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[quote=Anonymous]You're likely using a larger more commercial lawn service. I'd switch to a smaller company that uses push mowers or even smaller commercial mowers. Look at who mows your neighbors' lawns. We have both kinds of companies in our neighborhood. My next door neighbor uses a company like OP's. It's a full-on assault when they come with one person on the ride on mower, two with leaf blowers and one with a trimmer. The noise is deafening, but it doesn't last long. I've timed them from arrival to departure - almost always 4-6 minutes.

The rest of my neighbors use a smaller company which is typically the owner and his son for lawn care. They take more like 20-30 minutes but actually charge less and will do custom work if requested like weeding gardens, pruning shrubs and other garden projects. The owner also plants and maintains perennial gardens and thus knows what is and isn't a weed and how plants should be cared for. The smaller company is also how you get someone that knows your particular yard and your preferences. With the larger company you may get different people each visit and a totally generic service aimed to last as short a time as possible.

My husband used to own a landscaping company and had mowing crews and landscaping crews. Mowing and blowing is low skill work anyone can be quickly trained to do and where he assigned the B-team employees who were either new or didn't have a lot of skills. If you want a better level of care you need to go with a smaller company.[/quote]

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