Serving the Comox Valley
About Courtenay Tree Removal
Courtenay Tree Removal works across 4 separate permit authorities in the Comox Valley. The City of Courtenay, the Town of Comox and the Village of Cumberland each run a separate building department. The Comox Valley Regional District covers the electoral areas beyond them. Every removal is planned by an ISA Certified Arborist, with $2M liability insurance and WorkSafeBC certification on every crew.
We work four separate permit authorities inside one small valley, and knowing which one applies to your address is most of the job before a saw ever starts. That's the reason this business exists in the shape it does — not just tree work, but the paperwork that has to happen around it in the Comox Valley specifically. A quote here is never pulled from a size chart or a photo alone; it reflects what the crew finds when they actually stand on the property — the lean, the access, what sits underneath — and what the applicable authority requires before permission to cut is in place. That last part is usually the one that decides whether a job can start on the day it's booked or has to wait on paperwork first.
Who does the work?
Our crew removes trees, grinds stumps, and clears storm damage across Courtenay, Comox, Cumberland, Royston and Merville. Every job gets an ISA Certified Arborist assessment before a quote goes out, and we carry $2 million in liability insurance and WorkSafeBC certification on every crew we send. There's no provincial licence for tree work in BC, so we lead with the credentials that are real and checkable instead.
The equipment stays the same regardless of the address: a chipper for the brush, rigging gear for anything that has to come down in sections rather than falling whole, and a grinder for the stump once the tree itself is gone. Rounds get stacked where asked for or hauled away, and the ground is raked before anyone leaves. What changes property to property isn't the work — it's the paperwork that has to clear before the first cut.
Why does the permit authority matter so much here?
Because it's four different answers depending on which street you're on. The City of Courtenay measures your tree in centimetres and cares about species. The Town of Comox does too, at a different threshold. Cumberland doesn't ask for a permit on private land at all. The three CVRD electoral areas run permits through development permit areas instead of a bylaw. We check which of the four applies before we quote, not after.
What happens on the day?
We measure the tree, confirm the permit position, and only then give you a number. If a storm has already brought something down, or left a hazard leaning over a roof or a line, that call goes ahead of a routine quote. Text or call (778) 909-5126 to start — there's no email address anywhere on this site, on purpose, so every job comes through a line where we can actually talk it through.
A written quote lists the removal, the stump grinding and the cleanup as separate lines, so every part of the cost is visible before anything is agreed to. Nothing is priced from a phone description alone — the number comes after someone has actually stood on the property and looked at the tree, checked what's overhead, and worked out how the equipment gets in, does the job, and gets back out again without leaving a mess behind it.
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