Hi everyone,
Attached is your weekly maintenance report with hopes that August brings some reprieve from the heat with some monsoon moisture and not just high winds!
Tree debris is one of our biggest challenges this time of year. We have pine trees, eucalyptus, and mesquite trees all dropping needles, leaves and seed pods. When you combine that with the wind we get on the leading edge of the haboobs or monsoon storms, it certainly adds to the cleanup challenge, especially if it was in a cycle area where we just worked and aren't scheduled back to for some weeks. Myself and Andrew are doing our best to get eyes on these eye sores and route the crew in order to complete their trim cycle work as well as debris cleanup. In an ideal world we would handle it the next time we are in that cycle, but we realize some areas need to be tended to more regularly in terms of tree and storm debris. We will certainly work diligently to make that happen.
As always, stay cool and hydrated and make it a great week!
Trim Cycle Rotations:
- Weed control remains a top priority, and our crew will continue to spray with their 5 gallon backpack and report if more help is needed from our spray tech division
- This time of year we see some difficult weed varieties that our normal herbicide applications have a hard time eradicating and may have to use some other herbicides. One example is thistle (which eventually turns into a tumbleweed). It is particularly ornery and tough.
- Routine shrub pruning continues in our trim cycle work as well as a detailed blowout of the same area and that is marked on your attached weekly report for your reference. Flower plants will be lightly trimmed for now so they don't become way overgrown and we try to preserve the spring blooms.
- You may see certain shrubs pruned and others not in the same cycle, as we try to let them bloom as much as possible with reason
Water Management:
- It is HOT so we are on a more frequent watering schedule as the daytime temperatures continue to increase and the days get longer.
- Grass area watering is at least 5 times per week right now with multiple start times in most cases. We try to keep turf watering outside of daylight hours as best we can to mitigate evaporation and there's also less wind during the night than daytime.
- If you notice evidence of heavy runoff or excessive watering, please inform us, as it may be a few days before our maintenance crew returns to the site.
After Hours/Weekend/Holiday Emergency Communications :
Call our Emergency number: 480-206-6536 ( **this number does not receive text messages**)
- If not answered, leave a detailed voicemail
- Name of caller with callback number
- Name of community
- Nature and location of the emergency, as specific as possible
- Follow phone call with email to both Brandon Ridenour and Andrew Roberts with same info as above: