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Sultan sits on the Sultan River, on the way up the highway toward the trails and the passes. Yards step with the terrain. Water comes off the higher ground, crosses a lawn, and heads for the river or the ditch. Foothill cleanups are limbs, leaners, and brush from the timber, not a few bags of leaves. The trailer and the saw are the job.
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Storm wood and the edge of the clearing
We clear what fell, cut what is about to fall on the drive or the roof, and open the paths. Slash gets hauled or bucked, not left in a berm that sheds water at the foundation.
A full lot-clear is a different machine and a different bid. If you want daylight through a half-acre of alder, say so. We will not discover that at the end of a “spring cleanup” price.
The ground in Sultan
The useful projects are the ones that make a sloped lot walkable: a gravel path that stays put, a rock wall where the bank is cutting, a drain at the top of the slope so the patio is not the creek. Forest edge is close. Alders and maples lean in, and after a wind the cleanup is limbs, not a few leaves on a patio.
Lawns exist on the benches. They need seed that can take shade at the tree line and a soil that is often thin. We do not promise a golf-course surface against the timber. Native mountain plants hold the cuts better than a bark bed that just slides downhill in January. Access for machines is usually fine along the highway side and tight once you are in the trees. We look at that before we promise a wall.
How we do the work
A cleanup is debris gone, beds redefined, and the hazards cut. We haul. A pile at the curb that sits for a month is not a finish. Brush, rotten wood, the fallen fence panel, the blackberries that took the side yard: that is the work.
We do not “clean” a yard by blowing leaves into the beds and covering them with a thin coat of bark. If bark is part of the visit, the bed is weeded first. If it is not in the bid, we do not fake it.
The walk-through is the scope. A bigger pile, a surprise blackberry thicket, or a tree that needs a climber changes the day, and we say that before we start rather than after the trailer is full.
What we look at first
- What is actually being hauled
- Blackberries, downed limbs, and junk versus a normal leaf drop
- Access for a trailer
- Whether you want it bare and ready, or just safe and tidy
Hauling
Included when we said it was included. Green waste, rotten fence boards, the bagged pile you already made. We do not take household trash, paint, or anything we cannot legally dump as yard waste. Ask before you add a mystery pile.
Ready for the next thing
A good cleanup ends with edges you can mow and beds you could bark. If the next step is renovation, we leave the yard ready for that instead of dressing it with mulch we are about to dig through.
Blackberries
Cut to the ground and hauled, with the understanding they return from the roots. A cleanup is not eradication. A follow-up, or a dig-out if the patch is small, is how you actually get rid of them. We will say which you bought.
More from this crew
- Yard cleanup across Snohomish County
- Tree and shrub pruning in Sultan
- Beauty bark in Sultan
- Landscaping in Sultan
- Pressure washing in Sultan
- Yard cleanup in Monroe
- Yard cleanup in Gold Bar
- Yard cleanup in Index
Sources for the climate and the water
- USDA plant hardiness map for choosing plants that can take a Snohomish County winter.
- EPA WaterSense on watering less once a lawn or a new planting is established.
- EPA Soak Up the Rain on keeping roof and yard water from becoming someone else’s problem.
