HOW TO SELECT THE BEST TREE SERVICE PROVIDER?
A Tree Service provider needs to posses certain specialized skills. An individual specializing in providing service in taking care of individual tree is known as an Arborist. With acquired knowledge and experience a good Arborist properly trained and equipped may be adjudged the Best Tree Service Provider.
Proper care of trees adds to the value of your properties, associated with lucrative returns. Removal of large trees involves risk and danger. Therefore, while going in for such activities, it would be prudent enough to select the best tree service provider.
The following are the services that an arborist can provide
- Pruning : Determination of the types of pruning required for the improvement of health, appearance and safety of the trees involving elimination of rubbing branches, removal of branches interfere with wires, buildings, removal of diseased, infected ,and improving the shape or silhouette of the tree.
- Removal is needed for dead or dying, irreparably hazardous or obstructing, crowding trees.
- Emergency Tree care is resorted to for removal of storm damaged trees
- Planting of appropriate trees suiting to a particular location.
- Other services of an arborist may include preventive tree health care, fertilization cabling or bracing for providing support to weak attachment, acration for improvement of root growth, spraying or injecting insecticides or pesticides and installation of lightning protection systems.
Having been well aware of various functions of a Tree Service Provider, you should give due attention to the following points if you want to hire the services of the best one.
- Verify his accreditation by recognized professional organization like International society of Arboriculture (ISA), the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) or the American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA).
- Verify whether he holds valid personal and property damage insurance along with worker’s compensation insurance. This save you from paying damages caused while carrying out the tree service.
- Check for the necessary permits or license obtained from competent authorities conforming to relevant state or national laws.
- Obtain referrals of reputed organization where the arborist had worked earlier. You may pay a visit to the particular location where his work was carried and whether that was to the fullest satisfaction of the employer.
- Ask for a detail quantitative and value wise estimate and make a comparison with estimates obtained from other reliable sources.
- Instead of accepting the lowest bid, give due weight to other to other relevant factors like credentials of the arborist, the extent of his skill, professionalism and past experience in handling similar jobs
- A person soliciting jobs, going door to door and offering services at discounted rates with assurance of time saving, can not prove to be the best tree service provider. Since the result of Tree service is going to have a long term affect, you should not allow something to happen which can never be corrected in future.
- Get a signed agreement for execution of the job within a scheduled time.
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