Landscaping services, such as tree trimming and lawn mowing, are often used to keep your landscape looking tidy and attractive and help your plants grow and stay healthy. But did you know that regular landscaping services can also benefit your other landscaping elements, such as your driveway or walkways?
Here are a few of the ways that landscaping services can benefit your driveway.
1. Edging can keep roots from deteriorating pavement
Grass can start to creep over your asphalt or concrete driveway. If allowed to do so, the roots will start to sneak into tiny chips and cracks and grow, and their pressure can make cracks larger. Larger cracks could let water into the base of the driveway and facilitate water damage to the foundation of the pavement. Regular edging services can keep this from occurring.
2. Leaf blowing can help avoid stains and leaks
If you have trees overhanging your driveway, then the leaves may fall or drift onto the pavement. For some trees, this mostly happens in fall, but other trees tend to drop leaves, twigs, or other kinds of debris multiple times a year.
Leaves, nuts, and similar debris that are left on the pavement may cause stains, especially if the tree contains high levels of chemicals. The longer the leaves stay, the more chemicals can leach out, so having the leaves blown or raked away on a regular basis can help avoid this problem.
Leaves that stay plastered to an asphalt surface can encourage leaks as well because a clump of leaves keeps that spot wet, and water is an enemy of asphalt surfaces.
3. Mulch can help prevent erosion damage
Too much erosion around the edges of your driveway can cause water damage to its foundation, even if the driveway is made of concrete or asphalt. Landscape mulch can help you control erosion. For best erosion control, you will want to have your landscapers use a type of mulch that is heavyweight and large in size, such as river rock mulch. Most types of stone mulch, as well as some types of bark mulch, can help control erosion.
As you can see, landscaping services are not just to keep your plants looking tidy and healthy. Your driveway can also benefit when you take good care of your landscaping. Call a local landscaping service to schedule regular services and ensure your driveway stays clean and strong.
