No matter whether you’re managing commercial or residential properties, snow removal is a chore. Professional snow removal services can be a great way to save time and hassle. Scheduling salting, parking lot clearing, ice removal—these services can save you time and money, especially when your business or Home Owner’s Association requires your focus.
Though these services provide significant value, it’s not easy to know what to look for in a snow removal service when managing your property. Maybe they have experience but are difficult to communicate with and are unresponsive to billing questions. Perhaps they’re communicative and prompt but don’t get the job done. Maybe their services just cost an arm and a leg.
At Lifestyle Outdoor, we understand HOAs and commercial facilities’ frustrations with property maintenance contracts while tackling property care projects. After all, not all services are created equal. It can be challenging to navigate finding a service that does the work you need and works well for you, and that’s where we can help.
Comprehensive Property Care with Lifestyle Outdoor
The name Lifestyle Outdoor may be new, but we are bringing decades of experience into HOA-focused landscaping and lawn care. We have been around long enough to know how to do HOAs and maintenance-provided communities the right way. We’re here all year to make sure your community is beautiful and well cared for.
Lifestyle Outdoor is proud to offer snow removal services in partnership with Rose Property Maintenance, an ASCA-C snow contractor with 18 years of experience. That’s why when we say we have the information you need to know about hiring a Kansas City snow removal company, you can trust that we know what we’re talking about.
Unlike most landscape companies that “also do snow,” our partnership with Rose Property Maintenance gives us the expertise of a snow removal company in addition to our expertise in landscaping and lawn maintenance. This ensures we get the job done right all year ’round. That’s why we’re confident when we tell you that our expertise makes us a verifiable authority on all things snow removal in Kansas City.
So, read on to learn the 3 critical traits to look for when turning to a Kansas City snow removal company!
1. Expertise
The most important trait to look for in a Kansas City snow removal company is, of course, experience. This may seem obvious at first glance but is actually quite difficult to identify. Many lawn care businesses and snow removal providers do so on the side, and it’s an ancillary service to their primary business or the major services they offer.
As a result, though they’ve provided winterization services for years, it’s inefficient, costly, or even done incorrectly. It’s important that any snow removal company or winterization service you turn hasn’t just done their work for a long time but has done it well for a long time.
“So,” you may ask, “how can you tell which snow removal companies do and don’t have meaningful experience?” The answer lies in the services they provide and the thoroughness of their work. We know from experience that a high-quality snow removal service requires organization, attention to detail, and prompt response to weather conditions.
Equally important, though, is that their experience relates to your HOA’s or business’s needs. They should know your priorities and how to best meet the needs of your property. If they don’t understand the liability issues posed to commercial businesses by an incomplete snow-removal job, they’ll wind up costing you money in the long run.
Winterization and Snow Removal are important for HOAs and businesses. You deserve a snow removal company that can tackle Kansas City winters while providing expert care to your property.
The Value of Snow Removal for Businesses
Winterization and Snow Removal are important for HOAs and businesses. After all, it helps mitigate the impact snow and inclement weather have on your properties. In fact, some estimates claim that billions of dollars in revenue are lost each year due to snowstorms and winter weather.
So, it’s essential to recognize how to protect the operation and success of your business against the elements. Unconvinced? Some of the ways professional snow removal companies can contribute to your business include:
- Saves Time. Having a snow removal service to clear your sidewalks, parking lots, and public walkways saves you time and hassle. You don’t want to have to waste valuable time and manpower shoveling or laying salt. With a professional snow removal company, you and your employees can focus on what’s important: running your business.
- Improves Accessibility. Snow and ice can make it hard for you, your employees, and your customers to access your business. A professional snow removal company can save you the hassle. It makes sure you never have to shut down or worry about easy access to your business.
- Minimizes Liability. Cleared sidewalks and parking lots are important for allowing customers and pedestrians to move around. If someone falls and injures themselves on your property as a result of ice and snow, it may result in you being held liable for the damages. You can minimize your liability risk with regular snow removal!
- Saves you Money. In Kansas City, property owners can face a fine for not clearing their sidewalk within a “reasonable time” after a snowfall. A reliable, regular service will save you time and help you avoid any fines associated with clearing snow and ice.
In heavy snow conditions, don’t add to your workload and stress by taking on snow removal in addition to everything else you already do for your business.
Snow & Ice Removal
As any property owner in Kansas City can tell you, snow removal is never just removing snow; it’s a matter of clearing snow and tackling ice formation. Snow removal companies in Kansas City that don’t offer dual snow clearing and ice removal services aren’t a dependable solution to your winter woes.
But a real expert snow removal company makes sure that this process is fast, efficient, and requires minimal distraction for you. If you have to walk your snow removal service through everything your property needs every time you need them, you might as well be doing it yourself.
That’s why at Lifestyle Outdoor, we make sure that before your day begins, your surfaces will be clear. Passable is the bare minimum. To ensure we’re always ahead of the weather, we partner with the local weather service to have up-to-date weather details and preempt the worst snowfalls and melting periods. This allows us to provide your properties with expert removal and preventative care once the last flake falls.
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We also salt a property multiple times to ensure that our ice prevention is effective. Both throughout the night, and for the duration of a freezing spell. To make sure we’re never unprepared, we store 3,000 tons of salt on-site & several hundred pallets of Ice Melt products. Additionally, we have Eleven material/equipment depots spread throughout the city. We also employ a state of the art Salt Brine Liquid production facility capable of making 5,000 gallons of brine per hour. Rest assured, we can always provide your properties the service they need in a timely fashion. Our response time is second to none, and our team 250-man winter care team is always ready to provide you with shoveling and salting services.
2. Communicative
The second important trait to look for in a Kansas City snow removal company is how easy they are to communicate with. Invariably, there will be a snowfall that you can’t plan for. When that happens, you need to be able to depend on your snow removal service to clear up and care for your HOA or commercial property.
If you can’t get in touch with them when you need them most, it can make operating your business or managing your property next to impossible. You should always be able to trust that when you call, they’re picking up.
Even worse, perhaps you have an operational question, concerns about future snowstorms, or a billing inquiry and can’t give anyone to follow up or give you a straight answer. A snow removal company that you can’t count on to be communicative and responsive to your needs will only make the struggles of winter worse.
Working with a snow removal company that is communicative and engaged in your business will make navigating winter easier. And, by extension, the operation of your business safer and more efficient.
3. Detail-Oriented
The final trait you should be looking out for when selecting a snow removal company to care for your commercial property or HOA is whether they are detail-oriented or not. You might be thinking that snow removal and winter maintenance are no-brainers; after all, who needs to be careful about shoveling snow? Well, effective snow removal and winterization are all about the tiny details. Any professional snow removal company who says otherwise doesn’t know what they’re doing.
For example, did you know salting can weather your sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways? If you’re not careful, it will damage your property. This will cost you money down the line when you have to replace and repair your walkways and driveways.
At Lifestyle Outdoor, we never use traditional Icemelt. Instead, we use magnesium chloride to prevent ice from forming and preserve your sidewalks and parking lots long-term. Small decisions like the type of ice prevention used are all optimized to save you money in the long run.
Additionally, we make sure to use rubber or polyurethane-tipped shovels instead of traditional plastic or metal; you never have to worry about Lifestyle Outdoor workers damaging your sidewalks and driveways. We make sure everything we do, down to the smallest detail, works to better your property.
When providing winter care for properties, the little details matter. Any Kansas City snow removal company you turn to should know how to best care for your HOA or business.
Winterization
The service that requires significant attention to detail is property winterization. Caring for a property during winter requires understanding all the ways winter can impact land and utilities. With all the little details that go into caring for an HOA in winter, it can be a struggle to find reliable winterization services. Especially one that fits the needs of a community. That’s where Lifestyle Outdoor stands above the rest. As Johnson County’s premier HOA winterization service, we know and are prepared to meet the winterization needs of any homeowners association.
There are several things we do to prepare your HOA community for winter. With cold weather and winter, precipitation comes a dangerous freeze-thaw cycle that wreaks havoc on soil, plants, concrete, and pipes. We make sure to spread nutrient-rich fertilizers before winter to preserve your valuable landscaping features from impending cold and weather. We also manage winterization for the irrigation systems, pumps, and controls for the entire HOA, making sure no freezing or thaws damage your properties’ pipes.
Lifestyle Outdoor also makes a point of assessing properties before wintertime to find possible areas for preventative care. These services include:
- Clearing gutters
- Preventative Arbor Care for safety
- Replacing landscaping features
- Repairing external lighting systems
- Repotting plants for wintertime care
- Removal of pest dens and nests
We ensure that your HOA receives comprehensive service, with no details forgotten and no boxes left unchecked.
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Lifestyle Outdoor Provides the Winter Care Services Your Property Needs
If you find yourself in need of any winterization or snow removal services, turn to Lifestyle Outdoor. We’re the best landscaping and lawn care company in Kansas City. We offer snow removal services in partnership with Rose Property Maintenance, an ASCA-C snow contractor with nearly 20 years of experience. We are the premier winter experts for your HOA or commercial business!
Lifestyle Outdoor offers HOAs an unbeatable service with our HOA-focused landscaping and lawn care solutions. Our years of experience, commitment to building relationships, and dependable quality are why we’re the number one partner in all things HOA property maintenance.
Reach out to learn more about the landscaping, lawn care, and winter services we provide or get a quote with our online quote tool. Discover the difference that THE white-glove service with a green thumb can make for your property today!