I hired a Tree Service Company to trim up 4 very large cedars which cost around $1,000. This spring I am noticing that there are so many dead looking branches sticking out with no foliage and now the tree looks terrible plus he topped the trees. I asked an arborist to look at them and tell me what I should do. He said he couldn't fix this problem and the best thing is to cut them down and start over. How do you know when you hire someone who has a tree service business actually knows what they are doing and what should I do?
The person who came to look at the trees after is a certified arborist and apparently the only one on the coast. Bill Davie, Branch Management Inc. I checked him out and he does say on his web site that he is a tree certified worker 2003 and certified Arborist 2004, PN2687-AT I just took a couple of pictures so you can see how upset I am about these trees.
I removed the name of the original business from your post, mostly because complaints about particular companies isn't the focus of this forum (you can use many of the consumer review sites to let people know your specific dissatisfaction, or other interested parties can private message you if they are looking to do similar work and potentially avoid a pitfall on the Sunshine Coast). I'm not an arborist, but in my uninformed opinion, it doesn't look like a proper job. Let's see what others have to say.
Thanks for doing that because actually I thought about it and was just going back to change it. It is too bad about the trees because now I am going to have think about having them removed and that is going to cost me more money.
Agree it is a badly-done job, but whether you'd be able to get any compensation by taking the perpetrator to court, I don't know. New foliage will eventually grow outward to hide the dead ends, but it'll take many years before it stops looking hideous. As an aside the trees are Western Redcedar Thuja plicata, not cedars Cedrus.
