Ajax, Ontario
Lawn care and snow removal in Ajax, handled all year.
One company, one monthly payment. Ajax runs on the commute, so the driveway gets cleared before you leave, not after you get home.
- Fully insured
- Oshawa owned
- Lawn and driveway, $189 a month plus HST
See all three memberships and what each one covers
Green in summer. Clear in winter.
Why we work in Ajax
Ajax is a strong dual-service market: established family neighbourhoods in the north and east with the driveway sizes and commuting patterns that make winter clearing a necessity rather than a convenience.
The Ajax neighbourhoods we serve
Serving Riverside, Northeast Ajax, Audley, Nottingham, Central Ajax and Applecroft.
Riverside and northeast Ajax
Riverside is the prize in Ajax: well-kept family homes, good lot sizes and neighbours who notice when a property looks sharp. Northeast Ajax and Audley have newer builds with the wide driveways that make snow contracts worthwhile.
Central Ajax and the older west end
Mixed housing ages and smaller lots in places. We still serve these areas, but we're honest about it: some older Ajax properties have driveways short enough that a seasonal snow contract isn't good value for you, and we'll say so rather than sell you one.
Snow clearing in Ajax
Ajax commuters are heavily GO-dependent, and a 6:40 train doesn't wait. Our 7 AM target exists precisely for this.
What you get in Ajax
Weekly lawn service
Roughly 26 visits from mid-April to mid-November. Edge, mow, trim and blow off, the same day every week, same person, same standard.
Plus a full spring and fall cleanup, included in every membership.
Everything in a lawn visit →Unlimited snow clearing on Gold and Platinum
Seasonal contract from mid-November to mid-April. Driveway, walkways and front steps cleared, with no per-storm charges and no cap on visits.
Cleared before you leave: our 7 AM target after overnight snow.
On Silver, winter backup instead of a plow. You shovel the driveway. We take the windrow the city leaves at the end of it, after every storm, all winter. Four banked clears a season, on request.
How storm clearing works →One flat monthly payment
Your annual membership divided into twelve equal payments. A heavy winter costs the same as a mild one.
A twelve-month agreement that renews automatically unless you give 30 days' notice before your renewal date. Cancel any time with 30 days' written notice; leave part-way through and we settle up for the work already done against what you've paid.
See memberships and pricing →Your year at a glance
We're not plowing your driveway. We're still there after every storm.
Silver isn't a snow membership. You told us you've got the driveway. But your membership runs twelve months, so we're there twelve months. After every storm we run, we come back in the daytime and take the windrow off the end of your driveway: the ridge the city plow leaves behind, the heaviest, iciest part of the whole job. You shovel your driveway. We take the part that makes people give up.
You shovel the driveway. We take the windrow the city leaves at the end of it, after every storm, all winter.
Silver: Lawn Care & Winter Backup
What Silver gets after every storm
We're not plowing your driveway. We're still there after every storm.
The windrow pass
What we take. The municipal windrow cleared off the driveway apron, full width, to the surface. Nothing else on the driveway. The member clears their own driveway.
When. A daytime pass, on the same day Northline runs the member snow route, after the municipal plow has been through. Cleared by 5 PM.
Every storm. Every storm for which the member snow route runs. Same trigger, same day. If the municipal plow comes through after our pass, the windrow is taken on the next pass.
The windrow pass is not driveway clearing. The member clears the driveway; Northline clears the ridge the municipal plow leaves across the end of it.
Four banked clears a season
What it is. A full clear (driveway, walkway and front steps), exactly as a Gold member's, but on request and four times a season.
What it is for. The storms that beat you. Away, ill, Christmas morning, the 30 cm one.
When. Served after the member route is complete, never during it. Same day if requested before the route rolls; otherwise the next available pass.
Unused visits do not carry over to the following season.
What Silver does not get
No driveway plowing. No 7 AM target. No walkway or steps except on a banked clear. No salting. No entrance widening. Those are Gold's, and they are what Gold is sold on.
No driveway plowing. Gold plows the driveway, unlimited visits, every storm.
No 7 AM target. The windrow pass is a daytime pass, cleared by 5 PM; the 7 AM target after overnight snow is Gold's.
No walkway or steps except on a banked clear. Gold clears the walkway full width and the front steps every storm.
No salting. Salt is on request at Gold and unlimited and automatic at Platinum.
No entrance widening. The driveway entrance is widened all winter at Gold.
Ajax questions, including the one about the GO train
I catch the 6:40 GO train. Will the driveway be done before I leave?
Ajax station is on the Lakeshore East line and a good share of our Ajax members are on it, so this is the question we get asked most here. We target before 7 AM for Gold members and 6:30 AM for Platinum after overnight snow. That is a target, not a guarantee for every storm.
If your train leaves before 6:30, say so when you sign up. We will not promise you a 5:45 clear that we cannot hold every time. What we will do is tell you honestly where you sit in the sequence, and message you the night before a storm that is going to run long.
Do you serve Riverside?
Riverside is our strongest Ajax neighbourhood and we build the route from it outward into northeast Ajax, Audley and Nottingham. It is also a slightly different job from the rest of the city: the Duffins Creek ravine runs along its edge, and a lot on a ravine line carries mature tree cover, a heavier October and November leaf load than a subdivision lot, and shade that keeps the north side of the lawn thin and mossy.
We price those properties on what they actually need rather than on square footage, and the fall cleanup is included rather than charged per visit.
My driveway is short. Is a seasonal contract actually worth it for me?
Sometimes not, and we will tell you. Parts of central Ajax and the older west end have driveways short enough that a seasonal snow contract is poor value, and we would rather say that than sell you one and have you work it out in February. A one-off clear after the two or three storms that matter is often the better answer, and we are happy to do those.
Is there something between the lawn membership and a full snow contract?
That is Silver, and it is not a lawn-only membership any more. It is Lawn Care & Winter Backup at $129/month plus HST: the lawn all summer, then through the winter the windrow the city plow leaves at the end of your drive, off by 5 PM, every storm, plus four banked clears a season on request. It is the right membership for an Ajax house where somebody is home and able to do the shovelling, and the part that beats you is the frozen windrow the city plow leaves across the end of the drive.
We're not plowing your driveway. We're still there after every storm. If you want the driveway, the walkways and the front steps done for you after every storm with no per-storm charge, that is Gold at $189 a month plus HST: $2,268 a year against $2,523 for the same services bought separately.
Get a fixed monthly price for your property
Send me the address and I'll send you a real number the same day, Monday to Saturday. I price what is actually on the property, and if a membership is not good value for yours I'll say so.
Green in summer. Clear in winter.