RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

Our comprehensive lawn care services are designed to meet each property's unique needs, ensuring that your outdoor space reflects your personal style and preferences. One of our core offerings is our professional lawn mowing services, where our skilled team employs precision and attention to detail to give your lawn a manicured appearance. Grass hand trimming can also be added at an additional cost.

Combining fertilizer and weed control (liquid herbicides) creates a powerful, two-in-one, "one-two punch" that nourishes grass for a lush, green appearance while eliminating weeds that steal vital nutrients, ensuring a healthier, more resilient lawn throughout the year. Our proven approach prevents weed competition and boosts turf density. 

Prices vary depending on property size, layout, past/current turf condition and specific requests.

Core aeration is the process of removing plugs of soil to alleviate soil compaction, enabling oxygen, water, and essential nutrients to effectively reach the root zone. These small holes, just a few inches deep, are typically created by piercing the ground or extracting small 'plugs' of dirt. Core aeration treatments are crucial for stimulating root growth and enhancing the infiltration of air, water, and nutrients into the soil system. 

When it comes to achieving the healthiest and lushest turf, you’re looking for every advantage you can get. Overseeding is one of the best professional tactics to grow healthy lawns, especially when the turf is heavily used. This technique involves spreading grass seed directly onto existing turf to enhance its health, resilience, and appearance. When overseeding is paired with core aeration and fertilization, the results are even more efficient. 

Spring lawn dethatching is the mechanical process of removing dead organic matter, clippings, leaves, etc; using mechanical power raking equipment with bagging capabilities.  Dethatching allows efficient water, air, and nutrient penetration.  

Dethatching is typically completed in early spring prior to or immediately after the first mowing of the growing season.

Effective fall leaf cleanup, along with regular lawn mowing services, keeps your residential property looking healthy and beautiful. While fall leaves and other natural materials might seem harmless, leaving them on your lawn too long can suffocate your grass and lead to moisture problems or fungus growth leading into the next growing season.

A retaining wall installation involves excavating a trench along the desired wall line, laying a compacted gravel base, and installing a drainage system behind the wall with perforated pipes, if applicable. 

After placing and leveling the first course of retaining wall blocks, additional courses are stacked progressively while backfilling with compacted soil behind each row. This process ensures proper alignment and stability to resist lateral soil pressure and hold back earth on a slope.  

Tree removal is the process of cutting down a tree, typically due to reasons such as it being dead, diseased, or posing a risk to property and people. This detailed process requires careful planning and execution to ensure safety and efficiency. While trees are vital to our environment, there are times when tree removal is the best option. 

Land clearing is the process of removing trees, shrubs, and other vegetation from a piece of land, which may include tree removal services. This process is often necessary to make the land suitable for development, agricultural use, or other aesthetic reasons. 

A general skid loader operator's work involves operating a compact, versatile piece of machinery to perform various tasks like digging holes, moving dirt and debris, trenching, leveling ground, and loading materials onto trucks. These tasks are essential not only for landscaping projects but also for supporting lawn mowing services and facilitating tree removal. 

At Oelkers Services, we know fencing and what it takes to do fencing right. When you hire our team for your project, whether it's fencing, lawn mowing services, tree removal, or winter snow removal, you can have peace of mind knowing that over 50 years of combined experience is behind your job. We have the skills and expertise to handle various situations, and after all this time, there aren’t many we haven’t dealt with before. We’re fully insured for your protection and ours, and we stand behind our work with a five-year workmanship warranty and manufacturer warranties.