{"id":1969,"date":"2022-07-26T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawnmowing101.com\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T20:11:02","slug":"lawn-mowing-standards-time-to-raise-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawnmowing101.com\/lawn-mowing-standards-time-to-raise-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn Care Standards \u2013 Time to Raise the Bar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawn mowing standards \u2013 Are they slipping?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I often drive past a job and wonder what the lawn guy was thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The edges are poorly done and there are random chunks of grass on the lawn. It looks horrible and is well below what good lawn mowing standards would produce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I often walk my dog past a business in Te Rapa and I have commented to my wife about the state of the lawns. I figured that it was because the business got a worker (who didn\u2019t know much about lawnmowing) to do the lawns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shocked to walk past the other day and see one of New Zealand\u2019s largest landscaping companies doing the lawn. The guy with the mower kept on changing the height and the guy with the weedeater was going the wrong way with the machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it can be hard sometimes to keep employees on track. That was one of the reasons we scaled back from five vehicles to two. We felt that our standards were dropping and it was really hard to find people who cared as much about our business as we did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We even had an agreement that if a worker finished his day\u2019s work early, they could go home. However, if a customer complained then they went back and fixed it up on their own time. That worked ok but it wasn\u2019t the answer for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one thing that we can all control is our own standards on the job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want a good business then you need to set high standards and stick to them. If I am in the vehicle and just about the leave a property and I see something that\u2019s not right. I stop, get out the tools and fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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