Services
This site has spent years explaining how to do yard work yourself. This section covers the other half — the jobs where the honest answer is that hiring someone is cheaper, safer, or the only legal option.
The short answer
Nothing here will tell you to hire out a job you can do. What each page does instead is name the specific point where a job stops being a weekend — a ladder height, a licence you can’t get, equipment nobody owns, a colony that will go into the room instead of out the window — and leave everything short of that point to you.
Which section do you need?
| If you have | Section | Usually |
|---|---|---|
| Insects in the turf or on the house | Pest control | Often DIY |
| An animal digging, denning or in the attic | Wildlife removal | Often licensed |
| Mowing, feeding, aeration, seeding | Lawn care | DIY or convenience |
| Anything above head height on a tree | Tree service | Crew work |
| Overgrowth past a quarter acre | Clearing | Crew and a chipper |
| Gutters on a second storey | Gutters | Height decides it |
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Animals
Wildlife removal
Identify from the hole and the signs, then find out if it’s licensed. 6 guides.
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Trees
Tree removal & trimming
Which jobs can’t wait, and when you call the utility instead.
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Gutters
Gutter cleaning & installation
The DIY line is about height, not skill.
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Clearing
Brush, hedges & land clearing
Clearing scales badly, and disposal is the half that surprises people.
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Commercial
Commercial grounds & pest
Contract work where requirements and liability differ.
Coming soon
The guides are still free and still the first thing to read. The lawn care, products and reviews archives predate this section by years. If a job is genuinely doable, that’s where the method lives — in full, with no number attached to it.
How this section is paid for
Some pages here carry a phone number. When you call it we’re paid a fee by the network that connects you — whether or not you book anything. That’s the entire model. It has one obvious failure mode, so the rule here is that roughly half the answers end with no number at all, and the ones that do name the specific thing that put them there.