Choosing a landscaping business involves several criteria. Landscape projects may cost as much as kitchen or family room remodels. Designing, developing, and maintaining your new investment involves several considerations.
A skilled contractor will evaluate all design and installation elements. Who wants to finish a job only to discover that the contractor omitted important stages or installed items improperly? Inexperienced, “budget” contractors frequently cause dissatisfaction, expensive rework, and legal action.
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Trained Designers’ Worth
Any development process begins with sifting through options and creating the ideal outside areas. Trained designers shine here. Writing down your ideas and integrating them with new ones helps you plan space, flow, aesthetic components, and material choices. Don’t choose a contractor that sketches an unintelligible napkin drawing or gesticulates when describing your yard improvement. Admit it. Concepts to reality are abstract.
We suggest employing a business that can provide color drawings you may use to see the ultimate outcome. Drawing out all thoughts on paper lets you alter your mind and allow one concept inspire another.
The customer may “try on” alternative ideas and let them simmer over time to avoid stating “I wish I had thought of that BEFORE the job was complete.” Frank Lloyd Wright said landscape design “Is the cheapest but most important part of the job.”
Subcontractors install?
Construction delays are familiar to homeowners. The general contractor blames his delays on “waiting for subcontractors.” Due to blame-shifting and misunderstanding, this delays the project and lowers installation quality.
Hire an in-house firm. That avoids subcontractor excuses. A good landscaper should handle grading, walls, patios, lighting, irrigation, plants, and fences. These firms subcontract asphalt roads and massive tree removal, which is great.
The Installation Process Is Vital to Success
Hire a landscaping business with a communicative site foreman or project manager that asks plenty of questions throughout installation. Make sure the designer stays on-site to help the installation and resolve concerns. Constant homeowner communication is essential. Lack of communication often causes rework and conflict.
Most construction projects fail due to contractor miscommunication. We involve clients, unlike other contractors. Our foremen are great communicators and interact with customers when unexpected developments arise.
Experience Matters
Check the company’s age and the designer, project manager, and foreman’s experience. Did they study landscaping and construction? Or are they inexperienced? Trusting others is the worst.
Pricey landscaping project to a pretender. Experience counts. Find it before hiring.
Contractor Insurance?
Established companies usually cover two insurance points. First, they will have enough property and worker injury insurance. Second, a well-run, safe firm never needs insurance. Oftentimes tiny “Truck and Shovel” firms or folks just starting out in the industry may not have insurance.
This is problematic because if there is an accident on your property, you and your insurance company will have to pay, not the contractor, who will likely leave and not answer their phone.
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