Yard Cleanouts in Ormond Beach, FL

What does a yard cleanup include?

A yard cleanout starts with a look at what stays and what goes. You point out the palms and shrubs you want to keep, and we clear around them. Overgrown shrubs and weedy vines come out of the beds, along with any dead or dying plants.

Where the lawn has thinned out or filled with weeds, the old sod comes up. Old mulch and rock come out of beds that weeds have taken over. Fresh topsoil then goes in where the ground sits low or bare.

Landscape cleanup before new sod goes down

New sod needs clean ground under it. The UF/IFAS Extension guide on preparing a Florida lawn starts with cleanup. It says to remove brush, large roots, rocks, weeds and old tree stumps. It also calls for a soil test before planting, which the extension's soil lab can run.

When an old rock bed turns into lawn, the rock has to come out. Stones left in the final grade should be golf ball size or smaller, the guide says. Old wood mulch comes out too. The guide says wood chips belong on top of the soil, since mixed in they can tie up nitrogen.

Topsoil then brings the ground back to grade, with room left for the thickness of the sod. Walks and driveways should end up level with the final grade or a little above it, the guide adds. If water stands in the yard after rain, that calls for yard grading and drainage before the sod goes down. Palm Coast's building page says a Lot Regrading Permit is required when tillers or other heavy equipment remove old sod.

Who hauls yard cleanup debris in Ormond Beach?

Ormond Beach picks up bagged yard waste and hand piles from residents on Wednesdays. Larger piles go on the claw truck's schedule, which the city says can take up to a week.

That pickup is for yard debris that residents make themselves. A city ordinance makes a contractor haul off its own job's yard waste, at its own expense. So the debris from our yard cleanouts leaves with us on the dump trailer.