Striping grass gives a professional look to your customer’s lawn.
With the simple addition of a striping kit to your commercial lawn mower (and a little practice), you can turn your customer’s lawn into a visual masterpiece.
A basic "back and forth" striping pattern.
After the addition of a striping kit to your lawn mower, striping is attained with directional cutting. Directional cutting allows the striping kit on your lawn mower to bend each blade of grass in the direction of the cut. Grass bent toward the viewer appears darker than grass bent away from the viewer. Stripes are solely dependent on direction of the bend. Individual stripes have nothing to do with length of cut, different types of grass on each cut, or fertilizer applied in a pattern. However, length of cut and type of grass will change the intensity of the stripes. Striping gives a visual appeal to a lawn that is unattainable with concentric perimeter cutting.
Striping lawns as part of a commercial lawn care business makes your lawns look professionally manicured. Some lawn Care customers have been known to pay as much as an additional 50% to 100% of a basic grass cutting job for a striped lawn depending on the complexity of the striping pattern. Your results will vary but it shouldn’t hurt your company’s reputation to add striping services for those customers who are willing to pay extra for it. Additionally, you should notice more potential clients stopping to ask you for estimates (and advice) when they see the spectacular job you’ve done on their neighbor’s lawns.
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