Tree Maintenance in Belfast Northern Ireland

Treescapes NI are a professional tree surgery company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, offering tree services to Belfast and the surrounding areas of Northern Ireland.

There are many reasons for pruning and maintaining your tree/trees, this could be simply because your tree/trees are overwhelming and are taking up to much space in your garden. Or perhaps they are absorbing to much light to your home and surrounding trees, shrubs or plants. Maybe you wish to remove storm damaged or diseased branches, or simply want to aid your trees and property to work harmoniously in both urban and rural areas.

Once the decision has been made to prune a tree, the next decision to make is whether or not to tackle the job yourself and how confident you might be in doing so. In the case of a large tree where you want to remove big branches in the upper area of the crown, it may be best to hire a qualified tree expert from Belfast. Large tree pruning, in particular, can require climbing and chainsaws or even cherry-pickers. This is a job that should be left to trained and experienced professionals, whom are covered by specialist insurances. We would never advise that a client compromise personal safety in pruning a tree and would always recommend seeking the advice of an expert before trying to complete work alone.

If your tree problems include light issues, there is a technique called tree thinning that a qualified tree surgeon ‌in Belfast can offer to help resolve this. This technique opens up the tree crown to allow more light through the centre of the tree. Tree thinning can also prevent ‘wind blown’ damage as the air flow can then easily pass through the tree instead of creating a force that pushes against it. Crown thinning is a pruning technique primarily used on hardwood trees, and the selective removal of stems and branches not only increases light penetration and air movement throughout the crown of a tree, but can also make life uncomfortable for tree pests further aiding the health of your tree.

Tree maintenance Services can also include the reshaping of trees. This can be achieved whilst retaining a natural shape by reducing the ends of branches that have out grown the normal uniform of the tree. Normally there is a given percentage for tree reductions which will relate to how much would taken off of the ends of the branches; for example 20% would need to be cut off of the branches that protrude the natural shape and pruned back into the predominant shape of the tree. Tree reductions help keep your tree in good health maintaining the branches weight so that they do not break and leave dangerous damaged or diseased branches on your tree. With Belfast being an urban city this can be ever more important as many trees overhang main roads and/or public footpaths, as well as neighbouring gardens. Emergency tree work can be expensive and can quite often not be the only cost endured by an unsafe tree.

Tree Cutting in Belfast and Northern Ireland is also important for aesthetic reasons. We take pride in how green we are in the Ireland and Belfast trees are beautiful features of our connection with natural world. The condition of a tree from the first inspection that we make can paint a picture of the tree’s health and potential lifespan. A professional tree surgeon from Belfast or a Belfast arborist will look at a variety of factors when inspecting a tree, including the position of tree, dangers the tree may cause now or in future if pruning work is not carried out and potential damages to the public and property during the tree work as well as after.

At Treescapes NI we offer scheduled maintenance programs on trees and hedges so that you can sit back and feel safe that your tree/trees are being well maintained and looked after by specialist Belfast tree surgeons, whom both know and understand about trees, the dangers that they can pose, and who appreciate what a safe and healthy tree can bring to a home, family and it’s environment. Our tree maintenance programmes are offered to both commercial and private clients as we feel that this is an important service that can be offered to any person looking for a long term solution to tree care at their property.

Belfast Tree Trimming services, whether set up as a full time tree maintenance programme or just as and when the owner of a tree feels it is required, will help the health of your trees. The advice of a qualified tree surgeon can be priceless tool to understanding and knowing when and what kind of tree care service you might require now or in the future. Services such as tree dead wooding can be an essential and rewarding tree surgery service to complete. This particular tree care technique helps by removing any dangerous branches or limbs that are dead and could potentially fall at any given moment, risking property and people if allowed to stay in a tree.

A professional Belfast tree surgeon (arborist) will have attained qualifications that have assessed his/her capability of safely practicing tree surgery services. A tree surgeon will be able to use a variety of tree surgery techniques to complete a range of tree care works. All tree work should be completed using a general minimum standard otherwise known to us as the British Standards. The British Standards are around in all areas of our lives from the food we eat, the furniture we buy to the services that we require. There are two main BS standards that a professional tree surgeon should know about and use these are as follows:

British Standard 3998:1989 ‘British Standard Recommendations for Tree Work’

British Standard 5837:1991 ‘Trees in Relation to Construction’

As a professional tree care company within Belfast, Northern Ireland, we have a range of equipment to allow us to offer our services from the very smallest to larger more long term projects. Having the right equipment means that we can turn difficult tasks such as reducing tall hedges, from being a burden to maintain, to being a beautiful mature feature in a garden. Householders, balanced on a step ladders, clippers in hand is a recipe for a bad accident, and often we hear stories of how our clients have finally decided to call a professional tree care specialist after breaking a leg or an arm in such situations. We can offer services to trim or remove climbers like ivy, clematis, honeysuckle from trees or buildings and feel that our range of tree and gardening services allow a variety of clients to make use of and the most of our competitive prices.

To receive a free quotation please call or email us to book an appointment to meet with a member of our team.

Tel: 080 0069 9738 Or Email: info@treescapesni.co.uk