Before Service 

• If we have not had adequate rain, water the lawn thoroughly before the service ensuring that the aerators will get good plugs.  Not having the soil moist prior to service will impact the aeration result.  If you can easily get a screw driver into the ground without a lot of weight or force, the soil is moist enough for good aeration.  A solid deep soaking is recommended. 
• Please mark all irrigation heads and valve boxes and/or underground pet fences (or any shallow wires or cables) with flags.  Southern Exposure can not accept responsibility for any unmarked objects.  A charge of $20 will be billed for lawns that need to be marked.
• Please mow (or have us mow) your lawn lower than usual to allow good seed-soil contact.

• Keep seed bed moist at all times.  This requires watering daily if rain is absent.  If possible, it is best to water two times per day, once in the morning and once in the late afternoon.  Fifteen (15) minutes per station should be adequate, as the objective is strictly surface moisture.  This process should continue until you have desired germination.  Fescue can take twenty one (21) days to germinate.
• Skip mowing for at least one week (longer if possible).
• Mow the new grass when it is of mowing height being careful of turns with the mower as the young grass is shallowly rooted.
• Once the grass is in, then water when we have gone 2-3 days without a deep soaking rain.  The objective changes to deep soakings once the grass has germinated.

• It is Southern Exposure’s policy that if a rogue storm washes the seed, we will perform the service again at cost.
• We will provide wheat straw where lawn is bare free of charge for customers under a maintenance contract, and at a rate of $8.00per bale for customers outside a service contract.  This price includes the labor and material (straw can germinate if used).
• Watering/Moisture is the key to seed germination success!!! Be diligent in your watering and results will follow.