[02/28/2020, ANNISTON] – Hardscapes are as essential to businesses as they are to homes. While homeowners use hardscapes to add outdoor living spaces, raise property value, or enhance curb appeal, commercial hardscapes are designed to usher in sales and customers. U.S. Lawns, a landscaping provider, uses hardscaping designs and services to beautify business facades in Anniston, Alabama, as well as to benefit the state’s environs.

What Are Hardscapes?

Landscapes consist of two elements: softscapes and hardscapes. It’s important to know the difference between them. Softscapes are the trees, plants, grass, bushes, shrubs, soil, and all manner of greenery. They are the most popular part of a landscape. However, there are also the hardscapes, which are any feature of the landscape that are built of stone, concrete, or wood.

The Importance of Commercial Hardscapes

Clients or prospects who visit a company's premises often go by their first impressions in deciding to work with the company. Safety, cleanliness, and professionalism are key considerations in their decision. Retail shopping outlets, for instance, need safe parking lots and pedestrian walkways to entice shoppers to keep on coming back. Clients and commercial product suppliers appreciate a safe, clean and professional place for them to drop and pick up deliveries or wait to be served.

Tenants of shopping malls need a clean and comfortable place to enjoy lunch. Hotels need to appear visually pleasing and enticing for prospective lodgers to book rooms. Businesses may differ, but the role of commercial hardscapes remain: to make the office or commercial space a safe and attractive place to do business.

Eco-Friendly Hardscaping from U.S. Lawns

U.S. Lawns’ hardscaping designs and services cater to companies in Anniston, AL. They offer permeable pavement systems for landscaping—interlocking concrete materials that absorb rainwater. Once the rainwater is absorbed by the pavement systems, it is stored by the aggregate substructure and slowly dispensed back into the ground, or diverted into a storage tank for irrigation. This system is ideal for replenishing the groundwater naturally and safely, contributing to water conservation.

These pavement systems and their paver components can also be made from materials that have a solar reflective index (SRI), thereby reducing ambient temperatures. These SRI-endowed materials are concrete and recycled materials that can withstand the elements, take a lot of pressure, and resist deterioration from freeze-thaw cycles. When making pavers like these part of the hardscaping, they can contribute to the illumination of certain areas like parking lots, lowering demand for electricity. This is how U.S. Lawns’ hardscaping can save Anniston businesses a lot of money.

About U.S. Lawns

U.S. Lawns provides a wide range of landscaping services that benefit businesses in many U.S. states. They provide grounds care services, landscape maintenance, landscape improvement, tree care, lawn care, irrigation, and snow & ice management.

Contact U.S. Lawns to learn more about their services today: https://uslawns.com/contact-us/