If you think about it, the first hot day of the year sneaks up on you, right? One minute, it’s all slush and chilly mornings, and the next, the lawn looks like a jungle, the pool is super filthy, and the patio has seen better days. During these warm days, you want to do what you can to extend the living space to outside, right? You probably want to boost property value too, right? You want to be comfortable outside, you want it to look grand, and yeah, chances are, you’ll need some help, right?
Well, by the time most homeowners realize the season is creeping up, every must-have professional is already booked solid. It’s not even just that, prices go up, wait times get ridiculous, and anyone lucky enough to find an available service ends up paying extra for the privilege. But if these professionals are so high in demand (and price) once the summer hits, what can you even do? Well, it’s about booking early.
In all honestly, it’s the pros who keep summer running smoothly are the same ones who become impossible to track down once the heat hits.
Your Local Landscaper
So what’s the summer dream? Well, it’s having a perfectly manicured yard, lush and green, like something straight out of a magazine. Now who wouldn’t want something as dreamy as that, right? But what’s the reality here? Well, unless you’re doing the work yourself (which is totally optional if you have the time and materials) you can probably expect an overgrown mess of grass, weeds taking over, and a flower bed that looks more like a wild jungle.
You probably already know this, but a professional landscaper makes such a massive difference since they’re doing more than just adding plants to the lawn. They’re usually fertilizing it, aerating it, and so much more. Sometimes they get booked by late spring, so you need to make sure you get one in advance.
Got a Pool? Then You Need a Pool Cleaner
Okay, sure you can DIY this, but it’s very tricky, and a lot of chemistry is involved too. So for a lot of pool owners, understandably feel better about hiring a professional who can do it the right way. But overall, there’s nothing that ruins a perfect summer day faster than pulling back the pool cover to find murky water, floating leaves, and an unidentified “something” lurking at the bottom.
What a lot of people get wrong about owning a pool would have to be the fact that they think pool maintenance is a once-and-done job, but it’s not. Keeping the pool clean and the chemicals in the water balanced it’s surprisingly challenging. That’s exactly why it’s a good idea to have professional pool cleaning services come by regularly in the summer since this saves the hassle of constant testing and guesswork.
Lawn Care Professional
So a landscaper was mentioned earlier, but what about someone to just cut the grass and weeds? As everyone knows, grass doesn’t care about schedules, it just keeps growing. Basically, one missed the cut, and suddenly the yard looks abandoned (if you live in an HOA you can expect some serious fines).
But a reliable lawn care professional ensures the job gets done on time, every time, so there’s no last-minute panic over finding someone to tame the backyard jungle. Sure, you can do this yourself, but you need to do this weekly, do you have time and the ability to do this every week?