The homeowner's job with new sod is water, and there's no way around it. Plan on watering daily, sometimes twice a day in hot weather, for the first two to three weeks, long enough that the water goes through the sod and into the soil beneath it. After that you back off to deeper, less frequent watering to pull the roots down. Stay off the lawn as much as possible for the first couple of weeks, keep pets and kids to the edges, and wait until the sod is rooted and standing about three and a half inches before the first mow. On our end, we need to know where your irrigation lines and utilities are before we till, and we need driveway space for the pallets, since sod is delivered fresh and needs to go down within a day of arriving. If you don't have irrigation, this is the moment to talk about installing it.