Most trimming jobs start with a branch that’s become a nuisance: scraping the roof, dumping leaves in the pool, blocking the gutters, or creeping toward the powerlines. Left alone, those are exactly the branches that come down in the first decent storm and do real damage, to your roof, your car, or the neighbour’s fence. Trimming them back is cheap insurance, as long as it’s done by someone who knows where to cut so you’re not left with a lopsided or unhealthy tree.
Trees actually touching the network powerlines are Energex’s responsibility, not something you should be paying anyone to climb into. If a tree’s contacting powerlines, call Energex on 13 19 62. Everything on your side of that, clearance around the lines coming into your property and growth heading that way, we handle safely. Knowing which is which saves you money, and we’ll tell you plainly at the quote.
“Trimming” sounds harmless, but a branch cut in the wrong spot leaves a wound that won’t seal and a tree that responds with weak regrowth. We treat trimming as clearance and tidy-up work, but we still cut to AS4373 so the tree stays healthy while you get the clearance you need. You end up with the roof and pool clear and a tree that still looks like a tree.
How many branches, their size, the height and access, whether there’s a roof, pool or powerlines underneath that mean roping each piece down, and how much material comes out. A couple of low branches over a driveway is quick. Clearing large limbs off a two-storey roof is a bigger job. We look at it and give you one fixed price in writing.
We come out, look at what needs clearing, and give you a fixed written price on the spot, cleanup included. Once it’s booked we confirm the day before and call you the morning of. On the day, the branches come down under control, nothing lands where it shouldn’t, everything’s chipped, and the site’s left clean.
A branch trimmed back before it becomes a problem is a cheap, quick job. The same branch left until it’s scraping the roof, lifting tiles, or heavy enough to tear a gutter off in a storm is a much dearer one, and it might take the roof or the car with it. A tidy before storm season, keeping growth clear of the roof, gutters and powerlines, is some of the best-value tree work you can do.
Depends on the species and how fast it grows, but a tidy before storm season is the smart move, keeping branches off the roof and out of the gutters before the wet.
We treat trimming as clearance and tidy-up work, and pruning as the health-and-structure side. Either way we cut to AS4373 so the tree stays healthy.
Usually, but there are rules about trees on boundaries. We’ll do it properly and let you know if anything needs a conversation with the neighbour first.
Anything touching the network lines is an Energex job, call 13 19 62. Clearance work on your side of that, we’re set up for.
Depends on the species and how fast they grow, but a tidy before storm season is the smart move to keep branches off the roof and out of the gutters
