Summer & Lawn Maintenance
Thunder Bay’s growing season is short but intense. Your property requires proactive, scheduled care to look its absolute best when the snow finally melts.
NorthGround offers a complete range of lawn and landscape services designed to ensure the aesthetics and health of your turf are consistently in check. From commercial lots to multi-unit residential properties, our crews arrive on time and are equipped to deliver exceptional results without the typical service industry headaches.
Turf & Landscape Services
Our comprehensive summer service offering ensures that your property is clean, healthy, and professionally maintained from the first spring thaw through the final autumn leaf drop.
Spring & Fall Cleanup
Not only do leaves and debris make for a cluttered appearance, but they actually inhibit the quality and expediency of your lawn's establishment come the spring months. Our thorough spring and fall cleanup services ensure the aesthetics and underlying health of your turf are consistently in check.
Aeration & Dethatching
Compacted soil and thick thatch are no friends to healthy root establishment. Through core aeration, we remove soil plugs between 2 and 4 inches, relieving pressure. Combined with dethatching to remove dead organic layers, we allow for deeper root growth, vital sunlight penetration, and sustained water and nutrient absorption.
Overseeding & Fertilizing
Maintain the thickness and capacity your turf has by giving it new growth opportunity each spring with our overseeding service. Like us, your lawn needs key nutrients to grow, sustain, and keep away disease. We utilize season-specific fertilizer blends built specifically for our northern climate.
Hedge Trimming & Flower Bed Care
Whether it's a line of perimeter hedges or recurring perennials, we service them for both aesthetics and health. By shaping and tightening up plant growth, we keep your foliage looking well-manicured. Our expert staff is highly trained in identifying the best course of action for pruning with long-term plant health in mind.
Mulch Installation
Nothing makes a commercial flower bed pop like a fresh layer of premium mulch. Not only does this drastically improve the curb appeal of your property, but an adequate thickness of mulch also minimizes weed establishment and growth, acting as a highly effective, natural weed control system.
Sod Installation
Whether starting fresh or repairing massive property damage, professional sod installation is the fastest route to a perfect lawn. We handle the site preparation, soil grading, and expert laying of premium sod, building a foundation for long-term turf success on any size property.
Lawn Maintenance
Consistent lawn maintenance is key to a clean, healthy, and well-manicured property. Through regular mowing, trimming, and edging, we promote even growth while enhancing the overall appearance and long-term health of your turf.
Winter Snow & Ice Management
Thunder Bay winters are notoriously unpredictable and harsh. You need a partner with redundant systems and the infrastructure to handle heavy, repeated snow events.
Any commercial, institutional, or multi-unit housing location has four key requirements for effective snow and ice management: clearing, ice control, accessibility, and safety. As an industry professional, we handle all of these requirements internally with care, precision, and 24/7 readiness.
Winter Operations
We leave no doubt. When the storm hits, our crews are already deployed. Here is how we keep your site operational and liability-free.
Parking Area Clearing
High-quality clearing with dependable timing to ensure your property not only looks well-serviced but is fully accessible for patrons, residents, and emergency vehicles before you even open your doors. A robust variety of versatile equipment, including compact and full-size loaders, plow trucks, and heavy tractors, allows us to effectively service any site regardless of size or complexity.
Parking Area Sanding
Heavy traffic naturally packs down snow, creating slick surfaces even after plowing. We provide the application of premium traction control material and treated sand to promote safe access through expansive parking lots, driving lanes, and dedicated entranceways. We monitor your site continuously to ensure traction is maintained.
Walkway/Entranceway Clearing
Sidewalks and entrances are the heart of your property's foot traffic. We deploy dedicated crews to keep these highly sensitive areas meticulously clear. Our goal is to ensure that people with all mobility levels can access your property safely and efficiently during and immediately after any significant winter event.
Walkway/Entranceway Ice Control
Salt is the only way to ensure a truly ice-free condition, and our team knows the specifics on how to keep your entrances completely free of this major liability. We utilize specialized organic ice melt that is safe on pets, concrete, and paved surfaces, as well as the surrounding environment, while still effectively melting ice in extreme temperatures dropping all the way to -29 degrees Celsius.
Snow Hauling
For properties with limited space or overwhelming winter accumulations, simply pushing snow aside is not always enough. We deploy heavy-duty loaders and high-capacity dump trucks to safely load and entirely remove burdensome snowbanks from your premises to designated off-site disposal facilities. This complete removal restores full parking capacity, eliminates hazardous blind spots, and keeps your property functioning flawlessly even during the heaviest winters.
Snow Relocation
When accumulated snow piles threaten to consume valuable parking spaces or impede crucial sightlines, on-site relocation provides a highly efficient solution. Our skilled operators utilize heavy equipment to strategically move massive snow banks to designated, low-traffic areas on your property. This maximizes your usable operational space and maintains safe, clear visibility for both drivers and pedestrians without the need for off-site transport.
Facilities We Serve
NorthGround provides dependable, year-round service for a wide range of demanding properties across the Thunder Bay region.
- Commercial Retail
- Institutional Facilities
- Apartment Complexes
- Condominium Boards
- Healthcare Facilities
- Community & Specialty
Secure your property's maintenance today.
Whether managing a single property or multiple sites, we deliver consistent, gimmick-free grounds care.