As we prepare for the rainy season just before the coming winter months here in Maine, we would like to talk to you about your homes gutter system.
When your gutters and or your down spout are clogged, water gets backed up and starts to overflow. This can lead to some costly repairs down the road as the water runoff can cause damage to not only your roof as it backs up, but to your wall and foundation as well as the water runs down the exterior walls. The water can also at times get inside your home as well, causing even more damage to your interior walls.
Regular cleaning of your gutter system can help in preventing these costly damages down the road. I clean the gutters by hand, flush out the down spouts, bag and dispose of all the debris.
Call today for a FREE estimate, also ask us about minor gutter repairs.

Well its getting to be that time of the year again as the days of summer winding down heading into Labor Day Weekend, the days are getting shorter and soon the fall season will be be upon us, although some of the past few nights already seem like we are already there.

This being said, I am accepting new clients for the upcoming  2010/11 snow plowing season. If your in need of someone to either snow plow or snow blow your driveway and or paths, I would like talk with you.

Durgin’s Lawn & Landscape is a Fully Insured Company that you can count on to get the job done, as our growing list of valued customers will attest to. I also offer snow removal from roofs and decks, as well as the sanding/ salting of driveways and walkways.

My schedule is filling up already this year with new customers getting a jump start on the upcoming winter season by securing a spot with us, so call today to schedule a FREE estimate before we are booked up for the season.

I currently serve Norway, Paris and Oxford areas with snow plowing/ snow blowing services, but I will travel my regular service areas for roof raking and deck snow removal.

I have a few openings for fall cleanups, fall over  seeding as well as some openings for dormant seeding. If you would like to schedule a time for a fall cleanup for later in October early November, simply give me a call today. I realize some like to wait until next spring, but in reality it ends up causing more damage and costing more more in the long run with the spring cleanup, as the leaves end up matted into the turf and it actually takes longer to cleanup, versus a fall cleanup along with along with a quick spring cleanup.

We are also headed into that time of year when its a good time to overseed your lawn before the fall rains begin, giving the new grass seed to take root before going dormant. I also offer dormant seeding, overseeding your lawn prior to the winter season after a fall cleanup has been preformed, giving your lawn a chance to get going in the spring before the weed grass has a chance to. We will be offering this service along with new lawn and lawn renovation work from now until mid- September.

Other fall projects include, but not limited to: soil testing, adding top soil and gutter cleanings, as we head int the fall and winter months here in Maine.

I only use top quality grass seed with a low weed seed percentage, insuring your lawn the best possible start that it can have.

On a side note, if you have applied a weed and feed for the fall season, we will not be able to overseed your lawn, as it will kill of some of the new grass seed.

If you would be interested in any of these services you can use the contact us page or you can give me a call at (207)-739-9022.

I wanted to post a picture of my new truck after I got it lettered up on Monday afternoon. The whole process took around thirty minutes from start to finish. It came out awesome, this picture doesn’t really show the colors along with the 3D effects. The lettering really pops and when in the right light it looks translucent.

I finished this tree planting job here in Norway, Maine on Monday morning, along with a helper. We planted a total of eleven trees, which mainly consisted of hemlock and a couple of pine trees, two of which were planted along the lakeside along with two of the bigger hemlocks. The six other smaller hemlocks were mainly border trees and one large balsam fir was planted on a hillside as well.
The digging overall was pretty good, although the first hole we hit a small pocket ledge, but it broke up rather easily and went good from there. It took four hours to complete this project by the time we finished up with everything.

I’m writing this to let all of our valued lawn and landscape customers know that starting as of August 30th Down To Earth Lawn & Property Maintenance will be known as Durgin’s Lawn & Landscape. I have struggled with this decision for the past few months, nearly a year now and after investing countless hours of promoting and marketing my company name and logo over the past 2 years I have chosen to go forward with it.
The main reason for the change is due to the confusion that could arise, as three  other company’s servicing the the same service areas are using the same basic company name, Down To Earth. As we continue to grow in the lawn and landscape field, as well as in our service areas, I felt the name change would separate us from the other companies and protect my company’s reputation and good standing with our valued customers and thus eliminate us from any confusion among the 3-4 company’s vying for potential customers using basically the same company name.
This wasn’t an easy decision for me, but I felt it to be in the best interest for my company. This process is going to take some time as Down To Earth Lawn & Property Maintenance had a large web presence, along with many, many hours vested in local promotion.
Our phone number and address will stay the same. Things that will change, our email (the old ones will remain for a short time), online billing (it will remain with PayPal), along with a new web-site address. Once these changes have taken effect I will send out the new information to each of our valued customers.
I would like to ask that you please be patient as we go through this transition and if you have any questions and or concerns, you can simply contact me with them.

I received a call to do some yard work on a property located in Hartford Maine and took a ride over to the property to check it out and agreed to to the job. The job consisted of mowing of the lawn, which was around 3 feet tall and the cutting of some small trees along the house and barn as well as in front of the home and cleaning the trees and brush removal along the stonewall.

I did this one alone and it took me a full day to complete including the disposal of the grass clippings, wood from the trees and brush. I have attached some before and after pictures of the yard work that I preformed.

This season has been a time of growth for my lawn care business here in Western Maine, offering top quality service at reasonable rates have led to word of mouth referrals and new customers.

Providing lawn care, landscape installs/ maintenance, new lawns, lawn renovation work, tree work, and other yard work for both residential and commercial customers.

Here’s a couple of photos of two new lawns I added to our valued customer list.

Here are a couple of pictures of a bank owned property located here in South Paris Maine. I have been taking care of the lawn on the property doing the mowing, trimming and blowing down of the hard surfaces for a local bank.

Down To Earth services both residential and commercial properties, offering complete lawn care and landscape maintenance services here in Maine.

Down To Earth has a few more openings for lawn care here in Maine for the 2010 mowing season. If you would be interested in a free lawn care estimate, give us a call today at (207) 739-9022.

Also check out our services page to see a complete list of our services.