No More Trees

I am a treekiller. Actually, we paid people to come in and cut down all the trees on our property.


We had to do this because -
1. The property is small, trees were growing very close to the house.
2. Tree branches were tangling in the power and cable lines. There was a broken branch actually danging off a line.
3. Mini trees were starting to grow in our gutters.
4. There were small trees growing right next to the house, if we did not remove them, they would most likely break through the foundation.
5. There were small trees growing between our chain link fence and the neighbour's wooden privacy fence. If left to themselves, both fences would be damaged, ours would warp and theirs would break.
6. On the other side of the yard, our chain link fence already has wood growing along/into the fence. Totally awful.


We had to hire two companies to do this. The first one did not complete the job properly. But that's another story altogether.

But the second one hired did an outstanding job. I would definitely hire Charter Oaks again if I need them in future. (Probably would have to every year to get them to trim the neighbours' trees along the fence line that grow into our service lines.) The arborist who gave me the estimate was punctual and polite and informative. The tree service team was also punctual, and very courteous and cleaned up after themselves. The old dude who came to grind the stumps did a great job, although he seemed to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. The lady who was my contact always called me back promptly whenever I left a message.


I am happy that Kiwi should only need to climb up on the roofs one more time this year to clean the roof and gutters. I always worry when he does that. I would gladly hire someone to do it, but he would rip my head off for "wasting" money on something that he can do himself. But if he falls and hurts himself, we'd probably pay 100 times more for medical bills.