The Final Step That Makes or Breaks the Property

Blower, same thing. It's going to use a 2-cycle mix. Make sure that this is shaken up really well before you start to pour it in, otherwise it'll give you problems. So we'll go ahead and shake it up, top off our fuel, we are ready to roll. Last thing we need to do is blow. That's the final finishing touches to make sure the customer is super satisfied. So on every visit, we are mowing, weed eating, edging and blowing every single time. If you can blow with the wind, it's going to make your life easier. Start in the street first. We're going to blow everything up onto the sidewalk in the front yard, and then we're going to come through and blow the sidewalk. Then we're going to go up to the front porch. Every single visit, we need to blow complementary, the front porch and the back porch, whether we dirtied it up or not. Anytime there's a vehicle, you're gonna see a two-part component. I'm gonna come through and I'm gonna blow everything underneath the vehicle, then I'm gonna wrap myself around and I'm gonna blow the curb. Failing to do that may get called back because there's grass in the, in the street. You got to get everything underneath it and then you got to blow everything out. The key with this piece of equipment is you only want to cross your tracks with once. If you have to go back and re-blow an area that you've already blown, you're not doing it right. There's a more efficient way. What I see where most people fail on the blowing side is they leave it like this. What I'm showing you is the edging line. You see all the dirt that's clumped up in this area here? It's not clean. Now take a look at this side. Look how clean Look at how clean this cut is inside those edging lines. So when I'm blowing, not only am I blowing the sidewalk, but I'm also blowing in the edging line to make sure it's nice and clean. Notice where my feet are standing. They're on the walkway of the grassy area, and we're blowing everything this way. We already cleaned up the street. I don't want to put more grass and clippings back there. I don't want to re-blow it, so I'm positioning myself to keep blowing it this way so I don't ever have to go back and re-clean an area I already cleaned up. This is an example of what it looks like when we don't do a good job edging. As you can see, there's grass because we were not guiding the blade directly, pulling it towards the concrete. It slipped to the right, and now there's grass that was left here. So you can either just kind of hand pull this, or if there's a lot, you can grab the edger and re-edge it. Generally speaking, I'm almost always full throttling the blower when I'm cleaning off the sidewalk, driveway, and curbs. Second thing, every time on every property, every visit, we give a complimentary blow on the front and back porch. Just go directly to the mat, put one foot on it, get behind yourself, and just blow everything out. Fastest, most efficient way to do it. And when you are blowing on the edges, be mindful of the neighbors, okay? We get calls sometimes saying, hey, you blew all stuff into my neighbor's yard. We don't want to do that. Curve or angle yourself where you're blowing it back on the lawn that we're cutting. That is the goal. Put the clippings back into the grass area of what we just cut. We split the driveway in half, blow half to the right, half to the left. If there's wind, I'm just going to sometimes work with the wind. This is another perfect example of a callback They will not be satisfied with this, okay? This is not to our standard. We need to come back and we need to re-edge this area. You can see the edger blade came off the concrete and started cutting into the sod, leaving this. So when you guys are edging, make sure you're rubbing it along the concrete so that way this is not causing this.