Lawncare customers pay for mowing when grass is too wet
14 posts across 3 communities in the last 90 days; 86% from r/lawncare.
“Homeowner here, I’ll give you my experience. - ground is soaked, shouldn’t mow - homeowner messages company and says this. Company says no problem - guy does exactly this - they pack up and leave - homeowner calls and asks what happened - company denies they showed up…”
“50$ was gonna be my price for a medium priced yard [re: Lawn mowing business]”
“Personally, if I paid someone to come out and to do all of that and I wasn’t satisfied, I’d call them back and have them aerate more and throw more seed. My lawn last year looked like a warzone after I aerated lol”
Several users expressed concern that a lawn care service performed work (mowing) when the grass was visibly too wet, leading to a poor result and potentially damaging the lawn. Users advised against paying for this type of substandard service and suggested seeking refunds or alternative providers.
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“50$ was gonna be my price for a medium priced yard [re: Lawn mowing business]”
“Homeowner here, I’ll give you my experience. - ground is soaked, shouldn’t mow - homeowner messages company and says this. Company says no problem - guy does exactly this - they pack up and leave - homeowner calls and asks what happened - company denies they showed up - homeowner buys spends $10k on zero turn and all sorts of cool stuff - homeowner fixes lawn with some seed and raking - homeowner does this to himself weeks later - homeowner denies it to wife It’s the circle of life [re: Nasty sk”
“Thats why you always walk the lawn first to check if its wet or not. When in doubt postpone (landscaper here.)”
“As a landscaper in hawaii: sometimes it's just simply too wet to mow a slope. I'd reschedule for another day or skip a week if that's not feasible.”
“Personally, if I paid someone to come out and to do all of that and I wasn’t satisfied, I’d call them back and have them aerate more and throw more seed. My lawn last year looked like a warzone after I aerated lol”
“Yep at least another week or three mower is just going to rut, trample, and rip that out”
“I didn't buy their full package just mowing, i got other quotes and they were the same that's why i went with them”
Switch companies next year, just to make a statement. That's BS.
“Friendly reminder to everyone that has a lawn service, with all of this rain, make sure you tell your crew not to cut if the ground is saturated like it is here in NJ. My guys (who are normally exceptional), just tore up my backyard and when the mower got stuck in the mud, the guy decided to just give it more gas. As anyone who has gone "mudding" in their off road vehicles knows, that just sank him in further. Looks like I'll be getting a HUGE discount and some free seeding for thi”
“My lawn takes about three hours. I would pay someone at least 60 to cut it with edging. 50 would be cheap. Bed work is extra.”
“I was to mow and weed wack only the front yard. It was large overgrown. Now edging to save money. I didn't ask about grass hight or clippings as the yard from the street didn't look so overgrown due to how uniform it was, very think grass. It was maybe 2 or 3 times higher than it should be. This was my first time cut with them and a one time cut. The couple used to do landscaping and owned a large walker mower that I guess they sold, then had their kid do it once or twice with a”
“Looking for someone to take care of my lawn, bi-weekly schedule. I’m located in the Arlington area (32277). Anyone have any suggestions for someone affordable? Just basics, cut, trim, and clean up. submitted by /u/Ok-Paper3052 [link] [comments]”
“Thats the question because he might just be there to cut grass ive come across people that take it out on a lawn service but theyre not being paid to do that only cut ans service lawn the more you work with public the more you realize alot of people have mental health issues”
I would save your money and do it yourself. Can’t be much worse tbh.
“You might have to pay more, but since you have a more sensitive type of grass, find someone who will take more time with a smaller mower. Too many of these damn companies are douchbags “profitmaxxing” by speed running people’s lawns in 10 minutes with a commercial mower, and honestly not giving a fuck about the results”
“We live in SE PA and started using a Lawncare company this year to cut and weed whack. We used to push mow and between that and weed whacking it would take about 3 hours each week so we needed a break. We have a small front yard and a pool in the backyard which takes up most of the space. We have a walkout basement so the sides of our house and backyard have an incline, we also have several flower beds and a rock bed surrounding the pool, so it's a lot of weed whacking. They weed whack and c”
“I'd mow that for 25 Bucks + gas. (gets me away from the boss and kids) BUT DAMN who was this guy. sorry to see that.”
“Nah you right thats foul he didnt know what he was doing he went too fast didnt do enough passes and had blunt blades that looks long and thick as heck gotta cut it high then low and go slow as fuck especially if its wet he would have been getting his shit blocked up and then getting pissed at it and rushed through to get out of there hire a professional it'll probably cost 300 minimum the first time that's standard no mater the condition its a one off clean up rate then it'll be an”
“My 14 year old son mows lawns in the summer and he does infinitely better than this slop job.”
“Is he blind or did he use a weed whacker to cut your grass? That is the worst cut job in history.”
“That sucks, love my lawn care guy he sends a picture of the lawn with the invoice for payment via text message.”
“It looks like it could have been the first mowing after the grass had gotten very long. You may want to consider having him come a little more frequent...at least the first couple of times.”
“Yes it’s bad. Very bad. Although if it was much longer to start and it was very wet he should have known better. If it was me, I would have went the opposite direction a second time over. But he didn’t care. He just wanted to move on. Paying double would be to go the opposite direction a second time, not paying double just because it’s long and not ensuring he does a cross cut. You have been scammed. Anyhow it’s a half decent base to stay on top of moving forward.”
“i am really not sure how you could mow this bad. for a minute i thought maybe it was mowed once, then someone came back, lowered the mower for another pass and only did like 30% of the yard and called it quits”
“Single pass with a mulching setup might look like this. Deck probably clogged up. It's shit work either way. I have a lawn care business and I'll do as many passes as it takes. If things are really wet I'll work on getting it knocked down and then communicate to the customer that I'll swing back for another pass once it's dried up.”
“Yea def too wet to cut. Usually if we see that one pass we shut it down. It will be fine In a couple days but I would def get at least half the $ back. If you pushed for it to be done that day that would be one thing, offering to reschedule, still doing it and up charging to leave this is bad lol.”
“You set this guy up for failure. They should have waited for the grass to dry. And maybe done two visits. They did a bad job”
“Paid a guy to come cut my grass and weed eat. Quote he gave me was 75 dollars every other week. My yard is a third of an acre so that sounded fair to me. When he gets here I’m in the middle of the workday so I show him around. It’s been three weeks since I cut it (I have too much going on, hence the new lawncare guy). He tells me since it’s so tall he’ll need to double his quote to 150 this first time to knock it all down. I can see how that makes sense and I needed this done today, so I agree.”