One zone soaked, another dead
A failed valve or a broken head. Common, cheap, and it wastes a lot of metered water before anyone notices because it usually runs before opening.
Keeps Needing Doing10,845 businesses licensed for it
Landscaping and grounds maintenance
Grounds maintenance is a curb appeal item until it becomes a code enforcement letter or a broken irrigation line running all night. Work covers regular mowing and bed maintenance, irrigation repair and controller programming, planting and replacement, seasonal cleanups, and clearing overgrowth from sightlines, signage and walkways. Irrigation is the part with a real cost attached, because a stuck valve at commercial water rates adds up fast.
Enter your ZIP to see the businesses listed for this trade nearest to your site, with their phone numbers.
- Free to searchno account, nothing to submit
- Public registersevery listing names its source
- License numberswhere the state publishes one
- Directyou call the business yourself
- Our estimate
- $150-$4,000
- Time on site
- 2-16 hrs
- Fault patterns covered
- 2
- Licensed for this trade itself
- 10,845
What landscaping and grounds maintenance costs
Most of these jobs land near $420. The full spread runs $150 to $4,000, and the gap between those two ends is diagnosis against replacement rather than one business being dearer than another.
What moves it: how much of the job is parts, whether the fault is found in the first hour or the third, access to the equipment, and the hour of the day you call. We never speak to the businesses listed here, so there is no rate card behind any of this. It is our own band for the category, and there is no regional index: the figure does not change with your metro.
| How soon you need it | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled visitBooked in advance, no urgency multiplier applied | $420 | $150 to $4,000 |
| Same dayOur band multiplied by 1.12 | $470 | $170 to $4,480 |
| Emergency calloutOur band multiplied by 1.35 | $565 | $205 to $5,400 |
Our estimate from national cost bands, not a quote from any business. Every row is the same band with the urgency multiplier the site applies everywhere else, so this table can never contradict the headline number. Ask for a written price before the work starts.
Who is licensed to do this work
In California the classification that squarely covers this is C-27 landscaping, and the register says who holds it. Every listing on this site shows the classification, the license number and the date we read it, with a link back to the register entry so you can check it against the state rather than against us.
Overlapping classifications exist and are labeled as overlapping rather than as a match: C-13 fencing and D-59 hydroseed spraying. A general building contractor may hold the job and subcontract the trade, which is a real answer and a different one, so the card says which of the two you are looking at.
One thing worth being plain about: CSLB classifications do not distinguish commercial work from residential. There is no separate commercial license to hold and no register field that would prove one. That is why this page describes the equipment rather than the contractor, and why nothing here says a business has been checked out. We read a public record on a stated date. That is the whole claim.
Before you pay for a callout
Two minutes of checks that sometimes end the problem
We would rather you did not need a callout at all. These are the checks that end the most calls for this fault.
Try a quick fix first
Some issues resolve without a truck roll. Two minutes now can save the callout.
- 1
Check the irrigation controller if your water bill jumped. A stuck valve or a schedule that reverted after a power cut can run for weeks unnoticed, and it is metered water.
- 2
Walk the sightlines from the road. Overgrowth hiding your sign or blocking a driveway view is both a lost customer and, in many cities, a code violation.
- 3
Ask whether green waste disposal is included. It is a common line item that turns up separately afterwards.
- 4
Get the schedule in writing rather than a monthly figure. What is included in a visit and how many visits a year is where landscape agreements differ most.
What the visit actually includes
- Mowing, edging and bed maintenance to an agreed schedule
- Irrigation check with a run through each zone
- Valve, head and line repair where a fault is found
- Pruning back from walkways, signage and sightlines
- Green waste removal
Diagnosis
How landscaping faults usually present
Written from how these faults actually present on a working premises, not from a manual.
Planting fails every summer
Species chosen for looks rather than for the site, or irrigation that does not reach them. Replacing the same plants annually is more expensive than changing the planting.
Listed for this trade
Businesses listed for landscaping
Read from public license registers, so there is no ranking here and no distance: this page has no location to measure from. Enter your ZIP to sort by who is nearest to your site.
By location
Landscaping and grounds maintenance near you
Local pages show which businesses are listed for that metro, how far out they sit, and the local conditions that drive demand.
Counted from the businesses we have imported for each metro center inside a 25 mile radius, and counting only those whose own license classification names this trade. General contractors licensed widely enough to take it on and subcontract it are excluded here, and still appear in a search. A metro reads “none yet” until we load a register that covers this trade there.
All coverage areasQuestions owners ask
Landscaping FAQs
Short, specific answers. If yours is not here, ask the business you call before you agree to the visit.
Is landscaping licensed in California?
C-27 landscaping is a real CSLB classification, and businesses holding it are listed here. Straightforward mowing and garden maintenance does not require it, so plenty of legitimate maintenance companies hold no license and do not appear on the register.
Who is responsible in a leased unit?
Grounds are frequently common area maintained by the landlord and recharged. Check before you contract your own, because you may be paying twice.
Can irrigation repair happen while we are open?
Yes, most of it. It is outdoors and it does not affect trading, which makes it one of the easier jobs to schedule.
Related work
Often booked in the same visit
Batching jobs into one mobilization is the cheapest way to buy this kind of work.
CleaningNightly and weekly janitorial, restrooms, floors, glass and the deep clean before an inspection.from $140Pressure washingSidewalks, entrances, dumpster pads, drive-throughs, awnings and building faces.from $200Snow removalLot plowing, walkway clearing, de-icing and the contract you sign before winter.from $150WinterizingIrrigation shutdown, exposed pipe and backflow protection, heat trace and the pre-season heat check.from $180
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Need landscaping sorted?
Search your ZIP to see the businesses listed for this trade nearest to your site, with the license numbers and phone numbers we hold, then call them yourself.
- Cost to search
- Free
- Account needed
- None
- Who you call
- The business