Grounds Maintenance Services

We are ISO 9001  accredited and have extensive experience of providing ground maintenance services to education, public and commercial sectors. Our staff are enhanced DBS checked, safeguarding, first-aid, NPTC, IOSH, LANTRA and ROSPA trained so you can be assured that we provide safe, efficient and quality services that will meet your specific requirements. 

The presentation of your grounds will surpass your expectations allowing pupils, staff and the general public to enjoy the outdoor spaces throughout the year.  

We have a flexible, honest approach when delivering and responding to ever changing requirements of each premises. We pride ourselves with delivering solutions to your outdoor areas expertly, punctually whilst being aware of the pressures, budgets and restrain on resources. With our dedicated, proficient and reliable staff, plus up-to-date equipment, we will provide you with a first-rate service.

Ensuring the safety of pupils, staff, our employees and to the public, we undertake a risk assessment of each task, and all works carried out adhere to our comprehensive health and safety and safeguarding policies. 

FULL PREMISE GROUNDS MAINTENANCE – with multiple services we will manage and maintain your premises to an impeccable standard, creating a bespoke package, working to your budget and saving you valuable time. Our services include:

• Grass cutting and maintenance
• Robotic line marking
• Weed control
• Hedges and shrubs trimmed and maintained
• Leaf collecting and blowing
• Litter collecting
• Sport pitch set-up and maintenance
• Artificial surface/MUGA maintenance
• Ground preparation, seeding and turfing
• Tree health and safety survey 
• Tree felling and remedial work 
• Sweeping of kerb edges and hard standing areas using our Kersten mechanical brush
• Event cover e.g. assisting on sports day
• Sports day preparation and set-up
• Caretaker cover/key-holder
• Winter gritting
• Site clearance
• Graffiti removal
• Jet washing

GRASS MAINTENANCE – we have specialist equipment and the expertise to manage most grassed areas. Our services include:

• Grass cutting
• Removal of debris and leaves
• Rolling
• Aerating
• Seeding
• Seed preparation
• Verti-draining
• Weed and moss control

SPORTS FIELD MAINTENANCE – as with all our work, we are meticulous when preparing sports pitches. We manage football, rugby, cricket, hockey pitches, and athletic tracks.

• Grass maintenance
• Sports pitch set-up
• Automated line marking
• Leaf collecting and blowing
• Removal of debris
• Set-up and removal of goal posts
• Paint ‘take-off’ boards for long, triple and high jumps
• Maintain sand levels and rake jump pits
• Weed and moss control
• Artificial surface/MUGA maintenance
• Assisting with sporting events
• Sports day preparation

WINTER AND SUMMER LINE MARKING – our robotic line marker works off GPS to accurately mark out multiple summer and winter pitches and tracks; to give an example of how efficient it is, the robot will paint a 400m 8 lane athletics running track in 1 hour 45 minutes. To give peace of mind, we use a Samsung tablet to plot and design the field and are able to send this image to our customers so they feel reassured knowing precisely how their field will look before applying any paint.  Our highly experienced team are proficient in line marking and routinely measure, mark-out and re-mark the following:

• Training grids
• Football, rugby, hockey and rounders pitches
• Shot-put, javelin and discus areas
• 100m, 200m, 400m 8 lane athletics running tracks
• Club names

HEALTH AND SAFETY TREE SURVEY – We provide health and safety ‘negative tree reports’ documenting only the trees with potential diseases, hazards and defects to help meet out clients legal liabilities and insurance requirements. 

TREE SURGERY – Felling and maintenance of trees, hedges and shrubberies are carried out by our fully trained, qualified and highly experienced arborists.

ARTIFICIAL PITCH /MUGA MAINTENANCE – don’t let wet and muddy football pitches prevent play. Artificial pitches are ideal for all year use, especially during Autumn and Winter. Using our oscillating brush, regular maintenance of these synthetic surfaces are an essential, effective long term cost-saving solution to retaining the quality and safety of your pitch.

WEED CONTROL SERVICES – herbicidal treatment is only applied by our staff who hold PA1 and PA6 certificate. We are NPTC certified in the use of knapsack and boom sprayers (up to 3 metres) and complete a COSHH report upon every application, however, before deciding to spray we will first use other methods of weed control.            

Excite Solutions Limited own and routinely maintain an extensive range of ground maintenance and arboriculture machinery of which all staff are in-house and externally trained.