retained trees, planted 14 shrubs from the SNWA-approved list, decorative rock cap.
Spring Valley — full front
L-shaped corner lot, no retained turf, mid-century house
- Yard size
- 1,450 sqft
- Rebate at $5/sqft
- $7,250
- Water — before
- ~79.8K gal / yr
- Water — after
- ~23.2K gal / yr
- Water saved per year
- ~56.5K gal
Full turf-out + xeriscape conversion. Three drip zones — high-water (annuals), medium-water (shrubs), low-water (cacti + agave). New anti-siphon valve at the manifold. Hunter Hydrawise controller programmed on a Mojave ET calendar.
Henderson — backyard
Backyard turf rectangle, pool retained, mature ash tree at corner
- Yard size
- 680 sqft
- Rebate at $5/sqft
- $3,400
- Water — before
- ~37.4K gal / yr
- Water — after
- ~13.6K gal / yr
- Water saved per year
- ~23.8K gal
Turf out, decomposed-rock seating area in, dripline run to the ash and four new desert specimens. Pool plumbing and existing concrete left alone. Owner kept the rebate.
The math
The SNWA Water Smart Landscapes Rebate currently pays $3.00 / sqft for the first 10,000 sqft converted from turf to drip-irrigated landscape, with a $2.00 / sqft adder for Las Vegas Valley Water District customers — a total of up to $5.00 / sqft on the typical residential conversion. Program rules require a pre-conversion inspection, drip-only irrigation with emitters rated ≤20 GPH, and at least 50% living vegetation at maturity. We design to the spec and file the paperwork.
Water-use numbers above are typical Mojave residential averages — actual savings depend on plant selection, controller schedule, and household use. Rebate amounts and program terms set by SNWA / LVVWD and subject to change.
How it works
Site visit, written estimate, scheduled fix.
- 01
Call
Tell us what you are seeing — wet spot, dry zone, dead controller, or a turf yard you want converted. Two minutes is enough.
- 02
Site visit
We walk the system, pressure-test the manifold, count emitters per zone, and listen for hisses at the backflow. No charge to look.
- 03
Written estimate
Itemized — parts, labor, rebate offset where it applies. Nothing scoped after the fact.
- 04
Scheduled work
Most repairs land in the same week. Conversions schedule after the SNWA pre-conversion inspection.
- 05
Walkthrough + invoice
Every zone runs while we are still standing in the yard. Controller schedule written on a card on the wall.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
Since 1989
Thirty-seven years in one valley.
Las Vegas in 1989 was a smaller city than it is today. The irrigation work changed with it.
1989
Vegas — ~700K (metro)
The Strip was Mirage-era — the volcano had just opened. West of I-15 was still scrub. Sprinkler-and-timer yards were the default install.
Marcelo Industries opens. NSCB C-10 license issued. Sprinkler systems and clock-timer controllers are the daily work.
Las Vegas — 1989
2000
Vegas — ~1.4M (metro)
Summerlin and Henderson are filling in. Bellagio, Venetian, and Paris are open on the Strip. Front-yard fescue is still common.
Route expands across the valley. Two-truck operation. Single-family residential focus locks in — no commercial, no HOAs.
Las Vegas — 2000
2010
Vegas — ~1.95M (metro)
Drought decade begins. Lake Mead drops past the bathtub ring. SNWA conservation rebate scales up. Turf-to-drip becomes the conversation.
Specialty pivots to water-smart conversions. Drip-emitter design and SNWA-spec install replaces most sprinkler work.
Las Vegas — 2010
2020
Vegas — ~2.27M (metro)
Nevada AB 356 mandates removal of non-functional grass in commercial and HOA properties by 2027. Residential conversions accelerate.
SNWA Find-a-Landscaper certification on file. Smart-controller programming on ET schedules becomes a standard line item.
Las Vegas — 2020
2026
Vegas — ~2.34M (metro)
Lake Mead still in shortage. Rebate program steady at $3 / sqft base + $2 / sqft LVVWD adder. Drip is the default residential standard.
37 years. Same name on the license, same phone number, same single-family residential scope. Marcelo Alberto Mateos still answers the phone.
Las Vegas — 2026
Population context above is Las Vegas metro estimates; treat as background, not the point. The point is one license, same name, same valley, since 1989.
Reviews — Las Vegas valley
Quiet work, paraphrased from public reviews.
Backyard irrigation upgrade — three hours, on the number quoted, and the existing planting beds were treated with the kind of care a homeowner notices.
Called about a hissing valve and got a callback inside an hour. Diagnosis at the curb in five minutes. Recommended originally by the LVVWD.
- Nextdoor
Efficient, fairly priced, and easy to work with. Glad he is still in the valley after this many years.
Drip retrofit on a front yard turf conversion. He filed the SNWA paperwork and the rebate came through clean. Yard looks better and the water bill is half.
Called about a wet patch we'd had two other contractors look at. He traced it to a cracked anti-siphon in twenty minutes. Replaced the same afternoon.
Recent work — Las Vegas valley
Drip, spray, rock, and the parts in between.
Summerlin — front-yard drip retrofit on a stucco property 
Spring Valley — full turf-to-xeriscape conversion 
Las Vegas — decorative rock + drip border install 
Henderson — zone test after valve replacement 
Boulder City — planting bed refresh with dripline 
North Las Vegas — agave detail on a low-water property 
Summerlin — xeriscape conversion with palms retained 
Paradise — final pop-up zone before conversion 
Las Vegas — cactus + gravel detail after install 
Henderson — spray-zone check on a partial conversion
Honest pricing
Site visits from$0to look
No charge to come look at an irrigation issue or scope a conversion. Most repair calls quote between $140 and $320; conversion projects depend on square footage and rebate offsets. Senior + military are quoted at a discount.
Single-family residential only. Las Vegas valley + Pahrump. Most repairs scheduled same week.
Call (702) 339-4631Questions — Marcelo Industries
Plain answers, no runaround.
NSCB C-10 #0059069A — Active. Search the number at nvcontractorsboard.com or call the Nevada State Contractors Board directly. Same name, same number since the original license issue.
Call us — owner answers
— Marcelo Industries Ltd
If we are on a job we will call back same day. Las Vegas valley + Pahrump.