The plan sets your rate. The property sets your price. Choose how often you want us and we’ll quote your actual section — then the schedule moves with the seasons on its own.
Tell us the section and the rhythm. We’ll do the rest.
Every plan includes exactly the same work on the day. What changes is how often we come — and the more regular you are, the less each visit costs.
Big growers, showpiece lawns, and December to February on almost any section.
The sweet spot for most Bay of Plenty sections, and what we put nine out of ten people on.
Shaded or inland sections, holiday homes, and anyone who only wants it kept respectable.
Before a sale or inspection, after a holiday, or when it has genuinely got away on you.
Why “from”? Because a 200m² courtyard and a half-acre block are not the same job, and pretending otherwise would mean padding one to cover the other. The plan sets your rate; your section sets your price. Section 05 lists exactly what moves it.
Not an upgrade, not an add-on, not “that’s extra”. This is the standard job whichever plan you pick.
Clippings are mulched back into the lawn by default — finely chopped, they feed the soil and you will not see them within a few hours on a regularly mown section. Prefer them collected and taken away? Just say so and we will, at no extra charge.
Less than people assume. Here is the real arithmetic on a standard Tauranga section, with nothing hidden.
Fewer weeks of growth between cuts means a faster visit, clippings fine enough to mulch back in, and no recovery work.
Half the visits, but each one costs 30% more because there is far more growth to take off and the clippings have to be collected rather than mulched.
And we will say the obvious part too: if you only ever want it tidy occasionally, four one-off mows a year genuinely is the cheapest thing you can do. It is just a different result — the lawn spends most of the year long, and long grass cut hard comes back thin. We would rather you knew that up front than found out in your second summer. Figures are worked examples on a standard section, not a quote.
Grass does not grow at one speed, so a plan that visits at one speed is either wasting your money in July or losing your lawn in January. Ours moves.
Your rate never changes — only how often we turn up.
You are billed per visit, so in winter you are simply billed less often. Nobody pays a flat fee for mows that never happened, and nobody pays a surcharge when we step up to weekly through the peak — your per-visit rate does not change.
If you would rather have one predictable figure a month all year, we can average the annual total into twelve equal invoices instead. Plenty of people prefer that for budgeting. Just ask.
It is your lawn. Want it left longer over summer, skipped while you are away, or kept fortnightly through winter because you like it sharp? Text us. No form, no notice period, no explaining yourself.
The seasonal stepping is a default that saves most people money, not a rule. If yours is a shaded Ōhauiti section or an exposed Pāpāmoa one, we will already be adjusting for that anyway.
Five things, in roughly the order they matter. None of them are a mystery and none of them appear after the fact.
Mown area, not section size. Drives, beds, decking and buildings all come off the total — two identical 700m² sections can have wildly different amounts of grass on them.
Straight off the drive, or every load barrowed through a narrow side gate. On tight older sections this changes the job more than the lawn area does.
Edging is what takes the time, not mowing. A corner section has far more of it than a mid-block one at exactly the same lawn area.
Banks need walk-behind or dedicated slope gear and take noticeably longer than flat ground. Common through Welcome Bay and Ōhauiti.
A one-off, not an ongoing cost. If the lawn has got away, the reset cut is quoted separately — every visit after it is the normal plan price.
If the lawn has got away, the first visit is not a normal mow and we will not pretend it is. Very long grass cannot be dropped to a tidy height in one pass — it tears, it goes yellow, and it comes back thin. So we take it down in stages, and the clippings have to be collected rather than mulched because there are far too many.
That takes longer, so it is quoted separately from your ongoing rate. You get both numbers before we start: what the reset costs, and what every visit after it costs. The second one is always the smaller one.
Because a flat rate only works if you round everyone up to cover the hard jobs. That means the easy sections quietly subsidise the difficult ones, and you have no way of knowing which you are.
We would rather look at your property and give you a number that is actually yours. It is free, it takes ten minutes, and on a standard section we can usually do it from two photos without visiting at all.
Any of these can sit on top of a mowing plan, done on the same visit by the same crew. One trip, one invoice, no separate booking.
Plenty of people should keep mowing their own lawn and we are not going to tell you otherwise. But the comparison is rarely as one-sided as it looks.
Plus somewhere to store it all, and a green waste run every few weeks.
If you enjoy it, keep doing it. A well-kept lawn you mow yourself on a Saturday morning is a genuinely good thing and no contractor is going to beat it on price alone.
Where a plan makes sense is when the mowing has become a chore you keep putting off — because a lawn mown late is worse than one mown by someone else on time, and the catch-up cuts cost more than the routine ones ever would.
It also stacks up if the section is large, steep, or awkward enough that the right gear costs thousands rather than hundreds. That is most of what we do at Ōmokoroa, Te Puna and Te Puke.
See what yours would costWe went fortnightly two summers ago and have not thought about the lawn since. They go weekly over Christmas without me asking and drop off in winter without me asking, and the bill just follows along. That is the whole point really.
These do not run on residential plans, because the thing being bought is different.
The frequency options are identical. What changes is what lands in your inbox afterwards.
Frequency still steps up over summer and back through winter — but your invoice does not move all year.
The things people want settled before they commit to anything.
No. There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee on residential plans. You are on a simple service agreement that sets out the schedule and the price, and you can pause, reschedule or stop with reasonable notice. Most people stay because the lawn looks good, not because leaving is difficult. Commercial grounds are written as annual programmes because that is how seasons and budgets work, but there is a straightforward exit there too.
Yes, and plenty do. Text us — no form, no notice period, no explanation needed. Going away, having people over, or just think it does not need doing this time? Fine. Some people pause entirely from June to August and pick back up in September, and that costs nothing. Bear in mind that a long pause means the first cut back is a bigger job than usual.
Per visit by default, so in winter you are simply invoiced less often. If you would rather have one predictable figure every month, we can average the annual total into twelve equal invoices instead — a lot of people prefer that for budgeting. Either way, prices exclude GST, with GST added at the standard rate on the invoice, and green waste disposal is already included.
We move it. Mowing a saturated lawn tears the grass and leaves ruts, which is worse than leaving it a few days. We push to the next suitable day and let you know, then your schedule picks back up as normal. With the rain we get here it happens from time to time, and you are not charged for a visit that did not happen.
No. As long as we can get to the lawn we will do it and you will come home to a tidy section. Just tell us about locked gates, dogs, or anything you would rather we left alone. We send a photo after each visit so you can see it went ahead even if you were nowhere near the place.
Any time, and it is common. People start fortnightly, find their section grows harder than expected and move to weekly for summer, or go the other way on a shaded property. There is no admin fee and no penalty — your rate simply moves to the new plan’s rate from the next visit.
Not a problem, and it is a decent share of our work. Very long grass cannot be dropped to a tidy height in one pass without damaging it, so we take it down in stages and collect the clippings rather than mulching them. That first cut is quoted separately from your ongoing rate, and you get both numbers before we start. From the second visit onward you are on the normal plan price.
That is the intention and it is what regular customers get — a set day and the same crew. Weather and the occasional big job can shift things by a day, in which case we tell you rather than leaving you wondering. What we will not do is disappear for three weeks without a word, which is the thing everyone has been burned by before.
