Home Improvement Projects Around Your Trees

Autumn is the best time for home renovation jobs. The weather is pleasant. The days are long enough you can get a good amount done on the weekend. The summer rainstorms are long gone.  If you plan on creating a few home improvement projects around your trees, here are some of the things you have to take into consideration to get successful results.

What Happens if You Don’t Plan- Designing a Tree-Safe Home Improvement Project
If you don’t form a plan for the trees in your outdoor space with your home improvement project, your trees could get damaged from any ill effects such as:

• Soil compaction
• Root suffocation
• Root damage
• Root loss
• Drought stress or drowning due to changes to drainage and irrigation patterns
• Too much pruning
• Bark injury
• Limb breakage

 
The Construction Site is Bigger Than You Think
Many tree issues associated with home improvement jobs happen outside of what numerous homeowners think of as the construction site. If you are doing backyard construction or a vast renovation job, the work area could include your whole back and front yards.

Excavation takes a toll on your complete ecosystem, not just the spot where you dug up. People and machinery are coming and going in and out of your landscape during a home renovation job. So, the soil in your front yard could be severely compacted while you’re doing work in your backyard.

FYI-Majority of Impacts Are Underground
Lots of home improvement jobs occur above ground. However, the effects on trees typically happen beneath the soil. If roots don’t have access to enough oxygen, nutrients, and water, they will perish. Trees having shallow roots could die from the stress of the home improvement work. Also, bear in mind that the roots of your trees could expand much broader and longer than you think.

It’s vital that you do what you need to protect the roots of your trees. Damage from a home renovation job could undo years of growth. The last thing you want to happen is requesting tree and stump removal service for your favorite, beloved tree.  ​

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