My wife and I own a private preschool in San Diego. We've entrusted Mueller Landscape with our routine landscape maintenance (once every two weeks), and have been very satisfied thus far. The workers do a good job, and the company has been professional and very easy to work with. They communicate well, the pricing is reasonable, and their focus is clearly on the customer. We need the landscaping done during a window of time when the children aren't playing outside, and they were happy to accommodate us.
We also hired Mueller Landscape to do a few big jobs for us, including repair a portion of the deck, install a completely new irrigation system, and re-sod the entire playground (approximately 1200 sq ft). Again, everyone at the company was very professional and easy to deal with as we worked together to figure out the scope of the work, get an estimate, and schedule it. The work started on time, and was top-notch. There were no cost overruns or unexpected fees--the final cost was exactly what was provided for in our estimate, even though I know that some unexpected things came up which caused the work to take longer than originally anticipated.
What really stood out, though, were the workers. The jobs took just over a week to finish, and the kids were still in school during that time. We allowed the kids to play outside in the wood chip area, adjacent to where the workers were installing the new irrigation system and laying sod. The children (ages 2-4) were fascinated by the work (especially the irrigation pipes), and wanted to ask the workers all sorts of questions. It would have been completely reasonable for the workers to just ignore the kids and focus on their work, but instead, they were incredibly friendly, and would answer the kids' questions or talk with the kids for as long as the children wanted. The children loved having the workers there so much that many of them drew pictures of the "new pipes and grass" that they wanted to send to the workers. (This was right around the holiday, so the teachers actually did package up some of the pictures and then mailed them to Mueller Landscape with a holiday card thanking them for being so great with the kids.)
This is a great company to work with, and I recommend them without reservation.
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