7 Things Your Landscaping Company Won"t Tell You
When you hire a landscaping company, the hope is that you will be able to view a brand new front yard, or a lovely garden for your backyard needs.
You hope that you are hiring reputable professionals to make your plans for your property come to pass.
However, although you might have your wishes and your assumptions, the fact is that you might be getting more than what you bargained for.
With that in mind, you need to consider some points when you are qualifying your next landscaper services company who comes to your property: - They allow the use of pesticides that are poisonous: This is a fact that is very important to know, particularly if you have pets, or children.
You might not consider that the landscaping company might treat your lawn with a pesticide or an herbicide treatment at all.
This is something that you need to know before you allow your kids to go out to play, or before you allow your dogs or cats to go out on the lawn.
Despite what landscaping services contractors say, these chemicals can cause a lot of harm to you and your loved ones.
If they are using these chemicals, then they should let you know up front! - They use cut rate shrubs and trees, with no money back guarantee: Imagine your horror when you find that your bushes, shrubs, or trees are dying, or look sparse.
Of course, the reason why you hired landscapers was to install beautiful trees, shrubs, etc.
Before you get stiffed in this way, make sure that you can get a money back guarantee if you are dissatisfied with the quality of the items that were planted.
- They add surprises in the Agreement: These surprises include hidden fees, unscheduled visits, automatic continuation of any scheduled fees, etc.
The bottom line is that you should be made aware of every single aspect of your landscaping services Agreement.
The Agreement should be absolutely transparent.
A reputable landscaping company will offer you both a transparent Agreement, and a verbal explanation of every aspect of the Agreement.
- They might use recycled or re-purposed plants or flowers: Can you imagine a landscaping company that would plant flowers, bushes, or trees that were stolen from another property? How about if the landscaping company planted items that were removed from another client, due to inferior quality? This is unethical, but this type of thing happens all of the time.
See to it that your landscapers can prove to you that they are planting items that were purchased directly from a reputable source.
- Certain plants attract certain pests: While some plants or flowers might look great on your property or along your home, these same plants are flowers can be more trouble than what they are worth! This certainly becomes a problem when it's time for you to move.
You'll have to spend a ton of money getting rid of all of the pest.
Make sure that your landscaper educates you, or warns you if you want to have a pest magnet planted on your property.
- They won't mention that is some cases a permit is required: There are some landscaping task that will require a permit from the township, such as the planting of trees for example.
However, a landscaping company might not mention it.
This benefits them because they get to charge a fee for planting the item, and if the item has to get removed, they get to charge another fee.
Follow up on your plans, and make sure that nothing requires a permit before you plant.
- They don't really have a license: There are many fly by night outfits that will steal the license number of a reputable landscaping services company for themselves.
This is done by unethical people who can't qualify for a license due to their lack of ability to pass a test, or because they are criminals.
Check with your state's licensing board to make sure that the license number that is being presented to you actually belongs to the landscaping company that you are hiring.
You hope that you are hiring reputable professionals to make your plans for your property come to pass.
However, although you might have your wishes and your assumptions, the fact is that you might be getting more than what you bargained for.
With that in mind, you need to consider some points when you are qualifying your next landscaper services company who comes to your property: - They allow the use of pesticides that are poisonous: This is a fact that is very important to know, particularly if you have pets, or children.
You might not consider that the landscaping company might treat your lawn with a pesticide or an herbicide treatment at all.
This is something that you need to know before you allow your kids to go out to play, or before you allow your dogs or cats to go out on the lawn.
Despite what landscaping services contractors say, these chemicals can cause a lot of harm to you and your loved ones.
If they are using these chemicals, then they should let you know up front! - They use cut rate shrubs and trees, with no money back guarantee: Imagine your horror when you find that your bushes, shrubs, or trees are dying, or look sparse.
Of course, the reason why you hired landscapers was to install beautiful trees, shrubs, etc.
Before you get stiffed in this way, make sure that you can get a money back guarantee if you are dissatisfied with the quality of the items that were planted.
- They add surprises in the Agreement: These surprises include hidden fees, unscheduled visits, automatic continuation of any scheduled fees, etc.
The bottom line is that you should be made aware of every single aspect of your landscaping services Agreement.
The Agreement should be absolutely transparent.
A reputable landscaping company will offer you both a transparent Agreement, and a verbal explanation of every aspect of the Agreement.
- They might use recycled or re-purposed plants or flowers: Can you imagine a landscaping company that would plant flowers, bushes, or trees that were stolen from another property? How about if the landscaping company planted items that were removed from another client, due to inferior quality? This is unethical, but this type of thing happens all of the time.
See to it that your landscapers can prove to you that they are planting items that were purchased directly from a reputable source.
- Certain plants attract certain pests: While some plants or flowers might look great on your property or along your home, these same plants are flowers can be more trouble than what they are worth! This certainly becomes a problem when it's time for you to move.
You'll have to spend a ton of money getting rid of all of the pest.
Make sure that your landscaper educates you, or warns you if you want to have a pest magnet planted on your property.
- They won't mention that is some cases a permit is required: There are some landscaping task that will require a permit from the township, such as the planting of trees for example.
However, a landscaping company might not mention it.
This benefits them because they get to charge a fee for planting the item, and if the item has to get removed, they get to charge another fee.
Follow up on your plans, and make sure that nothing requires a permit before you plant.
- They don't really have a license: There are many fly by night outfits that will steal the license number of a reputable landscaping services company for themselves.
This is done by unethical people who can't qualify for a license due to their lack of ability to pass a test, or because they are criminals.
Check with your state's licensing board to make sure that the license number that is being presented to you actually belongs to the landscaping company that you are hiring.
