Serving the Comox Valley
Tree removal in Merville
Merville sits in Comox Valley Regional District Electoral Area B, Lazo North, which counts 7,683 residents. Acreages here carry mature second-growth Douglas fir close to the buildings, and no municipal tree permit applies — only the development permit areas in the Rural Comox Valley Official Community Plan.
Out here the question is rarely one tree. It is which of the forty behind the house are the ones that would reach it.
How do you decide which trees actually need to go?
We walk the line between the buildings and the standing timber and look at what would reach what. Height against distance, which way the lean already goes, and whether the top is alive. Most acreage jobs end up as a short list of three or four rather than the clearing people expect when they call.
Can you get equipment up the driveway?
Usually, and it is worth asking early, since a chipper and a grinder need about a metre of clear width and somewhere to turn. On long rural drives the cost difference between wood we can reach and wood we cannot is larger than the difference between two tree sizes.
What does the written quote cover on an acreage job?
One number for the short list of trees, with the removal, the hauling and any stump work priced as separate lines so you can see what each part costs. We walk the site with you before anything is agreed to, and the plan we write down covers every tree we discussed, not just the one that prompted the call. Nothing on the invoice should be a surprise once the crew is booked.
Our tree services
- Tree removalFull removals by ISA Certified Arborists, rigged and lowered in sections where a straight fall would hit something. Stump and cleanup quoted alongside.Read more
- Storm and danger treesWindthrow, hung-up stems and split leaders. Risk assessed to the ISA method, and anything inside a utility approach distance goes to BC Hydro first.Read more
- Stump grindingStumps and buttress roots ground 20 to 30 cm below grade, deep enough for turf, paving or a replanted tree. Quoted separately from the removal.Read more
- Pruning and limbingDeadwood, roof clearance and canopy reduction cut to ANSI A300. Branches near an energised line go to the utility first.Read more