Would you Lend a Stranger/Neighbour Your Lawnmower?

basmic

Strimmer for £23.99: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-6282.aspx

Lawnmower for £19.20: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-3920.aspx

Total cost - £43.19 - not bad if they last you just 3-4 years.

Splash out £43 and stop showing your street up! Attack the worst with the strimmer, then polish it off with the mower.

lil_me

If you don't want to get the landlord to do it companies do gardening including regular maintainence. My partners Grandma pays £10 to get 2 lawns cut once a fortnight. They use petrol lawnmowers and strimmers so no access needed.

Me yes I would allow someone to use mine if I didn't think it would cause damage. A lawn not cut for one year would damage my mowers, the electric and the petrol one.

To store one there is small lockable storage systems you can get for gardening equipment as over time grass cutting could work out expensive so may be cost effective to get your own.

Patchwork_Quilt

Would it be possible to find a gardener/company to do it for you once with a petrol mower/strimmer to get the worst off?

I agree it would be tricky to find a three hour slot and I can well understand not wanting to do chats and cups of tea.

I would lend most things to my neighbours but I don't like to borrow, so I understand that too.

My allotment neighbour got a petrol strimmer for free on Freecycle. I'm not sure if you have space to keep it though

Sorry you are in this pickle

PasturesNew

basmic wrote: »

Strimmer for £23.99: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-6282.aspx

Lawnmower for £19.20: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-3920.aspx

Total cost - £43.19 - not bad if they last you just 3-4 years.

Splash out £43 and stop showing your street up! Attack the worst with the strimmer, then polish it off with the mower.

If you'd read, you'd realise I have nowhere to store them.
It's not the money, it's the space.

PasturesNew

lil_me wrote: »

If you don't want to get the landlord to do it companies do gardening including regular maintainence. My partners Grandma pays £10 to get 2 lawns cut once a fortnight. They use petrol lawnmowers and strimmers so no access needed.

Me yes I would allow someone to use mine if I didn't think it would cause damage. A lawn not cut for one year would damage my mowers, the electric and the petrol one.

To store one there is small lockable storage systems you can get for gardening equipment as over time grass cutting could work out expensive so may be cost effective to get your own.

I did stop/ask the bloke who does various maintenance jobs etc round these blocks. He looked and quoted me £70.

I don't have space for a small lockable storage system - I am not even allowed to hang my washing outside.

I live in one room, not even a bed, no freezer. My airer is here with washing drying on it all the time. Would you place a lawn mower in the middle of your room, step over it every time you wanted to go to the loo or go out, sleep with it beside you?

mrbadexample

Lotus-eater wrote: »

If you've got long grass, I wouldn't have thought any electric mowers would cut it

Mine would, and has done.

PasturesNew

mrbadexample wrote: »

Mine would, and has done.

Pop over and prove it...

Money_Grabber13579

Would you have a friendly neighbour who would be willing to keep it in shape for you for a small fee each week? (After you get it sorted out this time, that is!)

PasturesNew

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Would you have a friendly neighbour who would be willing to keep it in shape for you for a small fee each week? (After you get it sorted out this time, that is!)

No
There's only this one neighbour I see from a distance occasionally mowing her lawn. I never see the others. It's a road where most people are renting,

She's the first one I've ever spoken to in nearly 2 years.

You just don't see them. Ever.

Vibrant

£70 quoted by the maintenance man seems rather high, if it took three hours, I would charge £32. Mind you I live in a cheap area, if you are in London, or similar, I suppose it is much more expensive.

Try looking in your village/town magazine, for a gardener, look for cards in windows, or ask at a small post office/corner shop, if they know of anyone who does garden jobs.

All the chaps I know use petrol mowers, so no access is needed. And I often don't see home owners from one month to the next, the money will be under a rock, in the shed etc, often with a little note of instructions.
It really is as if the "grass fairies" (or more like the giant grass bear in my case) have done the jobs, lol.

p.s Don't worry about the state of your flat, anyone who visits lots of homes, sees all sorts, you take no notice. Well I don't anyway.