Most people think about garden jobs in spring and then quietly forget about them once summer’s underway. That’s actually a bit of a mistake, because August tends to work out well for fencing, decking and landscaping, and there are a few reasons why.
The rush has died down
March through June is when we’re busiest, everyone wants the garden sorted before the school holidays or before family come round for a barbecue, so the diary fills up quickly. By August that first wave has calmed off, which usually means we can get to your job sooner than we could have done two months earlier. If you’ve been waiting for a gap in the schedule to get a fence repaired or a new patio put down, this is often it. Have a look at fencing or patios and decking for what’s involved.
Weather still on your side
August round here isn’t always dry, but it’s reliably mild, and that matters more than people think. Ground conditions are good for digging, turfing and levelling, concrete and mortar cure properly in the warmer temperatures, timber treatments dry as they’re meant to. Try booking the same job for November and you’re dealing with cold, wet ground that slows everything down and makes the finish less predictable. If you want the job done properly, without weather getting in the way, August gives us that.
You still get to use it this year
A new deck, a tidied lawn, a repaired fence finished in August still gives you a good few weeks of decent weather to actually enjoy it. Book the same job for October and realistically you’re looking at spring before you get any use out of it. If you’d rather get value from the work now instead of waiting, August’s the sensible window. Customers using our garden maintenance service in particular notice the difference, a garden kept on top of through August heads into autumn in far better shape than one that’s been left.
Autumn prep really needs to start now
Every year, late September brings a flurry of calls asking for turfing, drainage work or fence repairs before winter sets in, and every year the answer’s the same, it would’ve been easier a month or two earlier. Ground that’s dry and workable in August turns heavy and difficult by late autumn. If your lawn needs re turfing or you’ve got drainage that floods every winter, our turfing and drainage team would much rather sort it now while conditions are still in your favour. Hedges are the same story, a trim in August keeps things tidy through to when growth naturally slows down, which our trees and hedges service can handle in a single visit.
Switching to composite before the wet months arrive
If you’ve been mulling over swapping timber for composite, August’s a decent time to actually do it. No painting, no staining, nothing to treat before the damp weather rolls in, and it holds up through autumn and winter without the upkeep timber demands. There’s more detail on our composite fencing and decking page if you want to weigh it up properly. Customers across Stockport, Cheadle and Wilmslow have been making the switch for a while now, mostly once they’ve dealt with rotten timber one too many times.
What waiting tends to cost
A fence panel left to rot through winter is rarely a like for like repair by spring, water gets into the joints, posts start leaning, and a straightforward panel swap in August has a habit of turning into replacing several bays including posts by March. Lawns are similar. A drainage problem ignored through the colder months tends to get worse with every heavy downpour, and a patchy lawn left through winter is a bigger re turfing job by spring than it would’ve been in August. None of this is about pressuring anyone into booking before they’re ready, it’s just that August tends to sit in a useful gap between the spring rush and the autumn scramble, and gardens dealt with now usually need less emergency work later.
There’s also less waiting around for materials in August compared to the peak of spring, when suppliers can be stretched thin because everyone’s ordering timber, gravel and turf at once. It’s a small thing but it does mean a quote in August tends to turn into a start date faster than the same quote in April.
Take a look at what customers across Greater Manchester and Cheshire have said on our testimonials page, then get in touch. Every job starts with a free site survey and a no obligation quote, so you know exactly what’s involved before anything’s booked in.
Call 0161 494 0469 or 07745 720463, or head to our contact page to get August sorted.