I'm Steve, and I provide professional lawn mowing services in Perth Western Australia.
I've done so since 2002.
Depending on the lawn type, the location (sun / shade), quality of lawn health, frequency of mowing, will determine whether a cylinder or rotary lawn mower will be used on the property.
As an example, you may have a buffalo lawn growing in shade and want it cut low with a cylinder mower. However this is the worst thing possible for this lawn type in this growing environment. For the best possible health of the lawn, a rotary mower cutting at high heights would be needed for the greatest lawn health for buffalo growing in shade.
Always in all lawn situations, the lawn and the environment it is growing in will be assessed at the job and the best lawn mowing service adapted to provide for the best ongoing lawn health.
A lawn edger is used on most lawns depending on the lawn edges involved. If a lawn blade edger is not suitable to the job then a line trimmer may be used to tidy the lawn edges.
All lawn edges are cleaned up with the line trimmer for a professional clean finish.
In most instances, both prior to lawn mowing commencing and after the job is completed, all surrounding paths are blown clean. On most lawns, where suitable, paths are blown clean twice to ensure the cleanest finish possible to all work.
And unlike some cowboys around town, I do not treat the street in front of your home as a trash can for leftover lawn debris and clippings. While it is impossible to stop some clippings from going onto a road, that is a big difference from deliberately blowing as much rubbish as possible onto the road as some others do. Just as your paths will be left clean around your home, so too will the street in front of your home remain clean once my work is completed.
My lawn mowers are washed clean each day after use, once at minimum, and sometimes twice or multiple times per day depending on the lawns being serviced on any given day. I try my utmost to have appropriately clean equipment each day to ensure the best quality of service for the lawns I take care of. Ofttimes it's the little things that we never see or even consider which differentiate between the values and priorities and responsibleness of different service providers.
The Lawn Mowing Services I Provide
The only service provided by myself and my business is lawn mowing. Nothing else.
I can refer specialised gardening services if you're wanting gardening work done.
If you would like lawn care advice to overcome problems or to help make your lawn healthier, I have that knowledge and will gladly assist. No problems.
However, through the process of so many years in the lawn mowing and garden service industry, I have provided many different complementary services throughout this time. And as the years have rolled past these services have been tried, evaluated, changed, and eventually either removed or retained in my business due to how they've performed and the costs associated with providing each service when compared to the inconvenience and expense of maintaining all such surplus equipment, often when it was not being used in over 99% of my daily workload.
From 2008 until today my business has streamlined to exclusively provide lawn mowing services.
The White Van Man
For over a decade I drove a big Aussie ute while towing a hulking enormous lawn mowing trailer behind me as I went about my daily work. It seemed 'normal' that this was just the way a lawn mowing contractor worked. The trailer contained a lot of wasted space that wasn't used, which would oftentimes be found to be a perfect storage location for so much of my equipment that I never really used. I also carried around a lot of gardening tools and equipment every day, everywhere I went, when I could go weeks or longer before ever using a single tool.
My lawn mowing equipment was exposed to all extremes of weather, ruining this expensive gear at speed, and oftentimes it was impossible to start some machines in wet weather, and the trailer was completely insecure, leading to the theft of multiple pieces of equipment. As Perth continued to become even more high density and as streets continued to become congested, the trailer and big ute was becoming a nightmare, and I often found myself having great difficulty parking.
During a business overhaul in about 2012, I removed all unused equipment that I used to carry around each day, and narrowed down my necessary equipment to only include the tools of the trade I used every day. I bought a van and designed and built out the back and stored all of my machinery securely in the back. All of my machines were now safe from theft and weather damage, my business was even more highly efficient, I was now able to park absolutely anywhere at all, and driving around the busy congested city instantly became so much easier.
For so many years now I have had the most efficient and useful vehicle setup which remains perfectly suited to the lawn mowing industry, and which is far superior to the old trailer setups in every way. And this is how you will find me outside your property, the white van man, ramp and road cones at the back. A trailblazer in the industry.
And what exactly can fit into this unassuming white van?
- 1 x lawn mowing man
- 1 x commercial cylinder mower
- 2 x commercial rotary mowers
- 1 x extra commercial rotary mower (3 rotary mowers when required)
- 1 x commercial lawn edger
- 1 x commercial cordless line trimmer
- 1 x cordless blower
- other basic tools and spares to see me through 100% of the work I do each day
