All sod removed from front lawn and mulch applied to facilitate grassless front lawn garden
I had been considering having my entire front lawn grass taken up for the last 4 years or so since being infested with Chinch bugs, which destroy the lawn, and of course, the grubs, and the non-stop weeds and crab grass, and creeping charlie.....you name it. It was costing $200+ each year for fertilizer, corn gluten, seed, ......more seed, and the time of course to weed and water and try to maintain a beautiful lawn. Finally I got fed up and this was the year. I called FSM Landscaping Inc., (stands for Full Service Maintenance) and was very quickly sent the head boss, Louis, who came to give me an estimate for the job. I was very pleased with his quote to remove 2.5 inches of the sod on my all hilly front yard which is framed with two garden beds of limestone rocks, and a newly installed custom curb all along the long, curved, 4 car long driveway. I knew this would be extra work for them, because it would require a lot of sod removal by hand against all of these edges.
The day finally came to do the job this July, on a blasting, scorching hot day, actually unfit to even be outside, let alone working hard labour like this. Louis came with his two work mates, and they started the job right away. It took about 7 hours of non-stop work. When the sod was all up, Louis went over the entire yard again with the sod lifter to soften up the top layer of soil. Then it was raked beautifully to smooth it all out. And then....with great thanks, for a nominal extra charge, they laid all 70 bags of black mulch for me (which I had intended to do). But it was so so unbearably hot out, and was going to continue to be for the coming many days,.....I couldn't imagine doing all 70 bags myself. In no time, the three men had all the mulch down and raked beautifully. If there had been a rain storm in the coming days, I would have been in big muddy trouble without the mulch.
They cleaned up beautifully, all sod was taken away, yard was immaculate.
The three men, Louis, Nathan and Paul were an absolute pleasure to work with. I am VERY pleased with the job they did for me, and now I have a gorgeous, black mulch pallet to create my new drought tolerant, sun loving, grassless front yard.
FSM Landscaping does all kinds of home maintenance work, in addition to what I had them do. You can check them out at
http://www.fsmlandscaping.ca
Thanks for a great job!
Jan Green
North York, Ont.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $700.00