Two hundred hectares of business estate, a new community of four thousand homes going up beside it, and earthworks still moving. Tauriko is the one place we work where the commercial job comes first.
Business site or new home? Both work — just tell us which.
All twelve run here. Book one, or have the whole section sorted on the same visit and get a single invoice.
Commercial work is priced as an annual programme rather than per visit. Residential is straightforward.
green waste included. Prices exclude GST, with GST added at the standard rate on the invoice. Commercial sites are quoted as a fixed annual programme split into equal monthly invoices, with visit frequency stepping up over summer and back through winter — so the grounds line in your budget does not move. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted and approved before it happens, never added afterwards.
Two very different jobs sharing one name — a working business estate, and a brand new residential community beside it.
On a business site the grounds are part of the front. A tired carpark island reads as a tired operation to anyone arriving. It matters practically too — growth over a sightline at a truck exit is a safety issue, not an aesthetic one. We treat those as the same job, and work around forklift routes and loading bays rather than through them.
You cannot simply turn up on a working site. Every site here runs its own induction and sign-in, and under health and safety law we are overlapping duty holders with you. We bring a site-specific safety plan and a current insurance certificate, and we work outside your busy windows where the operation needs it.
Live earthworks mean dust. With new stages still being formed, sites near active works get a film of dust on planting, glass and hard surfaces that no amount of mowing addresses. Blowing down and washing off is part of keeping a frontage presentable here, and it is worth building into a maintenance scope rather than treating as a one-off.
New homes here need screening, not decoration. If you have bought in Tauriko West you are living beside an industrial estate and a state highway. What matters is a screen that will actually block headlights and give the section privacy within a few years. Two things people get wrong: spacing it too far apart so it never closes, and letting it run to full height before trimming, which leaves it bare at the base — exactly where you need it.
The estate, the retail precinct, the new community and the rural edge beyond it.
Matakokiri Drive · Kaweroa Drive · Kiriwehi Street · Paraone Koi Koi Drive · the Stage 4 area
Tauranga Crossing · the retail precinct · office and showroom frontages · carpark surrounds
Redwood Lane · the new residential stages · sections still being landscaped · Whiore Avenue side
SH29 Kaimai corridor · Belk Road · the Omanawa River boundary · lifestyle blocks beyond
Not listed? Ask anyway — Tauriko, The Lakes and Pyes Pā run together as one round for us.
The estate and the retail precinct, out through the new stages to Kaimai and the Omanawa side — all one route for us.
Kaimai and Omanawa are out past the estate proper, but still on our run — ask and we’ll confirm.
Elevated and inland like Pyes Pā, so growth runs later and stops harder than on the coast.
Peak growth and peak dust at once, and it is also when weeds appear along kerbs and carpark cracks faster than at any other time. On a commercial site this is the part of the year where a fortnightly gap genuinely shows from the street. Programmes step up to weekly through here for exactly that reason.
The right window for planting or reshaping a screening hedge in Tauriko West. Ground is still warm enough to establish before winter, and a hedge given its first shaping cuts now thickens from the base instead of running up leggy. That base density is the whole point of a screen.
Inland and elevated, so growth here really does stop rather than just slow. Monthly is plenty on most sites. It is also the quietest run of our year, which makes winter the easiest time to get a bigger project scheduled properly — a new lawn, a screening line, a full site reset.
Tauriko wakes a couple of weeks behind the coast, then moves fast. On a large site that means going from monthly to weekly inside about six weeks. Having the programme already set means it happens automatically rather than after somebody notices the verges have got away.
They turned up with an insurance certificate and a safety plan before we even asked, did the induction, and work around our truck movements rather than through them. The frontage has never looked better and the invoice is the same every month.
What businesses and new residents out here ask us most.
Yes — it is the main thing we do in Tauriko. Frontages, carpark islands, verges, boundary planting and sightlines at exits, on a scheduled programme rather than call-outs. We come with a current public liability certificate and a site-specific safety plan, and our crew completes whatever induction or sign-in your site runs before starting.
Yes, and on a lot of Tauriko sites it is the sensible answer. Early starts before staff arrive, or scheduling noisy work away from your busy windows. Some constraints do affect how efficiently we can route a day, so it is worth raising at the site walk rather than after the price is set — but it is never a problem in itself.
As a fixed annual figure split into equal monthly invoices. Visit frequency steps up through summer and back through winter, but the monthly amount stays the same, which makes budgeting straightforward. The scope is written down before we start — what happens every visit, what is seasonal, and what counts as a variation. Anything outside it gets quoted and approved before it happens.
Ground, then screening, then lawn. These sections were orchard and pasture, then carried construction traffic, so the subsoil is compacted and turf laid straight onto the builder’s topsoil struggles by its second summer. Cultivating to depth first is what makes it last. And get your screening line in early — it is the thing that takes years, so the sooner it starts the sooner it works.
Something evergreen, dense from the base and manageable at the height you actually need. Griselinia and pittosporum are the reliable workhorses on this ground and both re-shoot from bare wood, so they can be brought back if they get away. Avoid conifers unless you are certain about the final height, because they will not regrow from brown wood. Space tighter than you would an ornamental hedge, and start trimming in year one.
It does. With Stage 4 still being formed, sites near active works get a film of dust on planting, glass and hard surfaces. Mowing does not touch it — what helps is regular blow-downs and washing off hard areas, which we build into a maintenance scope rather than charging as one-offs. It makes a bigger difference to how a frontage presents than most people expect.
Weekly through December to February, fortnightly either side, and monthly from May through August. That winter window is longer than on the coast because Tauriko is inland and elevated, so growth genuinely stops rather than slowing. Commercial programmes follow the same curve automatically.
Green waste disposal is already included. Prices are quoted exclusive of GST, with GST added at the standard rate on the invoice, so nothing gets added at invoice time.
Areas on the same run — handy if you have sites or a home elsewhere in the Bay.
