About Us: Your Specialist Firm for Garden and Landscape Construction in NRW

How we work: from your first message to handover

The quickest route to a price you can rely on is a look at the plot. That is why we do not guess over the phone but come out to you: the site visit is free and without obligation, even if you decide to go with another firm afterwards. On site we measure up, check the subsoil, the falls, the access and the space for a skip or a digger, and clarify whether any permits are needed – under your town's tree protection bylaw, for instance, or because a replacement planting will be required.

You then receive a fixed-price quote in plain English, with no jargon and no lump-sum catch-all items. While the work is going on we protect the lawn, the paving and the neighbouring property, keep materials and spoil together and tidy up every evening. Green waste, spoil, rubble and old fencing go with us and are disposed of properly; we hand the area back swept clean. At the end we walk over the result together – and where something has been newly laid we tell you what matters in the first few weeks, from rolling in new turf to topping up the sand in freshly jointed paving.

This is how a project usually runs with us:

• Enquiry by phone, WhatsApp or e-mail – ideally with a few photos and the rough measurements
• A reply as a rule within 24 hours, together with a suggested date for the free on-site visit
• Measuring up, advice on materials and checks on permits and buried services on site
• A fixed-price quote with clearly listed items and a realistic schedule
• Execution with our own machinery, protected neighbouring surfaces and a daily site clean-up
• Handover, waste disposal included, aftercare notes and, if you wish, a maintenance contract (Pflegevertrag) for afterwards

For private customers, homeowners' associations and commercial clients

A large part of our work is private gardens: the terraced-house garden in Wuppertal-Langerfeld, the sloping garden in Schwelm, the new driveway in Ennepetal, the porcelain stoneware patio in Düsseldorf-Benrath, the privacy screen in Meerbusch-Osterath or the complete new garden after an extension in the Cologne district of Rodenkirchen. What counts here is that the work gets done while you are at the office, that nobody trips over tools in the evening and that everything fits together at the end.

For property managers (Hausverwaltungen), homeowners' associations (Eigentümergemeinschaften) and commercial businesses we work to a different rhythm: fixed maintenance intervals for outdoor areas, hedge trimming before the bird nesting season protected by the Federal Nature Conservation Act (Bundesnaturschutzgesetz), leaf clearance in autumn, a winter service with documented call-outs to satisfy the legal duty to clear and grit (Räum- und Streupflicht), plus property and grounds maintenance. One contract, one contact, one invoice – and, whenever it is needed, the individual job on top: repairing a driveway that has sunk, a new fence around the bin store or a tree inspection before the storm season.

For private households it is worth taking a look at § 35a of the German Income Tax Act (§ 35a EStG): 20 per cent of the labour costs can be deducted directly from your tax bill – up to €4,000 a year for household-related services (haushaltsnahe Dienstleistungen) such as garden maintenance, hedge trimming or winter service, and up to €1,200 a year for tradesman services (Handwerkerleistungen) such as paving, patio construction, fencing or walls. We show the labour costs separately on every invoice, and payment is made by bank transfer so that your evidence for the tax office is watertight.

Machinery, materials and partner firms

We work with our own machinery and our own tools: a mini digger for excavation, levelling and clearance, a vibrating plate and rammer for building up the sub-base in layers, a cut-off saw and stone saw for clean cuts to size, chainsaws, hedge trimmers and mowers for maintenance work, a stump grinder for root stocks, and a tipper and trailers so that spoil and green waste leave your property straight away. Specialist kit that is only needed occasionally – a cherry picker, say, or a larger excavator – we hire in for the particular project and show transparently in the quote.

For materials we rely on regional trade suppliers, builders' merchants and quarries rather than DIY-store clearance lines. In practice that means frost-resistant concrete blocks and natural stone for paving and patios, 2 cm porcelain stoneware for the low-maintenance option, crushed stone and grit in defined gradings for the base course and the bedding layer, hot-dip galvanised and powder-coated twin-wire mesh panels for fences, drainage pipes, geotextile and soakaway crates for rainwater, and trees, shrubs and perennials in nursery quality. You see samples before we order anything – paving colours look quite different in a brochure than they do in your own yard.

• Our own machinery for earthworks, compaction, maintenance and haulage
• Specialist kit hired in per project and shown openly in the quote
• Materials from regional trade suppliers, with samples before ordering
• Partner firms only where they are genuinely needed on technical grounds – an electrician for the 230 V connection of your garden lighting, for example