Everything You Need to Know About Blown-in Mulch

Blown-in mulch is growing in popularity across South Carolina as more homeowners, facility managers, and landlords discover the labor and cost savings of this mulch installation technique. If it’s time to install new mulch around your playground, trees, flowerbeds, or landscape, it pays to consider the benefits of working with a blown-in mulch installation service. Here’s everything you should know about having mulch blown into your landscape.

Mulch can be blown in quickly

Mulching your property by hand is not for the faint of heart. It can take days to spread mulch manually, even when adding mulch to your landscaping on a single-family residential property. When it comes to commercial landscape mulch, playgrounds, and other large areas, you may be looking at a crew spending multiple days to complete the work.

It takes very little time to blow mulch in place compared to doing it by hand. With a powered mulch blower truck and a long hose, a team of two technicians can mulch your entire property in just a few hours. You can enjoy a transformed landscape in the same afternoon without intensive labor.

There will be less disruption on your property

When hiring landscapers or mulch contractors, you may be dreading the disruption to your home or business as a crew spends at least a day trampling your property and making a commotion. Because blown-in mulch can be installed in a matter of hours, the technicians will be there and gone in no time. The mulch truck will remain on the street or parking lot while only two technicians walk around the property on foot to blow the mulch. There will be no wheelbarrows or large crews to cause damage to your landscaping or lawn.

You may enjoy significant savings on labor costs

Blown-in mulch, of course, costs more than bulk mulch delivery but it can actually be much more affordable than installation by a team of landscapers. Spreading mulch by hand is time-consuming and labor intensive which means the cost will be high if you aren’t doing it yourself. On average, a single person can only spread a yard of mulch per hour. With a large property, hard-to-reach areas, steep hills, and other hurdles, it’s not unreasonable for a full crew to take an entire day or two to spread the mulch the old-fashioned way.

Using a blower truck and long hose, two technicians can spread about 60 yards of mulch in one day of work. This is up to 5x more efficient per person compared to using hands, rakes, and shovels. The larger the area that needs to be mulched, the more you will save with blown-in mulching service.

The results are smooth, precise, and professional

An overlooked perk of mulch blowing is the appearance of the final results. When mulch is spread by hand, the results are typically lumpy and uneven with loose mulch in the grass and walkways. Mulch can be blown with much greater precision to leave an even amount of mulch with a smooth finish. There will be no mess left behind.

You can choose from a wide range of mulch types

When you hire a mulch blower company, you aren’t limited to just a few styles of mulch. You can choose virtually any color and type of organic mulch, including mulch chips or shredded mulch and specialty playground mulch. If you aren’t sure which mulch is best for your landscape, be sure to ask before you request service. A GetMulch.com installer can help you better understand the unique benefits of each variety of mulch, such as pest repellent benefits with cypress and cedar, to achieve your desired results.

Even inaccessible areas can be mulched with ease

Dreading pushing a heavy wheelbarrow up a steep, rocky hill? Difficulty navigating through and around a fence to install mulch? What about reaching behind prickly bushes? Mulch blowing makes it easy for technicians to spread mulch absolutely anywhere, from a commercial roof to steep inclines, muddy areas, across large surface areas, and around shrubs and trees thanks to a long, flexible hose that’s at least 300 feet long.

Blown-in mulch is ideal for a variety of customers

Everyone can appreciate the benefits of blown-in mulch. Homeowners enjoy sleek landscaping that pops without the hassle and time commitment of spreading the mulch by hand or wheelbarrow tracks through the lawn. Commercial property managers appreciate the cost savings and reduced disruption of blown-in mulch as well as the uniform, smooth results. Landlords also turn to blown-in mulch to maintain rental properties with a hands-off approach that helps support higher rents and better curb appeal. Many Municipalities also turn to mulch blowing companies for efficiency and savings, especially when maintaining parks, playgrounds, and other public areas.