About Jack Coniam, Inc.
We are a family owned and operated lawn and landscaping company working across North Pinellas County. The company started in 1990 and it still does the same work: regular lawn maintenance, and the larger jobs a yard needs a few times a year.
- Company
- Jack Coniam, Inc.
- Working since
- 1990
- Service area
- North Pinellas County, Florida
- Ownership
- Family owned and operated
- Certification
- Landscape Best Management Practices
What the company does and where it works
The company does regular lawn maintenance and the larger yard work that goes with it, across ten communities in one county. It has done that under the same name since 1990.
Regular maintenance is the core of the work. Mowing, edging, string trimming and blowing off the hard surfaces happen together on every scheduled visit, weekly through the growing season and every other week once the lawn slows down.
The jobs a yard needs a few times a year are handled by the same company. Hedge and bush trimming, tree trimming, mulch and pine bark installation and full property cleanups are all on the list, so looking after one yard does not mean calling three companies.
The service area is North Pinellas County and it is deliberately small. Ten communities, tight routes and short drives between properties are what let us hold a schedule and get to you on the day we said we would.
- Trained and certified in Landscape Best Management Practices
- Accredited member of the Better Business Bureau
- Family owned and operated
What family owned means for the person calling
It is the first thing the company says about itself, and it is a phrase that gets used loosely in this trade. Here is what it actually changes for you.
- You reach the company, not a queue. The number on this site is the company number. You are talking to the people who look after the yard rather than to a call center taking a message for somebody else.
- You do not explain the property twice. Nothing is passed between departments, so what you said about the gate, the dog or the wet corner of the back yard stays with the people doing the work.
- The people who cut the lawn learn the property. A yard is easier to look after in the second year than the first, because by then they know where the sprinkler heads are, which gate is the one that opens and which side holds water after a storm.
- The company trades under one name in one county. Its record here and its work here are the same thing, and it cannot move to another market and start again.
What Landscape Best Management Practices covers
The company is trained and certified in Landscape Best Management Practices. That is a line on a list until somebody explains it, so here is what it covers and why it matters more in this county than in most places.
Landscape Best Management Practices are the standard set of practices for doing landscape work in Florida without damaging water quality. They cover the ordinary parts of the job: how high grass is cut, what happens to the clippings, where yard debris ends up, and how a crew works around drains, ditches and shorelines.
That matters more here than it does inland. Pinellas is a narrow peninsula, the water table sits close to the surface, and the storm drains do not run to a treatment plant. They run to the bay and to the Gulf. Grass clippings blown into the street are gone with the next afternoon storm, and the nitrogen in them feeds algae once it reaches the water.
None of this changes how a lawn looks on the day of the visit, which is exactly why it is worth stating. It is the reason the blower is pointed back at the lawn rather than at the curb.
What it looks like on a property
- Clippings and debris stay out of the street. Hard surfaces are blown back toward the lawn at the end of a visit, not into the gutter and not down a drain.
- Grass is cut at the height the grass wants. A lawn cut high grows thicker, holds its soil and its water on the property and shades out most of its own weed seed.
- The wet season is planned around. From June to September it rains most afternoons. Saturated ground tears when it is cut and washes when it is disturbed, so a visit moves rather than being forced.
- The standard is written down. Best Management Practices are a published standard for the landscape trade in Florida rather than a slogan, which is why the training exists and why it is a fair thing to ask any company about.
Where you can check the company for yourself
Two things on this page can be verified in about a minute without taking our word for anything, because neither of them is written by us.
Customers rate the company 4.7 out of 5 on Google, from 33 reviews, with 4 more on the Better Business Bureau profile. We did not write any of them and we cannot edit them, which is the only reason a rating is worth quoting at all.
The company is also an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau. That is worth understanding rather than treating as a badge, so what it involves is set out here in full.
What accreditation involves
- A company applies for accreditation. It is not handed out automatically and it is not a logo a business can simply put on a website.
- The Better Business Bureau reviews the business against its published standards before it accredits it.
- An accredited business agrees to respond to complaints brought through the Better Business Bureau and to work at resolving them.
- The profile stays public, including anything that has been filed against the business. Ours is there to be read.
What has changed since 1990 and what has not
The company started in 1990. Some of this work is exactly what it was then and some of it is not, and it is worth being straight about which is which.
What has not changed
- St. Augustine is still what most lawns in North Pinellas are, and it still wants cutting high.
- It still rains most afternoons from June to September, so the grass still grows fastest in the months when it is hardest to get onto a lawn.
- A lawn cut too short still thins out and lets weeds in. It is still the most common thing done to a yard in this county.
- Turning up on the day we said we would still matters more than anything else a lawn company does.
What has changed
- North Pinellas has kept filling in. The East Lake corridor in particular went to new subdivisions, and those lawns sit on younger, sandier ground than the older streets nearer the water.
- The rules around water are tighter. Watering days are set for you now, and there are county rules on yard debris and on what may reach a storm drain that did not exist in 1990. Best Management Practices training exists because of that.
- Equipment has moved on a long way. Mowers, trimmers and blowers cut better and are easier on a lawn than the machines that were in use in 1990.
- People find a lawn company differently. In 1990 it was word of mouth and the phone book. Now it is a map listing and a page of reviews, which is part of why this site exists.
How this page was written and what is still missing
Every fact above comes from what the company has published about itself. Nothing has been filled in with a plausible guess, which is why the page is as short as it is.
Four things would finish it: who founded the company and who runs it now, a real photograph of the family or the people who do the work, a plain statement about insurance, and any license or certification beyond the two named above. Each of those does more for this page than another paragraph of writing would.
Ask us to come and look at the yard
We will walk the property, look at the grass, the beds and the hedges, and tell you what we would do and how often. The quote is free, there is no obligation once you have it, and nobody will call you again if you decide not to go ahead.
Seven days a week, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Email cjackc.inc@gmail.com.