Grant industries gardening

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Since I know other people have had trouble getting gardeners who are interested in actually turning up to do ones gardening(*): I just got my garden weeded and reticulation fixed by Grant Industries in Bayswater, and they were quick friendly and cheap ($35 an hour, and didn't charge me extra when it took an hour longer than they estimated) 0415819908 or 92754154

He didn't quite do all the things I expected to get done, but did do all things I asked for so I guess that's my fault for not being clear.

I think the trick is to use the local paper not the yellow pages.

(*)I'm pretty sure that every single time I have left my number with a gardener for them to call me back it wasn't returned.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Speaking as a gardener, it's not so much that they don't want the work as that with a very few exceptions we all hate using the phone. For some reason the two seem to go together. So it's best to keep ringing until answered rather than hoping they will ring back.

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Fair enough. I don't like using the phone much myself which is why I hated having to ring so many people!

[meljane.livejournal.com]

As an ex gardener I'm not big on answering the phone either but for a job I would so answer the phone .

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*nods*

[curiousities.livejournal.com]

Interesting to know we're not the only ones who struggle to hear back from gardeners. Out of our last 5 "lawn guys", only 1 was reliable and regular at mowing the lawns (and thus didn't need to be rung a million times about getting the lawn mowed). Sadly, he sold his business and moved on and we've been struggling to find someone reliable ever since.

I can understand disliking the phone and not being good at returning calls (guilty myself), it's another thing when it's regular work that is "booked in" that consistently gets done late and often at short notice. Eg waking up suddenly to find lawn guy mowing the lawn while you're still in bed (or just out of shower eep!) and the back door is open for the dog. Then scrounging around the house trying to find money to pay said lawn guy.

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I haven't actually had any problems with reliability once I get them to actually make an appointment, so there you go.