Hedge trimming and debris cleanup
Hedges cut back, and debris cleaned up.
Pine straw is most of the work. These are the two other jobs, and either is cheapest on a straw visit already coming to your address.
Hedge trimming
Shrubs along the front of the house, a hedge run down the side, the boxwoods that have gotten away from you over the summer. They are cut back to shape, and what happens to the clippings is settled with you before anything is cut.
Hedge work is priced on the call. A row somebody has kept up and a row nobody has touched in two years take different amounts of time. Say how many bushes, how tall they stand and roughly when they were last cut, and it is priced on that call.
If yours is one long run rather than separate bushes, count it in sections about as wide as your arms can reach, which is roughly what a single bush is. Six paces of hedge is about four of those. You do not have to get it exactly right; the count is agreed with you before anything starts, and that count is what you pay on.
Hedges are cheapest on a pine straw visit already coming to you, because you pay for one trip out instead of two. Close to Glennville, hedges on their own are fine; further out, ask, and you get a straight yes or no.
Check how far out you are
Debris cleanup
Limbs down after a storm, a pile of brush behind the shed, the beds full of last year's leaves. Send a photo of what it is, and the answer is whether it can go on the trailer, and what that costs.
There is no set price for this one. It is priced from the photo, or from roughly how big the pile is.
How a hedge job is priced
Pine straw is priced by the bale because a bale is a bale. Hedge work is not, and this is the honest reason why.
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The row gets looked at first
A photograph on your phone is usually enough. What matters in it is how far past its shape the growth has gone. That is the difference between an afternoon and a day.
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The count is agreed out loud
How many bushes, and which ones. A corner nobody mentioned is the usual way a hedge quote goes wrong, so it gets counted with you before the number is given rather than after.
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The number holds
Once it is given it does not move on the day. If the row turns out to be worse than the photograph showed, that is a conversation before anything starts, not a line added at the end.
The cheapest way to buy it
On a pine straw visit already coming to your address. The drive is the expensive part of a small job, and adding the hedges to a trip already being made removes it entirely. Say so when you book the straw, not afterwards.
Things people ask
- Why is there no price on this page?
- Because hedge work cannot be priced from a description. A row somebody has kept trimmed every year and a row nobody has touched since two summers ago are the same number of bushes and a completely different day. It is priced once the row has been seen, on a photograph or in person, and the number does not move afterwards.
- What makes hedge work cheapest?
- Putting it on a pine straw visit that is already coming to your address. That is one trip out instead of two, and the trip is the part of a small job that costs the most. Booking hedges on their own is possible; it just will not be the cheapest way to buy them.
- What should I have ready when I call?
- Three things, and rough answers are fine. How many bushes. Roughly how tall they stand now. When they were last cut. A photograph of the row answers all three at once, and prices it faster.
- Do the clippings get taken away?
- Ask when you call. What happens to the clippings is settled with you before anything is cut, along with the count.
- What counts as debris cleanup?
- Limbs down after a storm, a brush pile behind the shed, beds full of last year's leaves. Send a photograph and you get a straight answer either way.
- Is there anything that is not taken on?
- Yes. Building material, old fencing, tires, appliances and anything a landfill charges by weight for are a different trade and a different set of fees, and saying otherwise on the phone would waste a day at both ends.
- Can hedges and straw happen on the same day?
- That is the usual way and it is the right order too: the hedges are cut back first, then the straw goes in underneath. Doing it the other way round means raking cut material out of fresh straw.
While the truck is there
- Pine straw, delivered and spread: the main work, and the visit these two jobs ride on.
- How much straw the beds under those hedges take: measured without a tape measure.
- Where the truck goes: the drive time to your town, and whether it carries a trip charge.