Community Garden Maintenance in Mallorca
Shared gardens, pool surrounds and access roads in a residential community need a contract that an administrator can defend at the annual meeting. Describe the grounds once and we pass the request to companies on Mallorca that run community maintenance.
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What a community contract has to do that a private one does not
A private garden answers to one owner. A community garden answers to a president, an administrator and every owner who walks past it on the way to the car, and the contract has to survive all three. That means a fixed monthly fee, a written schedule of visits and jobs, and a way to show what was done. A company that keeps private villas tidy on an informal arrangement is often not set up for that, however good its work.
The grounds are different too. Communities on Mallorca tend to have large areas of lawn or ground cover, long hedges along boundaries and parking, palms and pines that need specialist attention once a year, an automatic irrigation system that nobody on the committee fully understands, and a pool surround that is the first thing an owner complains about. The contract has to cover all of it, and say which parts are excluded.
If you are the administrator, the request form is where you set the terms of the comparison: how many owners, how the grounds are laid out, what the current contract includes and what has gone wrong with it. Companies on our list that specialise in communities quote against that, and the quotes come back in a form that can go straight into a meeting pack.
What a community maintenance contract usually covers
- A fixed monthly fee with the visit schedule written down
- Lawn and ground cover mowing, edging and feeding
- Hedge and boundary trimming, including along parking and access roads
- Irrigation checks, controller programming and leak reporting
- Seasonal pruning of shrubs and small trees
- Weed control on gravel, paths and around the pool
- Leaf and debris clearance from the pool surround and communal terraces
- Green waste removed from the property after every visit
- Palm and pine work quoted separately, with the dates agreed in advance
- A short report after each visit for the administrator
Changing the company mid-contract, and what to ask for
Most community requests come after a year or two of the same complaints: the lawn is brown by July, the hedges are cut twice a year instead of four times, the irrigation runs at noon, and nobody can say when the gardener was last on site. The fix is rarely a cheaper company. It is a contract that names the visits and the jobs, so that the committee can check it against the invoice.
Ask each company for the number of visits per month by season, the jobs included in every visit, the jobs done on a cycle, and which work is excluded and quoted on request. Ask who turns up, and whether the same team comes each time. Ask how irrigation faults are reported between visits. Two quotes written to that shape can be compared line by line, which is what an owners’ meeting needs.
Timing matters. A contract that changes hands in spring gives the new company a garden at the start of its growing season, which is the fairest point to judge it from. Changing in August hands it a garden that has already suffered, and the first quarter goes on recovering what the previous contract lost. The page for property managers and communities covers the wider relationship; this one is about the maintenance contract itself.
How your request reaches a company
Mallorca Landscapers is a comparison service. A request for community maintenance goes to the landscaping companies on our list; they quote the work and carry it out, and any agreement is between you and the company you pick.
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Describe the job
Tell us the property, roughly what you want and where it is. Photographs and a rough plan help, though neither is required.
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We match it
The request goes to companies that work in your area and take on this kind of job at this size.
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They quote you
Each company contacts you directly with its own price, timing and approach. We do not set any of it.
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You compare and choose
Put the quotes side by side and take the one you want, or none of them. Using the site costs you nothing.
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Who signs the contract, the administrator or the community?
Usually the community, represented by its president, on a proposal the administrator has put to the meeting. The company quoting will be used to that and can supply the quote in a form that goes into the meeting documents. Any agreement is between the community and the company; the request through this site carries no obligation.
Can the request cover more than the garden?
The companies on our list are landscaping and garden maintenance firms. Many of them also sweep terraces, keep pool surrounds clear and clean access areas as part of the visit, and you can ask for that in the request. Pool water treatment, building cleaning and technical services are separate trades and are not what these companies quote for.
How many visits does a community garden need?
It depends on the planting. Lawns and clipped hedges want something every week or two from spring to early summer and less through the driest weeks; a dry garden of natives and gravel runs on far fewer. A company quoting properly will propose a schedule by season rather than a single number for the year.
What happens if the community is not happy with the work?
That is between the community and the company under whatever contract they sign, which is why the visit schedule and the included jobs should be written into it. A contract that names what is done on each visit can be checked; one that only says maintenance cannot.
Compare community maintenance quotes for your grounds
One description from the administrator, several fixed-fee proposals, and nothing to sign until the meeting has decided.