Questions & answers
Straight answers about planning, building and caring for a landscape in upper Kittitas County, plus a few about Swiftwater Houseworks.
These are the questions we hear most, from first-time callers and longtime customers alike. If yours isn’t here, ask. Brandon is happy to talk it through.
The short version of our year: we plan and design over the winter, schedule in March and build from spring through September. There’s more on why that works in plan in winter, build in spring. To see which towns we cover, check our service areas.
Ready to get started? Book a free design consult or call 509-260-3659.
Good questions
Don't see yours? Call or text 509-260-3659, or send us a note and Brandon will talk it through.
A landscape architect holds a state license and usually draws plans for someone else to build. We're landscape designers and a design-build company: we walk your property, draw the plan and build it with our own crew.
Plan in winter. We design from October through February, schedule in March and build from about March or April through September, and plans made over the winter get the earliest spring start.
Yes. Brandon does winter walk-throughs even with snow on the ground. We can still read the slope, the trees, the sun and where water will run in spring, and that's enough to start a plan.
Brandon walks the property with you, hears what you have in mind and looks at slope, soil, sun, snow and water. You'll come away with ideas for what would work there, and we follow up with an estimate.
Kittitas County, mostly the upper county: Cle Elum, South Cle Elum, Roslyn, Ronald, Easton, Suncadia including Tumble Creek, and the Teanaway. We also work in Thorp, Kittitas and Ellensburg.
Yes. We offer mowing, edging, leaf clearing, trimming and pruning, planting, mulch, weed control, bed refreshes and sprinkler care for homeowners, HOAs and businesses.
Homes are spread out up here, so much of the cost of maintenance is drive time. When neighbors on the same road or in the same HOA sign up together, the price can drop for everyone, sometimes by a lot.
Yes. We offer group rates for HOA landscape maintenance, and neighbor pricing works especially well when a whole community signs up together.
Yes. We handle spring start-ups along with repairs, leak fixes, adjustments and new sprinkler installations. Sprinkler work is the service customers mention most in our reviews.
Suncadia, including Tumble Creek, has its own landscape guidelines and review process. We've designed and built there and plan with those guidelines in mind, and the final approval always comes from the community.
Houseworks is our property-care division: handyman repairs, small remodels, flooring installation, vacation home care and house cleaning. It makes us one local call for the house as well as the yard.
Yes. We clean kitchens, living spaces and bathrooms, restock, vacuum, sweep and mop, and work from photo-proof checklists. Laundry, hot tub service, deep cleans and same-day turnovers are available as add-ons.
Yes. We're bonded, and we hold OSHA Standards / Class 30, Operators License, CPR and UST Class A, B & C certifications.
Fill out the contact form on our website, call 509-260-3659 or email [email protected]. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Free design consult
Brandon will walk the property with you, listen to what you have in mind and talk through what will work on your slope, soil and snow. The consult is free.
