Work Procedure for Yard Clean Up

Scope

The scope of this process begins after you have started your day and have arrived on the job site with all the required tools and materials. This procedure also assumes that the customer has been notified of the visit before arriving.

Responsibilities

Custodia Helpers are responsible for following the seasonal yard cleanup checklists for all yard cleanup projects. All steps are to be covered before, during, and after each service.

☝🏾 All phone or website estimates for seasonal yard cleanups are to be confirmed by the helper and the customer before executing the work.

If a home does not require all steps, or if there are additional steps in the notes not covered in the list below, default to the notes on the Job itself. Use this as a reference to ensure you’re getting everything the customer might expect.

Job execution procedure

1. First, arrive at the job site and use your timer to ‘clock in’
2. Say hello to the customer and confirm the estimate of work and price for the seasonal cleanup.
3. While working, perform the mandatory perimeter safety check
4. When completing the work, check with the customer to ensure that the work is done to their liking
   1. Never assume it is just because you think it is – always asks the customer if it’s done to their liking
   2. Go over the perimeter check results and inform them of any issues you see
5. Ask the customer if there is anything else they need on a future visit
6. Take pictures of the work and post any notes to the customer’s account
7. Put away your tools, say goodbye, and head to your next customer job site.

Seasonal Yard Cleanup Checklist

Yard Cleanup Checklist

• [ ] Rake Lawn
• [ ] Rake Gardens
• [ ] Prune back dead plants and grasses
  • [ ] Be very careful not to kill the plants or pull them out
  • [ ] If You’re in doubt, ask the customer DO NOT just cut it down
• [ ] Clip bushes and shrubs as direct by customer
  • [ ] Always double-check with the customer and ask how they would like their hedges trimmed.
• [ ] Rake up or use the leaf blower to bag debris, sticks, leaves
• [ ] Leave yard waste bags beside the home or out for city pickup
• [ ] If the customer requests a dump run, bill accordingly
• [ ] Pulling weeds.
  • [ ] Make sure the customer knows that you don’t use chemicals and can only pull weeds. Estimate your time accordingly
• [ ] Hedge Pruning
• [ ] Mow the lawn
• [ ] Mulching

Tools and Materials

Your tools and materials are limited but important.

• [ ] Yard Waste Bags
• [ ] Gloves
• [ ] Hedge Trimmer
• [ ] Garden Fork/shovel
• [ ] Rake
• [ ] Weed Snatcher
• [ ] Rust-oleum’s renovator grass color
• [ ] Lawn Mower
• [ ] Leaf Blower
• [ ] Hedge shears
• [ ] Hose
• [ ] Spade or shovel
• [ ] Leaf Vacuum (optional)
• [ ] Ground load wheelbarrow (optional)
• [ ] Other tools as needed by notes in job

General Execution Guidelines

Best tools that make yard work easier

• Rust-oleum’s renovator grass color
• Ground load wheelbarrow
• Weed snatcher
• Handy camel clip
• Robomow Robotic lawnmower

Points on fertilizing

• Choose a good fertilizer
• Get the appropriate spreader for your fertilizer
• Always follow the directions on the fertilizer bag
• Don’t spread fertilizer by hanD

Points on watering the yard

• Water two to three times a week
• Water in the morning, afternoon or evening.
• Do not water when it gets dark

Points to control weeds

• Uproot the visible weeds with your hands
• Hoe the garden
• Rake up all the weeds

Point to mowing your yard

• Mow your grass tall, 3 inches or above
• Mow once a week
• Sharpen your blades at least once every four mows.

Points to mulching like a pro

• Prune anything in need and weed beds before edging
• Make edges clean, neat and straight
• Spread mulch but remove mulch from the grasses around

Points to pruning trees in a yard

• Know when to prune the particular type of tree
• Remove handing limbs, and damaged and diseased branches
• Find the strong leader branches and determine what branches to cut
• Cut the branches appropriately