Ajax is straightforward to route — the street grid is regular, the subdivisions are contiguous, and we can cover a lot of properties without long gaps between them. That keeps seasonal pricing here competitive.
Clay soil is the thing to know
Much of Ajax sits on heavy clay. It holds water after rain, dries into a hard pan in July, and compacts badly under foot traffic and parked vehicles. On clay, feeding a lawn that cannot get air or water to its roots is money wasted. We recommend core aeration here more often than anywhere else we work — usually annually rather than every second or third year — and we would rather aerate and overseed than sell an extra fertiliser application onto compacted ground.
Wind off the lake
The southern streets toward the waterfront are exposed, and open-frontage properties drift in the same way the Etobicoke lakeshore does. Where a property drifts repeatedly we will say so after the first winter and adjust the clearing pattern, rather than quietly returning three times per storm.
