Landscaping in Detroit is small lots, clay, and a winter that heaves whatever you paved. Walks lift. Stoops crack. Parkway grass burns where salt and sand sat through the cold. Mature trees reach over porch roofs and drop limbs when spring wind follows the thaw. Grade that pitches toward a basement puts every hard rain against the wall. The lot is tight, and the error shows.
A heavy limb over a valley opens shingles and packs a gutter that later ices. Pruning, removal, and stump grinding are three different jobs. Debris left in the alley becomes cover. Say if the wood threatens the house, a line, or the yard. Stay off wet branches over a porch roof. Close houses mean a falling limb is never only your roof.
Where a sprinkler system exists, it has to be blown out before a hard freeze or the heads split. Spring startup is when those breaks show. A new zone is not a repair. Lines should be located before anyone digs near old supply pipe or a clay drain. If a backflow device applies on your block, the test belongs with the heads.
Clay stays soft late and bakes hard by late summer. Leaf cleanup under street trees is its own job. Mulch piled on brick or siding holds water at the foundation. If a new plant dies, say who waters after the crew leaves. The salted strip by the road is a different repair from a shady side yard.
Say mowing, trees, drainage, or sprinklers, and say how the thaw left the grade. A walk heaved up at the steps is not a cosmetic visit. Water sitting against the basement wall after a rain is a reason to call before the next storm. Say whether the tree lawn or the backyard grade is the part that fails. Call the number on this page.