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It depends far more on access, grading, drainage and base preparation than on the plants and pavers you can see. A patio on a flat lot with machine access and a patio behind a narrow gate on a slope are different projects at the same square footage. Ask for site preparation, base build-up and disposal as separate lines so bids become comparable.

Usually shade, compaction, drainage or the wrong grass for the conditions — not a lack of product. Turf needs more sun than most people assume, and areas under mature trees often do better as beds or ground cover than as perpetually failing lawn. A soil test and an honest look at light will tell you more than another treatment.

It depends entirely on whether you have cool-season or warm-season grass, and the two have effectively opposite calendars. Doing the right task in the wrong season is the most common wasted spend in lawn care. Your state extension service publishes a regional calendar, and it is the authority worth following.

Less often and more deeply than most people do, and early in the day. Frequent shallow watering produces shallow roots and a lawn that cannot cope with heat. Evening watering leaves foliage wet overnight and encourages disease. Check local restrictions first — many areas limit outdoor watering.

Often for retaining walls above a certain height, for work that changes drainage or grade, and for anything in an easement. Patios at grade frequently do not require one, but this varies by jurisdiction and HOA. A call to the building department settles it, and it is free.

Almost always the base. Insufficient depth of compacted aggregate, poor compaction, no edge restraint or water moving under the surface will move any paving regardless of how good the stone is. That is why the base specification — depth, compaction and edge restraint — belongs in the written scope.

They are usually a sound default. Plants adapted to local rainfall and soil generally need less water, less feeding and less replacement, which is a maintenance-cost argument as much as an environmental one. Native does not automatically mean maintenance-free, and it still has to suit the specific light and drainage of the spot.

For a whole-yard project, usually. A plan lets three contractors bid the same thing, prevents the sequence errors that force rework, and stops a yard becoming a series of unrelated purchases. For a single job like a lawn renovation or a fence line, it is generally unnecessary.

Dead limbs over a structure or path, large cracks, fungal growth at the base, sudden lean, or roots being disturbed by construction all warrant a look from a certified arborist. Avoid anyone who proposes topping a tree — reducing height by cutting through the crown damages it and produces weakly attached regrowth.

Fix soil and drainage. Builder’s lawns are frequently thin topsoil over compacted subsoil, and water often has nowhere sensible to go. Correcting both before planting is far cheaper than doing it around established beds, and it determines everything that follows.