Calgary Landscaping Contractor

Is your Calgary Landscape looking like an empty canvass filled with potential?

After a hard day at work, it is nice to come home to a place where you can relax stress free.

Imagine the sound of a babbling brook by a patio that holds a brand new outdoor table set where you and your family can share meals and memories, intertwined with a beautiful landscape.

Calgary is an interesting place to plan a landscape as we are subject to erratic weather. I think everyone in Calgary has gone outside after a good night's sleep and seen a blanket of snow over their Backyard Landscape in May, June and sometimes even July & August.

Nevertheless, creating your own backyard paradise is totally worth it, despite the short season.

You can start by looking out over your porch veranda, think it over and decide if Landscaping will fit your budget. Don't bother pursing a landscaping plan if you haven't set your budget because you will be in for some surprises. The landscaping cost will ultimately depend on what you want.

On the other hand DO NOT go with the cheapest Calgary landscaper as you definitely get what you pay for.

There's a big variance in terms of quotations for the same Landscaping construction projects. This is inevitably true for the Calgary area. The prospering economy that Calgary saw in recent years has made it very easy for inexperienced landscapers to enter the market.

A while ago I went to a landscaping quote in Calgary and a couple needed a landscape retaining wall. They ended up getting a few landscapers to quote and the quotes came in with a spread of about $16,000.00. For a Calgary homeowner looking to do a landscape project, this is absurd.

Consequently the Calgary couple picked the cheap landscaping quote. They ended up getting a couple of kids who called themselves landscapers. The Landscaping project ended up taking way longer than it should have and the Calgary Couple spent most of that summer in a Landscaping Construction mess.

Furthermore, the landscape was not excavated properly as they didn't have the proper landscaping equipment to dig properly. Most Calgary Landscaping companies have in the very least a skid steer. This Calgary Landscaping job required a mini back hoe so that the grade could be excavated down to the clay. For most Calgary Gardener's clay is a nightmare, but in this case, the high levels of clay in Calgary is great sub base for building.

Now back to the couple from Calgary. The two landscapers build the landscape wall with shovels, they took almost all summer to build the landscape wall. Once they were finished all of the landscaping a rain storm hit and caused the wall to break apart. Imagine that,the kids forgot to account for drainage. The stability of the landscape wall paid the price.

The Calgary Couple took pride in their Landscaping, the Landscapers did not. What a familiar story. In the end, the Calgary homeowners re did the landscape wall. They had to pay for someone to take the landscaping apart and then pay for some one to rebuild the landscape wall.

Total cost: the cost of the high bidder anyways, plus the better part of two beautiful Calgary summers wasted in Landscaping construction.

Anyways, not to scare anybody, but make sure you do research into who you hire for your Calgary Landscaper project. Usually price is a good indicator of the quality of Landscape work one receives.

Good luck with all of your Calgary Landscaping endeavors and make sure you do proper research before hiring a Calgary Landscaping Contractor .

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Written By John Ohlund