Communal gardens
Where our homes have a shared or communal garden or lawn area, we may provide a grounds maintenance service. You pay for this service through a weekly/monthly service charge. We carry out regular visits throughout the year.
Below, we outline our services and their frequencies per area:
- Maintenance of communal grassed areas which involves controlling excessive growth by cutting grass
- We use a combination of ride on and pedestrian rotary mowers which cut and drop the grass back into the lawned areas, this is known as mulching
- Collection off the grass is on an exceptional case by case basis, and isn’t routinely performed as the cost would increase significantly
- It includes strimming around obstacles, fence lines, path edges or areas where the mowers cannot reach
- Maintaining the shape and balance of communal hedges and shrubs which consists of controlling plant growth by a combination of pruning and trimming
- We use a combination of petrol hedge cutters during these activities
It also includes:
- Removing litter and controlling weeds
- Using a knapsack sprayer to spot, treat or remove by hand tall or inaccessible weeds
- Litter picking will be carried out on every visit
- Will consist of removing litter from communal areas
- Includes leaf removal
- Weed/Moss treatment will be carried out when required (please see below schedule or the contract area)
- Scheduled when the spraying conditions are optimal ideally with dry weather with little wind
- Weed/Moss treatment will reduce any H&S risk of slipping
- Will also improve the visual appearance of your estate
- Hand weeding will be carried out in communal shrub beds if the conditions don't allow a sprayer to be used
- Hand weeding will also include removal of any self-set saplings and older taller weeds
- This service is provided to our sheltered housing and over 55s schemes
- Will include the proactive gritting and the removal of snow from paths
Task | Total |
| Grass cutting | 14 |
| Hedge/Shrub pruning | 2 |
| Litter picking | 14 |
| Spot treatment for shrub beds | 14 |
| Hand weeding beds | 6 |
| Weed and Moss treatment (Spot spraying Edgings) | 6 |
| Weed and Moss treatment (Blanket Spraying Paved Areas) | 6 |
