Landscapers wrecking paint on side of our new house
 

Landscapers are chipping all the paint away with their weed whackers on one side of our brand new house! I'm sure it's not an isolated problem but short of the huge expense of putting shrubs along a 70' run are there less expensive solutions to stop this?

You can dig out a 6" to 8" buffer along the side, fill it with gravel or something pleasing to look at.

I ran a 15-18" border of pine bark around my house.

Not happening at my house. They are idiots, fire them immediately !

It's a good idea to have a buffer of any kind all around your house. Pea gravel, river rocks or even pine straw or bark is good.

If the grass grows right up against the house, the weed wacker is going to hit the house in order to get the grass. Nothing the landscaping can do about it.

Exactly right! The landscapers are not going to hand pull or use shears.

The best ideas are the 8" buffers of pea stones with a protective edging so it does not wash into your yard.

That's what we did. We have stone all the around.

Spray a barrier of grass killer.

Ragged edge
 

Sometimes spraying weed killer will leave a unsightly uneven edge. Even roundup is just a temporary solution. Bsrk or gravel here.:22yikes:

Honestly, I don't know why people are advising you to spend money to prevent what shouldn't be happening in the first place. Deans has been cutting our lawn for almost two years now and they don't chip my paint. My grass is up to the foundation on both sides of the house, believe me, I check.

what did you do at your other house before you moved here? maybe bring that crew here........wow:cryin2:

Grass killer may not be the most beautiful way, but it is the quickest until something else is done.

I'm with RickeyD on this one. You should NOT be experiencing damage from your lawn crew. I use MiCo and have never had a problem on my stucco wall.

Thanks for your comments.

Our yard people destroyed our down spouts.

DIY, like I have always done, and you won't have to worry about someone doing something wrong.

I also do mine, cutting trimming, weeding, landscaping, etc. I take pride in how my home looks both inside and out as many Villagers do. But I also understand that alot of people physically can't do the work anymore. Especially in the summer months. I hope that the numerous landscapers that do right by residents have more business than they can handle (almost)😊

As always the voice of reason !!!!

The OP
 

clearly doesn't want to (or can't) do their lawn. But you proved the point I was trying to make...if you can do the trimming without damaging siding, so should the company who does their lawn.

The physical part I can understand, as I wouldn't want my 90 y/o Mom doing physical work she can't do. What perplexes me is the people that are able to still do the physical work in the yard and, because it may now be below their stature in life, decides to have someone else do it and then ****es and moans all the time about the way it's being done. Sort of reminds me of people who thinks it's below them to sand divots, fix ball marks and rake bunkers; they expect the ambassadors or the golfers following them to do it and then complain about the condition of the courses (other subjects to discuss).

I hear ya. Takes all kinds I guess.

On all the houses here you should have a 8 to 10 inch buffer all the way around the house with preferably rock in it. Number one it keeps the Weedwhacker from getting it. Number two the ants and other critters don't like the mulch our rock as well. Number three it helps with the water drainage. It never fails weed whack vinyl or cords on the side of the house shows up in an inspection report on the home.

I did also, but they blow it out in the grass!

This really perplexes you?
 

No lawn company should be destroying siding, gutters, etc. Period.