AC Yard Services

Our Summer Plans

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Maintaining a perfect yard can be pretty hectic and can take up much of your free summer time. From edging to weeding, mulching, lawn aeration and more, there are a whole host of activities you need to take care of before your yard finally looks like how you envisioned it. And then there’s regular upkeep like mowing!

Our Summer Plans services

However, with AC Yard Services, you don’t have to worry about your yard anymore. You can easily pass on this responsibility to our highly experienced, professional team and spend more of your precious and too-short summer time with your family.

Seasonal Plans For You

We’ve designed our plans to address specific landscaping and maintenance needs for each of Maine’s four seasons. To keep your yard healthy and attractive in the summer, there are certain chores that should be done in the spring and fall. Our summer plans incorporate these tasks alongside the work that should be done throughout the summer, such as mowing.

Our plans were designed to take into account that people’s needs vary depending on factors like the size of your yard, your schedule and your own interest in gardening and landscaping. That’s why we offer a variety of plans for you to choose from, with each incorporating certain essential chores to keep your yard looking its best year-round.

Plan 1 

Spring Clean-upMowing Fall Clean-up

 

Plan 2 

Spring Clean-upWeeding Fall Clean-up
EdgingShrub Pruning
Mulching Mowing 

 

Plan 3 

Spring Clean-upWeeding Over-seeding 
Lawn DethatchingShrub PruningFall Clean-up
EdgingMowing 
Mulching Lawn Aeration

If none of these plans is quite what you’re looking for, give us a call to talk through what we can do for you.

Taking Care of Your Summer Chores

In the summer, your lawn and property are at their peak beauty. To help keep them that way year after year, proper mowing, pruning and other work should be done on a regular basis. Staying on top of such work keeps plants healthy and encourages good growth of your lawn.

With a warm weather-focused plan from AC Yard Services, you don’t have to worry about making time for every chore that needs to be done to keep your yard and gardens healthy. Our professional staff makes sure your lawn gets the personal attention it deserves and ensures the needs of your property are taken care of just as you want them to be.

Get In Touch

If you’d like to learn more about our summer service plans, please get in touch. We’re here to answer any questions you may have. Contact us at (207) 712-5554 to talk to our team.

Lawn Dethatching vs. Aeration: What’s the Difference?

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Restoring your lawn after a cold, snowy winter can be a challenging task. From clean-up to planting to maintenance, proper lawn care in the spring consists of a long list of responsibilities.

To give your lawn the care and treatment it deserves after a freezing Maine winter, dethatching and aerating are two of the best things you can do. Depending on the situation, your lawn may only need either aeration or dethatching. In some cases, your lawn might need both.

Lawn Dethatching vs. Aeration: What’s the Difference?

Dethatching and Aeration

Both dethatching and aeration are treatments that improve the flow of nutrients to the roots of your lawn. However, they do so by fixing different issues with your lawn.

Dethatching is a process that removes excess thatch – the tangled, matted areas – from your lawn so that nutrients, air, and water can reach the soil. In other words, dethatching is a powerful, deep lawn raking.

Aeration is an efficient method of breaking and treating the soil so that the lawn and the soil under it can breathe. The lawn patches that have constant foot traffic require lawn aeration more frequently than more out-of-the-way areas do.

Although both treatments are used for different issues, the results achieved are quite similar.

When to aerate and dethatch?

There are several ways you can determine if your lawn needs to be dethatched, aerated or both.

Lawn dethatching should be done if your lawn has grown over 1.5 inches tall. It is also helpful for addressing the following conditions:

  • Invading weeds
  • Spongy ground
  • Lawn that is springy to the touch
  • Thinning grass
  • Dry spots
  • Fading color
  • Insects and fungal diseases

Lawn aeration is helpful for addressing the following conditions:

  • Hard soil
  • Thinning grass
  • Brown patches
  • Improper drains
  • Invading weeds
  • Yellow grass, slow growth
  • Stressed shrubs

If you are both dethatching and aerating your lawn, we recommend that you dethatch first to remove debris, dead grass and other organic matter. Once your lawn has been dethatched it makes aeration much easier.

Get in touch with us

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at (207) 712-5554. Our team of experts at AC Yard Services are here to guide you and help take care of your lawn dethatching and aeration needs.

End of Summer Yard Maintenance

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End of Summer Yard Maintenance

Have you started thinking about packing your patio furniture and doing some end-of-summer yard maintenance? With fall on the horizon, this is the best time to rejuvenate your yard and have it prepared for the season to follow.

As lawn care professionals, we wanted to give you some insights on how you can prepare your yard for the colder months ahead:

Mowing Your Lawn

It is important to keep mowing your lawn towards the end of the summer, even if the grass is no longer growing at a rapid pace. With temperatures dropping, do not forget to adjust your watering schedule.

Prepare with Care

Before fall begins, trim branches and bushes that look unhealthy. It helps them grow back stronger next year and you would have less leaves to take care of as the weather turns colder.

Add a Good Layer of Mulch

Adding a fresh layer of mulch makes your yard look neat and it helps suppress the growth of weeds. Mulching also keeps water and nutrients close to plant roots providing the roots with the essentials they need to thrive throughout fall.

Aeration is Important

The summer sun makes the soil hard and compact making it difficult for grass roots to absorb water, air and other nutrients. With aeration loosening the soil, the roots have access to all the nutrients they need to survive and thrive. The best time to have your lawn aerated is either late summer or early fall.

From barbeques to summer parties, your lawn has endured a lot of activity this summer. Now is the time for your lawn to receive the care it needs to make it through the upcoming fall season.

At AC Yard Services, we provide comprehensive yard maintenance services. From mulching and mowing to aeration and fall clean-ups, we truly do it all to have your yard ready for the colder months ahead. Get in touch to discuss your end of summer yard maintenance needs!

 

Save Time by Hiring Us for Yard Work

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Save Time by Hiring Us

A well-maintained yard requires a lot of time and energy. You might think that a few lawnmower rounds are enough to make your lawn look sharp. But that is rarely the case. It can take long, tedious hours before your yard starts looking remotely like what you want, in some cases. However, with a landscaping company, you can pass on this responsibility to the professionals. Hiring people to fix up your yard will free up your summer, and will make your property look incredible.

Here is how working with AC Yard Services will help you save time and will get you desired results this summer!

HIRING PROFESSIONALS WILL FREE UP YOUR SUMMER TIME

The average homeowner often has to dedicate several hours a week to yard maintenance. From cleaning up lawn clippings to mulching the garden beds, a long list of tasks needs to be completed for the upkeep of your lawn. This can take up a significant amount of time, which you could be spending with your family and enjoying the wonderful Maine summer weather instead.

Let us save you the precious time and effort. Imagine how much backbreaking work and time spent shopping for products and equipment this can save you! And your yard will look professionally maintained to boot.

YOUR PROPERTY WILL BE PROFESSIONALLY MAINTAINED

Our team can certainly meet your yard maintenance needs! With our vast property services, we offer a one-stop solution to all our clients. Our professional crew will make sure your lawn is lush and green. From mulching to pruning, from grading to landscaping, we truly do it all.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Now is the perfect time to work with a professional and experienced yard service for your residential or commercial property. You can save your valuable summer time with our services. Our expert team will keep your outdoor space looking sharp and well-kept these upcoming months, when everyone is spending time outside.

Whether you want a monthly service or a one-time yard clean up, remember we are here for you. Just give us a call at (207) 712-5554 to get a customized plan, and we will make sure your yard servicing needs are taken care of.

Upgrade Your Home with a Professional Hardscape

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AC Yard Services and Hardscape Construction

When spring and summer arrive, we all find ourselves spending more time outside. Whether you’re sitting on the deck having coffee in the morning, or inviting friends and family over for an outdoor gathering, you want your property to look and feel like a comfortable, inviting place to be. Incorporating hardscape elements into your overall landscape design can help create the outdoor environment you want for your property.

What Is Hardscaping?

Hardscaping is, in essence, the parts of your landscape that are constructed. A patio, a walkway, a stone wall and rock edging along your gardens are all examples of hardscaping. These elements serve a functional purpose as well as a decorative purpose. Your patio gives you a place to gather, but it also gives you an opportunity to improve the overall aesthetic of your yard. With the right color and style of stones, a patio can give you an outdoor living area – not just a yard.

Also consider the stone edging along a flower garden; it serves the practical purpose of containing the soil but it also helps neaten the look of your garden. Plus, brightly colored rocks or stones used for the edging or for a pathway can add a vibrant accent to your yard.

Hardscaping is an excellent way to increase your property’s value. A home with an attractive patio or the clean aesthetic of a beautiful walkway to the front door will certainly catch a buyer’s eye.

Does AC Yard Services Provide Hardscaping Services?

We can certainly take care of your hardscaping projects! In Maine, spring and summer are great times to tackle upgrades to your yard. Start planning in early spring, and get the project done before or during the summer. With our landscaping expertise, we know just how to integrate hardscaping elements with your existing gardens and outdoor space. If you have hardscaping elements already in place that you’d like removed or replaced, we can also help with that.

Whether you’re looking for a full yard upgrade or some simple improvements to existing hardscape elements, the AC Yard Services team can help you out. Get in touch with us today to discuss your hardscaping needs for summer 2021.

The Value Of An AC Yard Services Annual Plan

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Landscaping & Property Maintenance You Can Count On

One of things we like to say at AC Yard Services is that we treat your property like our own. For us, this is more than a tagline or slogan, it’s truly how we operate our business and how we approach each and every job.

By offering annual plans, we offer our clients the opportunity to know their property is being taken care of, and taken care of well, year-round. In Maine, this is especially important. Every season brings with it a distinct set of chores that are important for keeping your property in the best shape possible all year.

Whether we’re keeping your flowers looking their best, your yard free of leaves or your driveway free of snow, with an annual plan from AC Yard Services you know the work will get done and it will get done right.

The Plans We Offer

We offer different annual plans to meet the unique needs of both our residential and commercial clients. We understand that there are some property chores or landscaping work people enjoy doing themselves, and not every property needs every chore tackled every season.

Our plans range from the basic maintenance needed each season, such as clean-up, mowing and plowing to comprehensive maintenance and landscaping projects. We can do everything from mulching to weeding to planting to pruning, and everything in between throughout the seasons to keep your property ready for the warmer months.

Every season brings with it an opportunity to help maintain and often improve the appearance of your property. Our plans are designed to meet the needs of Maine properties, which can get beaten up in the winter, need extra care in the spring, are beautiful in summer and need a good clean-up in the fall.

Whether you’re a homeowner, a business owner or a landlord/property owner, AC Yard Services has a plan that can fit your year-round property needs.

Our Difference

When we talk about treating your property like our own, that extends beyond the work itself to the timely way we get the work done. When you need your driveway plowed, you need it done promptly. When fall hits, you need your leaves raked up and removed promptly. When spring comes, you need debris cleared quickly so you can start prepping for summer planting.

Our prompt, reliable service in every season and with every job is what sets the AC Yard Services team apart. When you have an annual plan with us, you can count on us. We show up when we say we will, and always leave your property looking better than we found it.

No matter the season, no matter the property, you can rely on AC Yard Services to get the job done right. If you’d like to discuss which annual plan might be right for your southern Maine property, please contact us today. We make every effort to respond promptly to inquiries, so you will hear back from us soon.

Save Time With Our Winter Handyman Services

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Long To-Do List? The AC Yard Services Handyman Team Can Help!

Owning property comes with many responsibilities. In Maine, with a lot of older housing stock, maintaining your home can require a lot of extra work. Or, maybe you own a business, and try to get as much maintenance done yourself as you can, understanding that fresh paint and an overall tidy appearance can go a long way towards impressing clients and customers.

Either way, it can be a tough task to keep up with everything that needs to get done while you’re trying to keep up with your family’s needs, the demands of work or your business, and seasonal chores like shoveling.

After the holidays, it can also be easy for chores to pile up as you have new artwork to hang, or old toys that have been cleaned out and are now piled in the garage awaiting disposal. Maybe you got a new TV for Christmas, and just haven’t found the time to properly mount it.

Whatever the chores on your to-do (or honey-do) list, it can be frustrating when you just don’t have the time to get around to them.

At AC Yard Services, we’re here to try to ease the stress of property ownership in all regards. That includes helping you with all manner of handyman projects this winter!

Our handyman team can help you with:

  • General Home Repairs
  • Interior Painting
  • Furniture Assembly
  • Door Lock Installation
  • Hanging pictures and shelves
  • TV mounting
  • Drywall Repair
  • Cleaning and Dump-runs
  • General Home Organization
  • Moving and Delivery
  • Window/blind installation
  • And more!

Keeping up with property maintenance is about more than appearances – it ensures that your property is in the best shape possible, preventing future problems and bigger headaches.The longer you let junk pile up in your garage, for example, the harder a problem it becomes to deal with in the long run – you might even run into an issue like rodents nesting in there.

Property maintenance is also about peace of mind. When you have clutter around, or are constantly reminded of all that you have to do every time you see that hole in your drywall, it’s hard to relax.

The AC Yard Services handyman team is experienced in property maintenance, and we have the right equipment to get the job done. You could go through the hassle of renting a truck, loading up your junk and dragging it to the dump – or you could give us a call and let us come and take care of it for you. Don’t waste time this winter going to Lowe’s to stock up on all the right supplies for drywall repair, or fumble through your old toolbox for the right screwdriver to assemble furniture. Give us a call and pass the project off so you can get back to enjoying time with your family.

We do this kind of work because we enjoy it and we enjoy seeing people with less burdens to shoulder during these slow winter months. How can we help you? Give us a call today at (207) 712-5554 and we can talk about your to-do list and how to get it taken care of.