General FAQ’s
About Gardening Services
Grab a Gardener was developed to offer an easy solution for people looking for a local, trusted and reliable gardener to carry out basic maintenance tasks, these include:
- Lawn mowing
- Strimming
- Hedge trimming (Below 6ft)
- Pruning / Hard pruning
- Planting shrub beds
We can also provide Landscaping & Garden Design services (on request / on quotation) which include:
- Turfing
- Decking and Fencing
- Patios & Block Paving
- Raised Beds & Garden Design
- Irrigation Systems
- Pond repair and installation
- Greenwaste Disposal Services
- Leaf blowing & leaf removal
- Soft landscaping
- Bespoke garden design plans
Landscaping, disposal services and severely overgrown gardens must be quoted for seperately and will not fall under the hourly rates. Please contact us at bookings@grabagardener.com or call on 0333 305 7633 if you think you may require some quotation work and we will help to book this in for you.
- If your grass is over 1ft in height (and therefore too high for a lawn mower to go over without first strimming)
- If your garden hasn’t been maintained in over 6 months
- Or, if you have a large number of weeds in the garden that need to be removed
These would all be classed as overgrown gardens. For overgrown gardens we request a minimum 4 hour booking priced at £80. In the event the job is completed in less time, any full hours not utilised can be refunded or carried over. If you are unsure if your garden qualifies as overgrown, please send pictures to bookings@grabagardener.com .
We want to keep things as simple as possible so we offer a flat hourly rate for all maintenance tasks as described under “Pricing and Billing”. There’s no need to get a quote for maintenance work. All of our gardeners are highly experienced so they will be able to tackle any maintenance tasks you might have. After you enter your postcode the website will guide you on how long to book, but in the event that you need help with estimating the required time, please email us at bookings@grabagardener.com or call 0333 305 7633.
What we usually recommend is booking in a block of time; the gardeners are very efficient and will do as much as they can for the duration of the booking. If more time is required you can call the office and make another booking for another day. If the gardeners have time on the day, we can even take the additional payment over the phone or via the webiste and we can keep them on site. In the event that too much time is booked, that’s fine too! Your money is held securely and we always follow up after the job to see how it went. Any full hours that were not used can be refunded or even carried over to the next visit. Easy!
please call 0333 305 7633
In most cases we will send one gardener to carry out the work. In some locations we have gardeners who work in pairs, PLEASE NOTE: if we send two gardeners to a job then they will complete the number of hours booked in half the time because there is two of them. When you book online you are paying a fixed rate per man hour. For example, if you book 6 hours you are paying for 6 man hours, therefore if we send two gardeners the time on site will be 3 hours. Each gardener will work 3 hours so the job would total 6 man hours.