DIY vs Professional Mulch: Which Is Better For Your Business?

If you own a commercial property, day care, school, or condo building, you probably need mulch. And while you know that new mulch improves your site’s function and appearance, you might be wondering if this is an area where you can save a few dollars by doing it yourself or rounding up some volunteers. Let’s look at how doing it yourself compares to having your mulch blown in by a professional.

Physical Effort

Installing mulch yourself requires hours of back-breaking effort. You and your helpers will have to shovel bulk mulch into wheelbarrows, wheel the mulch to the site, dump, and spread. In the Alabama heat, this quickly becomes unbearable. If your site is uneven, rocky, or on a hillside, it can also be dangerous to navigate with a full wheelbarrow of mulch.

Professional installation requires no physical effort on your part. In fact, blowing mulch requires very little physical effort for the installation crew. A two-person crew with a powerful truck can easily navigate through your property with a large, lightweight hose. The power of the truck’s blower spreads the mulch easily, even on hot days.

Time Needed

If you and your volunteers are installing the mulch yourself, you can probably spread about 50 cubic yards of mulch a day under the best conditions. For a small site, this wouldn’t be a problem. If your site is large, it could take you days to spread all of the mulch. Of course, this assumes your volunteers are willing to return several times to finish the job!

Professional installation crews with a blower truck can spread that same amount of mulch in under two hours. Even on large sites, crews can be in and out quickly, meaning less disruption for your property users. Kids won’t have to wait days for volunteers to finish their playground mulch. They will be swinging and sliding in just a few hours.

Labor Costs

Let’s say you’re not able to get the number of volunteers you need, so you decide to hire a crew to spread the mulch for you. Depending on the size of your project, you’ll need a large crew to get the job done. Just the hourly wages alone will add up quickly.

Our mulch experts won’t need as many people to complete your job. They’ll use mechanical power rather than physical labor. You can imagine how much you’ll save on labor costs.

Appearance

Mulch installed by hand can have an uneven appearance. Depending on your work crew’s tools and training, the mulch might be too thick in some places and too thin in others. It’s especially hard to coordinate a uniform appearance when you have a large site and dozens of workers.

Blown mulch is always uniformly and evenly applied to your site. With our installers professional equipment gets the best results so you can get the best use of your property. Think of the difference between paint applied with a brush and a professionally sprayed finish. The professional application definitely looks better.

Property Damage

Your DIY crew will have to do a lot of trampling back and forth to move the mulch around. There will be wheelbarrow tracks that might damage your lawn. And have you thought about the fences and other equipment you might have to move? It all adds up to additional work you’ll have to do to make your property look its best.

Our professionals can blow mulch directly from their truck without damaging your lawn or landscaping. They can put the mulch exactly where it needs to go by directing it with a lightweight hose. There’s no need to remove fences or equipment. Blown mulch can go anywhere!

A Clear Winner

If you need mulch for your commercial property, HOA, day care, or school, the choice is clear. Blown mulch installed by a GetMulch.com verified professional is worth the investment. Your landscaping will look better and your volunteers will thank you! We can connect you to the right crew for your job. Contact us for a referral today.