Mistakes To Avoid When Hiring A Landscaping Company

Hiring a landscaping company is a great idea to refresh your outdoor space. Whether it is your residential place or a commercial one, changing the landscape can significantly impact your space’s outlook. However, many homeowners often make some common mistakes during this process, especially related to hiring a landscape company.

They often overlook some common things and hire any company they come across without researching on their own. The result is poor performance and costly damages to their property that they never wanted. Therefore, having a reliable and professional landscape company becomes necessary to offer you the services you want.

If you are thinking of hiring a landscaping company but don’t know where to begin, this blog post might help you. Continue reading to find out some of the essential tips and mistakes to avoid when looking to hire a landscaping company.

Going After The Price Only

Allowing price to be the only guiding factor can be damaging for you. Do not go after prices when hiring a landscape company, as these less costly prices can cause you more in the long run. The least expensive does not necessarily provide you with the results you want. It is better to ask for different price quotations from different companies and select the one you think is the most suitable for you. Changing the landscape of your property is a lifetime investment, and if you are not putting some budget into it and only going after cheap prices, you will not reap good results.

Hiring The Wrong Type Of Landscaper

You might think that there is only one type of landscape; however, there are different landscapes for residential and commercial spaces. They are equipped to perform different projects and have the relevant tools and machines. Hiring a commercial contractor for your residential purpose will not suit you as they have to deal with bigger landscapes that require special equipment and are usually more expensive. If you have to hire a residential landscape contractor, make sure to choose a company that provides skill sets for that purpose only.

Ignoring The Reviews And Reputation

Another guiding factor behind hiring a landscape contractor is its reputation and reviews. Ignoring these factors can make you hire the wrong landscaping company. Therefore, you must research on your own and speak to your friends or other family about a specific company’s reputation. Also, read reviews online as they can guide you about the quality of services a company offers.

Ignoring Communication Skills

A professional company has a crew available with excellent communication skills. It is also important for you to hire such a company willing to communicate with you throughout every step of your landscape process and listen to your queries and demands. Lack of communication can cause confusion as you may be unsure of where your project is heading.

Hiring An Unlicensed Company

You might be putting a lot of budget into having a company change the landscape of your commercial or residential area. If the company is not licensed or insured, it can cause great damage to your property or employees if any unforeseen situation occurs. Therefore, it is necessary to hire an insured and licensed company.

Final Words

Hiring a landscaping company requires you to research well before you finalize a deal with anyone. A good company will have a strong social media presence, and people will be willing to give good reviews of their services. Moreover, a professional company will have better customer service and return calls on time. Also, a professional landscape company will follow all the safety standards to make sure their customers are happy and satisfied with their services.

About BurlOak Landscaping

BurlOak Landscaping offers professional landscape design services. From design to installation, we’re to help you. When you choose Burloak, the boss is on-site every day – which means making a change is as easy as a conversation in your backyard. Create a yard the whole family can enjoy with our award-winning landscape designs. From gorgeous decks for BBQing to mood-setting landscape lighting, our expert team can design the perfect backyard for you to enjoy. With years of experience designing gorgeous yards throughout Ontario, we can help you choose the landscape features best suited to your lifestyle.

Jeanette Chan

2023-07-20

We hired another landscaping company in Feb to start our project in June. That company bailed the last minute and left me hanging in the middle of the busy summer season. I called 30 companies, majority of them did not even bother to return my calls. Only a 2 came and gave me a quote. Everyone else were busy and booked until end of August ect. I called Bur-Oak and Mark immediately replied to my email and came out gave me a quote. He was very reasonable and was trying very hard to redo the quotes several times to fit my budget. Burl-Oak Landscaping is an amazing and well run company. The whole team was always on time, professional and did exactly what they promised and more. Strongly recommend this group of hard working team members. The whole team, Mark the business manager, the owner Louya, Tony and Dan the foremen. I cannot say enough good things about this dynamic team. Thank you gentlemen. I am glad I found you and I look forward to continue working with you in the future.

Savneet Uppal

2023-07-17

Excellent experience from start to finish and would highly recommend the team to everyone. Mark and the team helped us completely transform our backyard into a highly functional part of our home. Mark in particular went above and beyond time and time again - from coming up with a solution to a logistical problem (my backyard was difficult to access), and providing a very fair price for the job, to collaborating with us on design. The best customer service and experience that I have had with any contractor. Dan and Tony helped the team execute and complete the job in a very timely and efficient manner.

kmanjetsfan

2023-06-30

Great quality of work as well.as.communication before,.during, and after the work was done. Prices were more than fair & competitive. Timeliness of booking and doing the job exceeded expectations. Kudos to Mark, Dan, and the team.

Neil K

2023-06-27

Burl-Oak Landscaping did my families place in Mississauga. They did such a phenomenal job, we asked them to do our driveway and side of the house in Hamilton. They used permeable interlocking so our tree was safe, and it has held up for a few years (unlike our neighbours concrete or asphalt drives). We liked their work so much, we had them back this past year to update our back yard with landscaping and a new patio.

CD DA

2021-09-01

We are returning customers of Burl-Oak Landscaping. We had our front steps and retaining wall completed in 2019 and were happy with their work. We just had them back to build a stone backyard patio with steps and plants. The patio looks great and we are excited to use it for the remainder of the summer. As soon as we reached out, Mark came to hear our ideas and gave us a quote with some suggestions of his own for improvement. Louay, Tony, and the team arrived promptly and completed our project in a timely manner with great professionalism. We were glad to have them back so that they could bring our backyard vision to life.

g markie

2021-06-08

Greg Elliott

2021-03-29

We had Burl-Oak landscaping complete a stone driveway and a stone patio for us in our rear yard. Amazing service from start to finish. They came with a large crew who completed the job professionally and quickly. We get a lot of compliments on the work. I fully recommend!