Tree Hugger
Franz| August 7, 2009 9:29 am
Our Utah home is what is called a PUD, Planned Unit Development, where most of the grounds are part of the home owners association property. It works great for a second home because we only need to worry about 5 feet from the building and therefore don’t need to concern ourself with keeping the grass mowed or the snow removed.
On the common property there was a big poplar tree. It was not planted by the Home Owners Association, but likely by a prior owner who should have know better than planting a tree so close to the house and patio, especially one that grows to 300 feet tall. Last year I did a lot of trimming of some of the lower branches, which were dropping down over our deck. I think the tree reacted to such pruning by growing even faster, just to teach me a lesson. When the wind blew, we would start to lose our digital TV reception since an antenna. But I knew in end I would be able to win the battle.
We finally decided to have the tree removed and obtained 3 quotes because I knew that was much too big of a job for me to tackle myself. On was a much better price so we hired them. It was much cheaper than we expected, based on having a much smaller tree removed years ago in a California house. We are glad to have that tree gone befor it’s extensive surface roots started to raise up the concrete on our patio, or worse, start to do damage to our foundation.
