Lawn mowing in Delahey
Delahey was farming land until the government acquired it for subdivision in the mid-to-late 1980s. Almost every house dates from the one decade that followed, the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, and the name was adopted in 1994 for William Delahey, whose family took up land at Keilor in 1848.
Founding mowers are joining in Delahey 3037 now. List your lawn free - it goes to them as they're verified, and you pay only when you see the photo.
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Mowers are joining in Delahey
We're recruiting mowers for Delahey right now, across the Brimbank / Melton cluster. List your lawn and you'll be first in line when it opens.
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- Founding offer closes
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Mow in Delahey?
Free to join, 10% + GST* only on jobs you win, and founding mowers pay 0% for 3 months from their first paid job, then 10% + GST locked until 31 Dec 2027. A typical Delahey lawn guides at $100–$145 a cut.
Claim a founding seatBefore you list: three things worth telling a mower about a Delahey lawn
- A lawn laid with a 1990 house and never relaid is a different cut from one relaid last spring, so the rough age of the house helps.
- No green bin is the default in Brimbank. If you haven't opted in, choose clippings taken away, or ask for a mulching cut.
- Give the side gate's width with the listing. Under 70 cm nothing but a push mower fits; 70-95 cm suits the standard machine.
Delahey lawn mowing questions
How much does lawn mowing cost in Delahey?+
For a Delahey lawn of 180 m², expect $100-$145. Your bid is built from the aerial trace of your block; a smaller front-and-back comes in under that, a corner block with a long strip over it.
Does Brimbank mow the nature strip in Delahey?+
Not as a matter of course. The land is the council's and so is the tree, which council crews plant and prune, but mowing, weeding and litter are left to the resident by established expectation. Add the strip to the listing and the mower cuts it in the same visit.
Is a Delahey lawn still estate turf?+
Not any more. The houses went up between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s, so the turf that came with them has had more than thirty years to root. Cut it at the normal height for its grass; the high cut for new estates only applies if the lawn was relaid recently.
About Delahey
A lawn laid with its house has been down for thirty to nearly forty years by now. That is well past the estate stage; the roots have had three decades and more to get into whatever the farm soil was. There is no creek and no named slope to go on, so what your own ground does is the fact to give. If it sets hard in February or squelches in August, that is worth a line in the listing.
The open space is a substantial linear reserve, smaller neighbourhood reserves and a community centre, and on the eastern side the 774 ABC Melbourne transmitter, a 215 m guyed mast, stands between the houses and the St Albans-Sydenham railway line. The reserves are the council's grass. Yours starts at the fence and the strip. Shopping is a drive-in centre on Kings Road; Mackellar Primary opened in 1991 and Copperfield College keeps its senior campus here. Sydenham, Taylors Lakes, Keilor Downs, Burnside, Kings Park and St Albans are the neighbours.
Delahey is City of Brimbank. The grass between the footpath and the kerb sits on council land, yet no council round cuts it; the expectation is that the household keeps its own strip mown, weeded and clear of hazards, and an overgrown strip that gets reported is assessed, hazards first. A garden bin has to be ordered. Brimbank's opt-in organics bin, bright green lid, costs $103.30 a year at 140 L or $115.49 at 240 L on a 12-month minimum, goes out fortnightly, and switches to weekly under the four-bin system from 1 July 2027.