Our approach to tree surgery
We happily work with individuals, and any organisation, including schools and all sorts of companies. Here we describe our approach to tree surgery.
When we receive your enquiry through our contact form, Certified Arborist Luke Geddes will give you an initial estimated price range if you included photos. If you’re ok with that, he’ll then contact you to arrange a visit to discuss your needs and evaluate the job. After the visit, he will send you a quote by email that describes the proposed works and states the cost, usually with a fixed price. The initial estimate, scoping visit, and quote are all free and with no obligation. Most of our work is within about five miles.
If you accept the quote, Luke will lead the team on site that carries out the work.
As well as ensuring a result that meets both your needs and that of the tree, the team will make every effort to protect your property and your neighbours’. This means moving out of harms way anything that can be easily moved, and protecting and avoiding whatever can not.
If the only way to remove the cuttings arising from the work is through a building, for example your house, this includes putting dust sheets down to avoid damaging the floors. To reduce the risk of marking the walls, we cut them down to manageable lengths in the garden, wrap them in a builders’ sack and carry them through in sensibly sized loads. We don’t drag anything through the building.
Before we leave, we will clear up and put everything back how it was before we started.
Working over pavements: safety first
We have a lot of experience working over public pavements. Safety is the most important aspect of tree work. So in these situations we put out signs to warn the public, and whoever is working on the ground wears a high visibility top, as well as standard issue helmet. If the tree is over a parking bay, we’ll often book a parking suspension to reduce the risk of damaging any cars.
An environmentally-friendly approach to tree surgery
LG trees cares for the environment. We recycle all our cuttings responsibly.
You may find our work surprisingly quiet. Using hand saws and secateurs facilitates our sensitive approach to tree work. Most of our chainsaws and hedge trimmers are battery powered. They are as effective as their petrol equivalents, and make less noise. They have also reduced our reliance on fossil fuels. We always use biodegradable chain oil in our chainsaws.
We make monthly donations to The Woodland Trust, Cool Earth, and the World Wildlife Fund.
Please see below for an outline of our tree surgery services for London.
If you need a Professional Tree Inspection with a written report and recommendations backed by professional indemnity insurance, we can recommend someone. This can be good for peace of mind if the risk posed by trees is a concern.
Please note we do not supply wood chip, mulch, logs, or any other tree based material. It all goes from the jobs, onto the van, to a big compost/biomass/log business in Enfield.
Planting trees
We are happy to carry out this essential work. Successful planting comes down to using high quality trees and good planting procedures, and planting the right tree in the right place. See our Planting trees page for more details.
Tree pruning
Our pruning will maintain or improve the health, appearance and safety of your trees. A tree’s canopy can be reduced or thinned out sensitively to leave a natural shape while increasing light penetration and reducing wind resistance. See our Tree pruning page for more details.
Tree removal
We understand that sometimes trees need to be removed. We are happy to consider this for you. However, we might end up suggesting you look for a different company, particularly for very large trees, because:
- we dislike removing healthy trees.
- for removing very large trees, you might get it done faster with a bigger company, as they should be able to put more people on the job. Don’t let that put you off in general though: we work hard, and are extremely efficient.
- we don’t own a stump grinder, although we can recommend someone who specialises in this.
- we don’t use stump killer / poison. Left untreated, some species will grow back from a stump, which can lead to safety problems.
Applications for planning permission
If you accept our quote and your trees are within a conservation area and/or protected by Tree Preservation Orders then we can apply for planning permission on your behalf. We only ask for a £50 deposit from you as submitting the application does take some time. The deposit will be deducted from the eventual invoice for the job itself, or refunded to you in the unlikely event that the council does not give permission.
Contact us for more information about tree surgery
We hope you now have a clear understanding of our approach to tree surgery.
For more information about our tree surgery services, please don’t hesitate to contact us today.