Commercial Property Maintenance in Ajax

Ajax specifics

What Ajax properties need

A year-round contract in Ajax has to cover plaza and service-station retail along Harwood and Kingston Road, the Bayly Street employment corridor south of the 401, and a residential base that runs from the heritage streets of Pickering Village out to the newer subdivisions around Audley and north Salem. Ajax lawns split into two jobs. Pickering Village and the older streets west of Harwood have mature, tree-shaded turf with real depth to it. Audley and north Salem are young sod on tight builder's clay that browns off fast in mid-summer and needs a higher cut to hold anything at all. Ajax sits right on the lake, so a good share of its winter arrives as freezing rain or wet snow that sets up as ice overnight. Salt timing matters more here than plow horsepower, particularly on the Harwood and Bayly commercial frontages where the first customers arrive before the sun does. Those are two different problems on the same property, six months apart, and they are exactly where a split between a summer contractor and a winter one starts costing money — the plow damage nobody documented in February becomes an unexplained landscaping bill in April. The frontages along Harwood Avenue, Westney Road, Salem Road are where that shows up first, because they are what a customer sees.