Yard maintenance + mowing
Weekly or biweekly route work. Mow, edge, trim, blow — fescue lawns, native grass, and xeriscape gravel beds. Front and back.
Albuquerque, NM — ten years in the metro
Yard out front. Fixes inside. One neighbor handles both.
Mowing, sprinkler repairs, wood fence, tile, drywall patching — across Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Corrales since 2015. Call Marcelo at (505) 514-2158.
Marcelo's Maintenance and Lawn Care
Marcelo's Maintenance and Lawn Care
Marcelo's Maintenance and Lawn Care
About Marcelo's
Ten years of one truck, one phone, and a wide scope.
We started Marcelo's in 2015 out of the SE Heights — 87108, off California Street. The first work was yard maintenance for neighbors. Mowing, trimming, leaf blowing, the kind of route work that builds steady because people see it and call.
What changed is the scope. Most lawn guys won't touch a wood fence. Most fence guys won't run a drip line. Most tile setters won't patch the drywall above the new backsplash. We learned all of it because the same houses kept asking — the side gate that needs replacing, the swamp cooler that needs pulled and serviced, the bathroom floor that needs re-tiled before the carpet goes back in the hall.
So now the same phone call covers a lot of ground. Front yard out, drywall patch in, fence repair this weekend. Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Corrales — wherever the work is, we show up when we say we will, finish clean, and don't dress it up more than it is.
If the work is honest, we'll do it. Lawn, fence, tile, sprinkler. One phone call.
— Marcelo, owner
The wedge — what makes Marcelo's different
Outside, and inside — same phone, same crew.
Most operators draw a hard line at the door. We don't. Here's what the truck shows up with.
Outside
Mow, trim, prune, blow. Sprinklers and drip. Wood fence repair.
Front and back yards, every week or every two. Xeriscape gravel beds kept tidy. Sprinkler heads diagnosed one valve at a time. Cedar and pine fence panels and posts.
Inside
Tile floor, backsplash, grout. Drywall patch. Swamp-cooler service.
Small bathrooms, kitchen backsplash, mudroom floors. Doorknob blowouts and water stains patched and textured. Evaporative cooler startup in April, cover in October.
One phone call. (505) 514-2158.
What we do — Albuquerque + Rio Rancho
Ten services. Six outside, four inside.
Every one of these is something the route has already done this year. No padding, no upsell.
Trimming + pruning
Shrub shaping, dead-wooding, late-winter prune on Russian sage, chamisa, Apache plume. Crepe-myrtle and desert willow done right.
Leaf blowing + cleanup
Fall cottonwood cleanup along the Bosque corridor. Post-monsoon debris clears anywhere in the metro.
Fertilizing
Spring + fall feed schedule for cool-season lawns. Soil-appropriate amendments — Bernalillo County soil is not Midwest soil.
Irrigation + sprinkler repair
Drip line repair, sprinkler head replacement, valve diagnosis, spring startup and fall blowout. Backflow checks where required.
Wood fence work
Cedar and pine fence repair, panel and post replacement, gate rehang. We patch sections — not just full rebuilds.
Tile setting
Floor and backsplash tile — thinset, grout, sealer. Small bathrooms, kitchen splash, mudroom floors.
Drywall patching
Small holes, doorknob blowouts, water-stain cuts, settling cracks. Match texture before paint.
Evaporative cooler service
Spring startup, pad replacement, pull-and-cover in October. Albuquerque summer is what these are built for.
Light handyman + house cleaning
The smaller calls — carpet swaps, door fit, the move-out clean. We round out the scope when the bigger job needs it.
How a job goes
Call, look, quote, work, walkthrough.
- 01
Phone call
Tell us the address and what you see — overgrown side yard, broken sprinkler valve, a fence panel down. Five minutes is enough.
- 02
Walkthrough
We come out, walk the property, ask the questions that change the price. Free, no obligation.
- 03
Written number
One page, broken out by line item. Outside work, inside work, fence work — itemized. No surprise add-ons later.
- 04
Scheduled work
We pick a window with you. Most yard work lands within a week. Interior fixes the same week, longer for full tile floors.
- 05
Walkthrough + invoice
We don't leave until you've looked at it. Quick punch-list pass, then we square the invoice.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
Where Marcelo works
Ten years inside this radius.
Home base is SE Heights, 87108. We run the whole metro — over the river to Rio Rancho, north to Corrales, east up to the Foothills.
Bernalillo plus Sandoval County. We don't run east of the East Mountains and we don't take Santa Fe drives — keeps response time tight when a sprinkler line blows on a Saturday. Call (505) 514-2158.
On the route
How the work looks.
SE Heights and Nob Hill — the houses we work on 
Xeriscape front — gravel, drip, native plants 
Sprinkler diagnosis — head by head 
Juniper — pruned for clearance and health 
Cedar fence work — panels, posts, gates 
Route mowing — weekly and biweekly 
Xeriscape maintenance — light pruning, gravel top-up 
Agave + succulents — kept clean of weed creep 
Fall cleanup — cottonwood and ash leaf load 
Desert beds — bark, gravel, and drip 
Front-yard conversion — turf out, gravel in 
Stucco-and-tile-roof front yards — our bread and butter
What neighbors say — Albuquerque, NM
Quiet pride, ten years deep.
Marcelo and the crew finished eight hours of yard work that was going to take us a week. Left the lawn well groomed, hauled everything off.
Quick to respond, courteous, professional, very capable. Fair prices and good customer relations — we'll call him again.
Marcelo listened carefully to what we needed and took care of it quickly. We had drywall and a sprinkler valve — one call, both done.
Front and back yards — thorough weeding, mowed, blown clean. Fair price and the yard looked immaculate.
Straightforward, well-planned. We had a tired yard and no budget for the big landscape companies — Marcelo got it neat and livable.
Showed up when he said. Patched the drywall, painted to match, and didn't leave drywall dust behind. Rare.
How Marcelo sequences the year
What the year looks like in Albuquerque.
Different priorities, different seasons. Here's how we sequence the work across zone 7a — sprinklers in spring, mowing through summer, leaves in fall, interior fixes through winter.
Spring · Mar–May
Sprinkler startup. Drip-line repair. Spring feed.
Charge the system. Walk every head. Patch the drip line the freeze cracked. Pre-emergent and a light feed before the heat lands. Backflow checks where the county asks.
Summer · Jun–Aug
Mowing route. Trimming. Monsoon cleanup.
Weekly and biweekly mow. Trim the chamisa, the Russian sage, the Apache plume. Same-week storm cleanup when the July afternoons hit the foothills.
Fall · Sep–Nov
Cottonwood leaves. Fall feed. Cooler-pull.
Bosque cottonwood leaf load is real. We blow, rake, and haul. Late-fall pull and cover on the evaporative cooler before first freeze. Last mow of the year.
Winter · Dec–Feb
Interior work. Fence repair. Tile, drywall, patch.
This is when the inside calls come in. Bathroom tile, kitchen backsplash, drywall patch and texture, fence panels and posts replaced before spring.
Whatever season it is, the call is the same. (505) 514-2158.
Honest pricing
Mowing starts at$45/visit
Standard front-and-back lawn mow, edge, blow starts at $45. Sprinkler repairs from $85. Fence-panel replacement and tile/drywall priced on the walk — we don't quote interior work sight-unseen.
Free walkthroughs anywhere in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Corrales.
Call (505) 514-2158Questions — Albuquerque
Plain answers.
Yes. Mowing, sprinkler repair, fence work outside — tile, drywall patching, evaporative-cooler service inside. Same phone call. Ten years of doing both because the same houses asked for both.
Call Marcelo — owner answers
— Marcelo's Maintenance and Lawn Care
If we're on a job, we call back the same day. Albuquerque + Rio Rancho + Corrales.