Whitby and Brooklin
Lawn care and snow removal in Whitby, handled all year.
One company, one monthly payment. Brooklin and Rolling Acres driveways are wide doubles, which is exactly where a machine beats a shovel.
- 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 Whitby
Whitby has the highest average household incomes in our service area, and Brooklin in particular is exactly the kind of community our year-round bundle is built for: busy dual-income families with detached homes and no interest in spending Saturdays mowing.
The Whitby neighbourhoods we serve
Serving Brooklin, West Brooklin, Williamsburg, Rolling Acres, Taunton North and Pringle Creek.
Brooklin and West Brooklin are our priority
West Brooklin is one of the most active new-build areas in Durham. Large detached homes, wide double driveways, and phases closing in batches, which means whole streets of new owners arriving at once, all of whom need both services immediately. It's our flagship Whitby route.
Williamsburg, Rolling Acres and Pringle Creek
Established family subdivisions with good density and sensible lot sizes. These are strong lawn routes with reliable snow uptake, and they connect naturally to the Brooklin runs.
Snow clearing in Whitby
Whitby driveways tend to be wide double or triple, which is exactly where a plow beats a shovel, and where a seasonal contract pays for itself against per-visit pricing.
What you get in Whitby
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.
Whitby and Brooklin questions
Do you cover Brooklin, or only south Whitby?
Brooklin and West Brooklin are the Whitby route, not an add-on to it. West Brooklin is one of the most active new-build areas in Durham and phases close in batches, which means whole streets arriving at once. Williamsburg, Rolling Acres, Taunton North and Pringle Creek connect naturally to those runs and we serve all of them.
Why would a lawn that looks fine need aeration?
Because of what is under it. Whitby lawns sit on clay-loam, and on a newer lot the topsoil was stripped during construction and a thin layer laid back over compacted subsoil that has had a loaded truck on it. The grass looks fine in May and gives up in the third week of July, because there is nowhere for the roots to go.
Core aeration from September into early October opens it up, and overseeding into those holes is when new seed takes most reliably in Durham. It is included on Gold and Platinum, and it is the job most Whitby lawns are missing.
My driveway is a wide double. Is a plow really faster than shovelling it?
On a Whitby double or triple, yes, and it is not close. That width is exactly where a blade earns its keep and where a seasonal contract beats paying per storm: the per-visit price of a wide driveway is what makes twenty-five storms expensive.
After overnight snow we target before 7 AM for Gold members and 6:30 AM for Platinum. That is a target rather than a guarantee for every storm, and a Brooklin address sits a little later in the run than an Oshawa one, which is the honest answer rather than the flattering one.
Gold, the membership that does the driveway, the walkways and the front steps after every storm, is $189 a month plus HST. Silver at $129 keeps the lawn and takes the city windrow off the end of the drive, which is the right membership if somebody at home is happy to do the shovelling.
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.