Now booking spring 2027 · price held, no deposit until spring (fence excepted)
A local crew that owns its equipment
Local Lawns is a Chestermere landscape construction company, owner-run, WCB covered and insured. We build and rebuild residential yards across Chestermere and Calgary.
Get a Free QuoteSpring 2027 booking
Local Lawns is booked out for fall 2026 — we’re booking spring 2027 now. Get measured and quoted this fall: for every service except fence, your quoted price holds for a spring install and there’s no deposit until spring.
Get a spring 2027 quote →Local Lawns started in Chestermere and grew out of one thing: too many new yards that were sodded fast and never drained right. Fixing that properly is construction work — regrading, drainage, rebuilding the base — not something a maintenance company does.
What we do
We install and rebuild yards across Calgary and Chestermere: sod, grading and drainage, rock and mulch, fencing, and beds and planting. That focus on construction is deliberate. It's why our grading and drainage work holds up.
Owner
Harman Gill owns and runs Local Lawns and is on site for the work — he's the one who walks your yard, writes the quote, and runs the crew that builds it.
Local Lawns started because too many Calgary-area yards were being sodded on top of a grade that was never fixed, so the lawn failed again within a season or two. Building it right the first time — grade, base, drainage, then the finish — is the whole reason this business exists. Reach him directly at (825) 735-7756 or contact@locallawns.info.
We own our equipment
Local Lawns runs its own Bobcat MT100 track loader, a dump trailer and an enclosed equipment trailer.
Subbing out the machine work adds hand-offs, and every hand-off is a delay and a markup. We do the removal, excavation, hauling, grading and installation ourselves, one crew, one schedule.
Owning the machine changes more than the price. It means we're not waiting on a rental yard's availability or someone else's operator to fit us into their week, so a job that starts on Monday can usually finish on Monday's timeline, not whenever every sub-trade lines up. It also means the same person who dug the site yesterday is the one setting sod on it today — nothing gets lost translating the plan from one crew to another.
How a Local Lawns project actually goes
- On-site measure. We walk the yard, check the grade, and talk through what's actually wrong before quoting a fix for it.
- Fixed written quote. One price, itemized, based on what we saw on your property — not a phone estimate.
- 25% deposit books your date in the schedule (spring 2027 work, fence excepted: no deposit until spring).
- Removal, excavation and grading first. This is the part that determines whether the finished work lasts, so it happens before anything visible goes in.
- Installation — sod, rock, gravel, fencing or beds — built on the base we just prepared, by the same crew.
- Walkthrough and final invoice once the site is cleaned up and you've had a chance to look at it with us.
Tell us about the yard. We aim to call back within one business day, measure within a few days, then send a fixed written price.
Get a free quote5.0 on Google (15 reviews) WCB covered & insured
Why owner-run matters
There's no gap between the person who quotes the job and the person who's accountable for it holding up.
If something about the site changes once we're digging — a drainage issue we didn't see from the surface, ground that's worse than it looked — that decision gets made on site, by the owner, not relayed through an office. And because Harman is the one who has to come back and fix it if it's wrong, the incentive is to build it right the first time, not to move to the next job fast.
What Calgary and Chestermere customers say about the crew
“They were on time and very professional. I'd recommend anytime. They did my backyard and they did a wonderful job. Thanks Harman and his crew.”
“Staff is the best, really friendly. My lawn looks amazing, it hasn't looked this good in years. 100% would recommend, they actually care about the work they do.”
Professional from quote to invoice
Every Local Lawns job runs the same way: a fixed written quote after an on-site measure. A 25% deposit books the date (spring 2027 work, fence excepted: no deposit until spring). We schedule properly, show up when we say, and hand you a final invoice on completion.
WCB coverage and liability insurance are in place on every job — see our questions to ask before hiring any landscaper if you're comparing quotes.
By the numbers
- 100+ yards transformed across Chestermere and Calgary
- 100,000+ sq ft of sod, grading and hardscape installed
- 5.0-star Google rating across 15 reviews from local homeowners
- WCB covered and liability insured
- Owner-run — the person who quotes it is on site
Common questions about Local Lawns
Is Harman really on site for every job?
Yes — he walks the yard, writes the quote, and runs the crew on every Local Lawns job. There's no separate sales rep and no hand-off to a sub-contractor for the labour.
What areas do you serve?
Calgary and Chestermere are our two priority markets, plus Airdrie, Okotoks, Strathmore, Langdon, Cochrane and Rocky View County. The Local Lawns service area page lists the neighbourhoods in each.
Are you insured and WCB covered?
Yes, on every job we run in Calgary and Chestermere — WCB coverage and liability insurance, not just on request.
What the written quote covers
- The quote
- You get a fixed, itemized quote in writing.
- Included
- Every project includes removal of the debris we generate, a final site clean-up, and a walkthrough with you.
- Yard size
- Sod replacement: $2,000–$6,000 for most residential yards Average back yard (~1,000 sq ft), real regrade + topsoil $3,500–$6,000 Large yard, or regrade plus a drain $6,000–$12,000 A larger yard or drainage runs higher, priced after the measure.
- GST
- All prices and ranges are before GST.
After you say yes
- Deposit
- A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the schedule and covers materials ordering (spring 2027 work, fence excepted: no deposit until spring).
- Start date
- Start dates are confirmed once the deposit is received.
- Changes
- If the scope changes — you add work, or we find something underground that can't be worked around — we'll price the change in writing before doing it.
- Balance
- The balance is due on completion, after the walkthrough.
- Watering
- Sod projects include a simple watering schedule for the first few weeks.
- Warranty
- Local Lawns warrants its installation work against defects in workmanship for one year from completion. If something we built — grading, seams, edging, drainage, hardscape — fails because of how we built it, we come back and fix it at no charge. Because establishment depends on watering we can't control, we don't warranty sod or plant survival — but a watering problem never excuses a defect in how we built the job; that stays covered by the workmanship warranty above.
Work with a crew that does the whole job.
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