Landscaping in Columbus is flat clay through an inland year. Walks heave when the thaw refreezes. Tree lawns take salt. Rain on frozen ground leaves mud against the foundation. Summer humidity marks the turf and holds mosquitoes in low pockets. Older streets have mature trees over roofs and valleys. New yards often still pitch toward the house because the grade was never watched through a real storm.
A limb over a valley opens shingles and packs a gutter that ices on the next freeze. Pruning, removal, and stump grinding are three jobs. Debris left along an alley or a fence becomes cover. Spring hail leaves hanging wood that should not wait for a calm weekend. Say if the branch threatens the roof, a line, or a bed that stays wet. Stay off a porch ladder in the wind.
Sprinklers in the newer areas have to be blown out or the first hard night splits them. Startup finds those breaks. A new zone is not a crushed head. Locate lines before digging near a sump discharge or an old clay drain. Where a backflow device applies, the test belongs with the heads. Many older city lots have no system, so do not invent one in the way you describe the yard.
A small front yard on an older street and a wide new lawn are different hours of work. Leaf season under street trees is its own visit. Mulch piled on brick or siding keeps the foundation wet. If a planting dies, say who waters after the crew leaves. The salted strip by the road and the shady north side will not match. Clay that swallowed a boot in spring will bake by late summer.
Say mowing, trees, drainage, or sprinklers, and say how the last rain left the grade. Water against the basement matters more than a cosmetic edge. A heaved walk at the steps counts. Call the number on this page.