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09/30/2014

Commercial landscaping and property maintenance services | Southbury, CT

Commercial Landscaping and Property Maintenance Services - Southbury, CT Have you taken the time to assess the condition of the property of your commercial business lately? Many Connecticut businesses overlook the importance of maintaining beautiful surroundings for their business, and do not realize how much damage can occur due to foot traffic, harsh seasonal elements and pest issues. Many Southbury and surrounding area businesses choose to hire a professional commercial landscaper to create a picturesque property, which will help them attract more customers and add a more professional touch to the appearance for their business. If your business has the property space available, you should capitalize on the potential rewards that come with hiring a Connecticut commercial property maintenance company to maintain your real estate.

Some of the benefits of hiring a commercial landscaper include:

Helps create a loyal customer base. Commercial landscaping can be a sound investment, chiefly for many Connecticut restaurant owners and retail shops. Research has indicated that customers are more likely to spend time shopping in an area that contains trees and garden features. This can be extremely useful in keeping customers hanging around your shopping district in the summer months, when your customers are need of a cool place to relax in the shade.

Allows yourself more time to concentrate on your business. As enjoyable working outdoors can be during the Spring and Summer months, creating a professional landscape for your business is an extremely time consuming and strenous task. As a business owner, you understand that time is money and by hiring a professional landscaper to make your dream a reality, you will have more time to spend on making your business successful.

Receive timely and consistent service. When you hire the commercial property maintenance experts at Elite Property and Fence, we will ensure that your lawncare and landscape needs are taken care of in a prompt and consistent manner. A landscape professional can be assigned to your business and will visit your business on a recurrent basis to maintain your property. We are landscaping experts who take great pride in our work and we will ensure that your lawn and garden will be consistently flourishing throughout the year.

Protect your employees from injury and your business from liability. It is widely known that as a business owner, you could potentially get sued for any personal injury that has occured from vistors on your property. Hiring a commercial landscaping company to clear any debris or seasonal hazards that can cause harm, will help reduce the legal liabilities that you could incur and potentially lower your property insurance rates.

Commercial Landscaping and Property Maintenance Services - Southbury, CT With the assistance of a licensed commercial landscaper in Connecticut, you can embody your own ideas in your business property and make it a much more appealing environment for your employees and customers. If you are in search of a commercial landscaping company that will understand your needs and work closely with you to create a beautiful and professional landscape for your Connecticut business, contact Elite Property and Maintenance today for a free consultation. We offer customizable landscaping packages that will help you keep your property flourishing throughout the year. Give us a call at (203) 262-0247 or get in touch with us through our contact page.

Elite Property & Fence, LLC. provides landscape maintenance and design, fence installation, property maintenance services. We service area includes the following towns and surrounding areas in Connecticut: Southbury, Middlebury, Woodbury, Roxbury, Brookfield, Watertown, Fairfield, Danbury, Stamford, and Oxford. Contact us today for a FREE Consultation!

07/15/2014

Benefits of Hiring a Property Maintenance Company | Southbury, CT

Property Maintenance Services - Southbury, CT The image of the exterior of your business office is an important design element that is consistently overlooked by many companies in the Southbury area. As a business owner, investing in a commercial landscape design is something that should be a top priority. For many reasons, you want to make the right impression on visitors and potential new clients. We have complied a list of some of the most important advantages of hiring a professional property maintenance company to manage your Connecticut business property.

A landscape maintenance service plan can take care of the tedious landscaping tasks, which will give you additional time to focus on your working responsibilities. Your property will be maintained in a professional and consistent manner so you will never have to be concerned.
Elite Property and Fence employs experts who have many years of experience in lawn and property management. We know how to create sustainable landscapes and ensure that your plants will remain healthy and happy throughout their entire life-span.
As a business owner, you understand that the more comfortable you can make a potential client feel in your working environment, the greater advantage you will have on closing the sale. If your lawn is overgrown or your trees and shrubs are not being maintained, you will be setting a negative impression. When you have the professional landscaping services of Elite Property and Maintenance, you can rest assure that your property will be maintained in a prompt and diligent manner.

Elite Property & Fence, LLC. service area includes the following towns and surrounding areas in Connecticut: Southbury, Middlebury, Woodbury, Roxbury, Washington, Watertown, Oxford. Contact us today for a FREE Consultation!

06/30/2014

Improve the look of your property by installing a stone wall | Southbury, CT

Stone Wall Installation - Southbury, CT
If you’re looking for ideas to improve the look of your yard this summer, you may want to consider adding stone walls to your landscaping. Stone wall landscape design typically will fall into two categories: functional retaining walls or decorative freestanding walls. The functional retaining walls are typically utilized to hold back soil or to level out a slant on the property. The decorative freestanding walls increase overall curb appeal, mark property lines or outline patio areas and serve as seating.

Walls in general are a very versatile part of any lawn or hardscape. When installing a stone wall on your property, you should consider some of the following stone wall concepts.

Raised Gardens or Planters: If enjoy building and maintaining a garden on your property, you can build a stone retaining wall to encompass and maintain the garden. It not only allows you to get just the right soil mix for healthy plants but also reduces back strain, because you don’t have to bend over so far to tend it. The natural stone walls also look great and improve the curb-appeal of your Connecticut property.

Retaining Walls: Building a retaining wall on a slope can help prevent erosion and runoff, define a new garden area, and create outdoor rooms and pathways. Designing a retaining wall carefully will mean the difference between a planned, aesthetically-pleasing addition for your Southbury, Connecticut property and an unstable wall that creates more problems than it solves.

Accent Walls: Accent walls are used to break the yard into smaller, more manageable spaces and to create privacy barriers. Whether for aesthetic appeal or privacy, accent stone walls can be a great enhancement to any property. They offer a distinctive look to a landscape with a very important purpose.

Whatever types of stone walls you plan to install in your landscapes, you can count on our professional stone landscape designers and expert masons to help you bring out the very best in your yard.

05/27/2014

Patio and Outdoor Living Area Design and Installation in Connecticut

Proper project planning is one of the top priorities for Elite Property and Fence, LLC. We understand that outdoor living spaces easily become the most popular area of your Connecticut home and can potentially yield one of the highest returns on investment. If you’re looking for an outdoor retreat where you can connect with nature or an elaborate space built for serious outdoor entertaining, Elite Property and Fence of Southbury, CT can build a patio to fit your home, lifestyle and budget.

Choosing the right company that has landscape construction knowledge about how a project should be properly built from beginning, middle, and end is crucial. We can build patios to tailor to nearly any shape, size, color or pattern you can imagine. There are countless advantages to adding an outdoor patio or entertainment area to your Litchfield county home such as:

Increase property value/curb appeal – A new patio will potentially increase the value of your home and make it much easier to sell.
Expand your living space – Adding an outdoor patio will be giving you and your family much more room by adding a new living space to your home.
Lower your energy bill – By cooking outside in the summertime, you will be lowering the temperature of your house, thus reducing the amount of energy you spend on cooling down your house.

Professional patio installation to your home is an investment you and your family will want to be able to enjoy through the duration of owning your house. By hiring the expert patio and outdoor installation experts at Elite Property and Fence, your outdoor patio area will be as beautiful ten years from now as it is when we conscruct it. Contact us today for a FREE consultation.

05/01/2014

Connecticut Landscaping and Gardening Tips for May

May is the perfect time to begin your garden planting and add shrubs to the landscape of your Connecticut home. Here at Elite Property and Fence, we recommend that you follow these tips to ensure your garden and shrubs have optimal growing conditions:

When you’re sure the danger of frost is gone, plant tender vegetables and annual flowers, such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, petunias, marigolds, zinnias and celosia. It’s also time to plant tender summer bulbs, such as callas, dahlias, caladium and gladioli.

Early May is a good time to fertilize lawns and reseed bare patches. To determine how much fertilizer and lime to apply, have your soil tested by a professional landscaper.

Add a fresh layer of mulch to your garden. You should do this as early in the month of May as possible before a lot of your plants start peaking through the ground.

Now is the time to start feeding your plants. When applying a granular fertilizer it is best to work it into the soil. Healthy well-fed plants are last to be attacked by insects and disease.

Elite Property and Fence has an experienced team of landscape professionals in Connecticut who specialize in landscape design, installation, and maintenance. We are your one stop shopping expereince for landscape design and installation in Connecticut.

04/14/2014

Tree Removal Specialist in Southbury, CT

Preventive tree service can reduce risk of tree damage and emergency tree services. Have your limbs pruned or trimmed properly. Tree limbs should be trimmed back away from the house and balanced. Proper tree trimming will increase the health and safety of your trees and property.

Tree pruning provides a variety of benefits to your trees and landscape:

Health: Our tree pruning services include the removal of diseased, broken, or dead branches on mature trees and young trees alike for tree protection. This prevents decay-producing fungi from penetrating and infecting other areas of your tree. The removal of live branches is occasionally necessary to allow increased exposure to sunlight and circulation of air within the canopy.
Appearance and Restoration: Tree pruning for appearance and restoration is essential for maximizing the beauty of formal plantings and to assist with landscape maintenance. In particular, we advocate aesthetic tree care for mature trees when the characteristic form of your trees has deteriorated.
Safety: Tree pruning can protect against storm damage and the danger of falling limbs. This is particularly a concern for trees along pedestrian paths, driveways, and surrounding buildings. Also, we recommend pruning trees with low-hanging branches in certain areas in order to eliminate interference with pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

Call today for a complimentary brush clearing or chainsaw work consultation from Elite Property’s fully trained professionals.

04/01/2014

Lawn Mowing Techniques: Mulching vs. Bagging

It’s a continuous debate when it comes to lawncare. Do you mulch your lawn grass clippings or bag them? Ask just about any professional and you’ll receive a variety of answers and reasons for each person’s choice. Each option comes with advantages and disadvantages you should consider. As a Connecticut landscaper’s, we have complied pros of both options:

Lawn mowers on the market today make mulching your grass clippings much easier than it used to be. A good mulching lawn mower will cut your grass clippings into small enough pieces to benefit your yard without causing problems. Allowing the grass clippings to sit on the lawn helps the grass retain moisture and puts valuable nutrients into the soil!

Mulching is considered a “green” option as well because you aren’t putting valuable organic material into the landfill. In fact, many cities prohibit dumping grass clippings with the trash.

Bagging your lawn clippings didn’t really become popular until the development of gas-powered mowers with bag attachments came along. These mowers often produced larger clippings that didn’t settle as easily into the lawn but rested on top of the lawn instead often resulting in poor aesthetics and excessive clean up. Bagging clippings will fully prevent the development of this lawn problem.

Raking and bagging clippings from time to time especially in wetter months can be beneficial in the Northeast to avoid poor quality cut. You may also want to bag if you have an older lawn mower.

03/24/2014

Connecticut Spring Cleanup Tips – Mulching and Pruning

Mulching around plants and trees, and pruning are two important methods you can utilize to keep your Litchfield County landscape beautiful during the spring and summer Connecticut months.

Mulching helps preserve water and regulate the temperature in your soil but it also prevents the growth of weeds, protects soil from compaction, cuts down on erosion, retains moisture, feeds your soil and provides insulation for plant roots from extreme heat and cold .

Most Connecticut gardeners and landscapers know that soil health is one of the main building blocks of a successful property and garden. The mulch in your garden breaks down over time and adds organic matter to your garden.

Pruning will allow your trees and plants to gain more sun exposure, which invigorates them by stimulating the growth of buds, leaves and branches. Proper pruning practices minimize disease, remove unsightly dead material, controls growth, rejuvenates plants, and helps plants develop thicker foliage and more flowers.

Pruning provides a variety of benefits to your trees and landscape:

Health – Our tree pruning services include the removal of diseased, broken, or dead branches on mature trees and young trees alike for tree protection.
Appearance and Restoration – Tree pruning for appearance and restoration is essential for maximizing the beauty of formal plantings and to assist with landscape maintenance.
Safety – Tree pruning can protect against storm damage and the danger of falling limbs. This is particularly a concern for trees along pedestrian paths, driveways, and surrounding buildings.

Call today for a complimentary tree pruning or mulching consultation from Elite Property and Fence’s fully trained professionals.

02/15/2014

The Importance of Dethatching Your Lawn

In Connecticut, dethatching is a lawn maintenance service that should be performed at least every other year. At Elite Property & Fence, we have the experience and tools that allow us to get to the root of your dead, dull grass leaving the healthy, vibrant grass room to grow and expand ultimately leaving you with that luscious green yard you’ve always wanted.

There are different ways Elite Property can prevent and control thatch buildup in your lawn, we will combine the following techniques in our lawn maintenance and process.

Core aerating your lawn is an excellent way to control thatch, as it removes plugs that also contain thatch. Plugs from a healthy soil contain microbes that breakdown thatch and turn it into nutrients for the soil. It’s like a mini composting system for you lawn.

We will water your lawn deeply but infrequently. This will encourage deep root growth and will also help cut down on thatch. Shallow watering can create shallow rooting. Basically, the roots will grow closer to the source of water. Over watering or fertilizing can also lead to thatch build up, so give it only what it requires.

Another way we help control thatch is by applying a thin layer of compost or topdressing to your soil each year. The compost will feed the soil with nutrients while breaking down the thatch.

Power raking is another technique we utilize because its a great way to clean up winter debris to give your lawn a boost for the spring growing season.

02/01/2014

Home Fence Installation in Connecticut

Homeowners in Connecticut install fences for many reasons. It can be a need for backyard privacy in a busy neighborhood or it could be because a pool was just installed in the backyard and a fence is required by code.
Do it yourself house projects are either a great money saver, or a colossal disaster. Even the simplest tasks can become an issue if the proper research and planning have not been done.

Most Connecticut homeowners think that installing their own wood or aluminum fence will be much easier and cost efficient in comparison to hiring a professional fence contractor.

When homeowners decide to install fences on their own, there are some common mistakes that are made that can affect how the final project looks. To avoid making mistakes on your installation project, you should become familiar with some of the common errors that happen when putting up a fence so that you can avoid them in your next project.

If you fancy yourself a craftsman and decide to install your own fence, the professionals at Elite Property & Fence, LLC. in Roxbury, CT want to help you avoid these common installation mistakes.

Improperly measuring the fence layout. Don’t just eyeball it and start setting up posts.
Installing untreated lumber. If a wood fence in Connecticut is not treated then it will most likely rot and need to be replaced.
Installing posts without using proper leveling tools. All you need is a standard level or a plumb bob. Uneven posts will affect the integrity and stability of the fence.
Installing weak gateposts. Your gatepost needs to be thicker and heavier than the other posts in order to support the weight of the gate.
Installing a gate that is not wide enough. Think of the widest object you might need to move through your gate before installing the posts.
Installing insecure footings on fence posts. If the footings are not solid and sturdy then the fence will not be as secure. The fence will not last as long as it would have if footing had been installed properly.
Ignoring a slope. Slope installation is tricky and best left to an experienced fence contractor for proper installation.

Fence installation is a very complex process. If you don’t want to deal with the hassle of installing your wood, vinyl, chain link, post and rail, or aluminum fence in Connecticut, contact the experienced professionals at Elite Property & Fence LLC. Each of our fences is custom design to blend into the contour of your landscape. Call us today at (203) 262-0247 for a free estimate on your next fencing project.