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Spring lawn care in essential for keeping your yard thriving and resilient through summer. If you want to a beautiful lawn and garden, follow these steps to keep your lawn and landscaping lush and green for the summer. 1. Rake It UpThe first step to preparing your yard for spring and summer is to do some raking and cleaning around the home. Use your yard waste container to collect all the leaves, twigs and other debris that has accumulated over winter. Try to do this every month. 2. Apply Fertilizer and Pre-Emerged Weed KillerFertilizer helps supplement the lawn with nutrients it lost during winter. Most experts agree that fertilizer should be applied at least twice a year. After your spring fertilization, six to eight weeks later, it’s a good idea to reapply both products. Speak with a professional about setting up the perfect fertilization schedule. 3. Consider Adding MulchMulch is a great way to retain moisture and nutrients during the summer heat. Mulch can help keep your plants sated and growing, but in some cases it may be a bad idea. Speak with a professional lawn care expert about the proper use of mulch. 4. Mow Your LawnDon’t let grass grow too high. Try to keep grass height between 2.5 to 3 inches. During peak summer, however, allow the grass to grow about a half inch longer. This helps the grass provide shade and retain moisture. 5. Trim Back Landscaping From StructureMulch, grass, and plants that are too close to the foundation can cause major moisture and pest problems. Try to maintain a minimum 2-foot clearance around the entire perimeter of your home. Trim back any trees, bushes or plants that are touching or coming close to the siding. In addition to trimming plants from your siding and foundation, it’s also important to look for any dead or excess growth in other areas of the yard. Pruning promotes healthy plants by eliminating dead or infected parts. It also helps you shape the growth of the tree or bush. 6. Inspect Nearby TreesFalling trees and branches can cause massive amounts of damage, injury and death. If dead and rotting trees are ignored, they can fall and cause damage and potential injury. To be safe, contact a tree expert every 2-3 years for a professional inspection and safety pruning. This is best done during late winter/early spring before the leaves come out and mask the damage. 7. Consider Aerating Your LawnAerate your lawn if it shows signs of compaction, such as moss. Moss can also indicate soil acidity (lawns like a neutral pH). If you become aware of soil compaction during your spring lawn checkup, contact a professional for the best plan of action. 8. Perform A Soil TestIn addition to problems like compaction and thatch, your soil may also be suffering from a pH imbalance. The best way to know whether your soil has the right pH balance is by hiring a professional to take a soil sample or by sending a soil sample to a local soil testing laboratory. 9. Know Where Your Emergency Shut-Off Valve Is LocatedOne of the most important things for you to know is the location of the emergency shut-off valve. This may be found in your yard and you will need to access it in the event of an emergency. If you aren't sure where this may be, contact us and we'll be happy to share with you the main locations it may be at. If you have a plumbing question or a question about this communication, please contact us at 214-328-7371 or email us at metroflow@metroflowplumbing.com.  $30 OFF Worked Performed
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Remember that if you have a plumbing question or a question about this communication, please contact us at 214-328-7371 or email us at metroflow@metroflowplumbing.com. You may download the checklists PDF from here: 
You may also view the checklists individually here: Putting our community first. Waived Dispatch Fee.We know that during times of uncertainty, a plumbing emergency is not an expense that you were planning for. To help our community during these times, we would like to relive some burden by waiving our Dispatch Fee. That's a savings of $65 valid on work performed Monday - Saturday from 8 am to 4 pm CT from 03/24/2020 to 05/31/2020. This discount will be applied to your invoice to help lower the cost. Contact us at 214-328-7371 and mention Promo Code: METROFLOWCARES to have this offer applied to your invoice and help lower the cost.  Coronavirus (Covid-19) posed a unique challenge to essential businesses that are required to go into your home to assess a problem, properly estimate it, and fix it. Because of this, we at Metro-Flow Plumbing decided to launch and implement a new way to do business: Video Chat. Let us tell you a little more about it and how you may benefit from it. Your health, your family's health, and our team's health - as well as their families' health - is of the outmost importance to us. Though it had not been done before, we thought we would give video chat a try. We launched our video chat program in April 2020 to help us better connect with our customers in need of plumbing help. Our most senior plumbers were assigned to engage with customers via FaceTime (iPhone users) and video (Android users). This allowed Metro-Flow Plumbing to establish a one-on-one relationship with customers before dispatching one of our certified plumbers to their home. Taking this approach helped us help customers and gave us an idea of the simplicity or complexity of the plumbing problem; saving everyone involved time and money. We are thrilled to announce that we will continue to offer video consultations to our Dallas and surrounding cities residents for the months of May and June 2020. A program that we could potentially extend.  We understand that having a stranger come into your home can be uncomfortable, especially during times of social distancing and being extra cautious. Know that we are following CDC guidelines, i.e. washing our hands constantly, wearing face masks, and so much more. For the details on all we are doing to stay safe - and keep you safe, please visit our Safety First #Coronavirus (Covid-19) blog, shared in March 2020. Putting our community first. Waived Dispatch Fee.We know that during times of uncertainty, a plumbing emergency is not an expense that you were planning for. To help our community during these times, we would like to relive some burden by waiving our Dispatch Fee. That's a savings of $65 valid on work performed Monday - Saturday from 8 am to 4 pm CT from 03/24/2020 to 05/31/2020. This discount will be applied to your invoice to help lower the cost. Contact us at 214-328-7371 and mention Promo Code: METROFLOWCARES to have this offer applied to your invoice and help lower the cost.  Prevent a plumbing problem with these plumbing tips:
 If you have a plumbing question or a question about this communication, please contact us at 214-328-7371 or email us at metroflow@metroflowplumbing.com.
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