Bamboo Removal Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Exeter Areas
There is no doubt bamboo is highly invasive and destructive.
Spreading quickly underground to penetrate weaknesses in homes and gardens.
With it’s power easily penetrating through cracks in paths, walls, foundations and drives.
It is not uncommon to find growth coming up inside of houses !
With its ability to travel under fences and hedges into neighbouring homes and gardens, you could soon be faced with potentially very costly legal proceedings with your bamoo covered under “Nuisance Legislation”
Devon Arborists can end your bamboo nightmare.
Call Devon Arborists today, our friendly and professional team will be able to help, offer advice and remove your bamboo 07485 411618
With bamboo being an invasive species it is vital not to ignore the issue, to act quickly before the extent of your problem becomes worse.
We offer honest advice, realistic expectations, we do not over exaggerate the problem just to increase your anxiety.
As a local business, your satisfaction matters to us, we are not a faceless nationwide type business.
Our numerous 5* Google reviews speak volumes of our workmanship and client care.
You have a legal responsibility not to allow your bamboo to encroach into neigboring land.
Bamboo Removal Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Exeter 07485 411618
FREE BAMBOO APPRAISAL – Send Videos of Your Bamboo.
Sending a walk through video is a great way for us to give an initial Free Appraisal.
We may be able to give an indication of costs from looking at these.
You may then wish to book a Bamboo Assessment.
The best way is via a walk through video.
Starting at the roadside at your house, video the route to the bamboo showing any obstacles along the way, such as gates, steps etc. Once at the bamboo location, showing the extent of the bamboo and any areas it has spread into.
Please show,
- The area outside your homes entrance, including the drive or path leading to your house.
- Path or route to the bamboo, including any obstacles on the way, steps, corners, narrow bits, obstructions.
- The area surrounding the bamboo, showing where the bamboo lies. ie is it in an open space, against a fence, in a flower border or walled area etc.
- The bamboo itself, from different view points, showing where it has spread.
- Show any encroachment into neighbouring properties.
Please also include your name and address.
To enable videos to be sent easily please keep videos to less than 60 seconds. It is perfectly fine to send more than one video.
Click the WhatsApp logo to send your video.
Bamboo Removal Costs.
“Bamboo Excavation” costs start at £995 +vat for a small straightforward excavation, however most bamboo excavations cost more than this.
Most “Bamboo Excavations” cost between £1795 +vat and £7995 +vat.
A straightforward excavation would be where the bamboo is in a clear open location with access around all sides for operatives and machinery.
Cost Increasing Factors.
Factors that increase costs include one or more of the following.
- Larger areas affected by the bamboo.
- Large volumes of bamboo culms.
- Limited or no access for machinery.
- Awkward locations of the bamboo. Eg.up or down banks,
- The bamboo in and around other shrubs, trees, hedges.
- The bamboo in and around landscaped areas, rockeries, ponds etc.
- Rhizome expansion into surrounding areas, such as patios, paving, gravel areas, lawns, under decking.
- Close proximity of fences, sheds and other obstructions.
- Encroachment into neighbouring properties.
- Bamboo shoots emerging from patios, paving, paths, drives.
Bamboo excavations are rarely straightforward, most will be affected by a number of the above factors.
It is vital that the bamboo should not be left, it will continue to grow, expanding each year.
The scale of the situation and resulting costs will get greater.
Bamboo problems do not go away, Devon Arborists can end your bamboo nightmare.
Bamboo Assessments.
To fully understand your individual bamboo issue, to suggest a method of works, the costs involved, we need to visit and assess the affected area.
Free Of Charge Bamboo Appraisal
Before a “Bamboo Assessment” is booked, we invite you to send a video for us to be able to provide FREE OF CHARGE an indication of likely costs, or failing this a likely minimum cost.
This means that you have some idea of costs before you commit to paying for a bamboo assessment.
Our Bamboo Assessments.
A walk around assessment of your bamboo will include
- The sizes and location of the bamboo.
- Any encroachment found into third party land.
- Visible damage to hard landscaped areas.
- A suggestion of our recommended method of works to suit clients situation and budget.
- Costings for works.
The cost for this assessment will be deducted from the total works costs should you wish to proceed.
Our Bamboo Assessments cost £245 +vat, (£294 inc vat @20%)
Bamboo Management Methods
We always offer the most suitable treatment method to suit your unique situation, honest advice, realistic expectations.
Using a combination of physical removal and chemical treatment we offer the most effective management of your bamboo.
Bamboo Excavation.
Absolutely our preferred method, ideally the method to be used whenever possible.
Removal of above ground canes and in ground rhizomes, using manual and or mechanical excavation.
Chemical treatment to any inaccessible areas and material.
ADVANTAGES
- Fastest route to bamboo remediation.
- Physical removal of culms and rhizomes.
- Affected area left in tidy condition.
- Reduced likelihood and quantity of future growth.
- Best option for encroachment into third party land.
- Environmentally preferable with less herbicide use.
DISADVANTAGES
- Higher initial cost.
- Works are destructive, however leaves area in a tidier condition.
- May need hard landscaping removal for maximum rhizome removal.
- Will require removal of affected plants, shrubs, hedges and possibly trees.
Herbicide Based Bamboo Management.
A lower cost option for bamboo management and longer term eradication.
Either foliar herbicide treatment to low culms or culm cutting and stem treatment.
Does not physically remove the bamboo culms/bamboo culm stubs or rhizome.
Ideal where budget restrictions outweigh eradication time scale and ongoing condition of the area.
ADVANTAGES.
- Lower initial costs.
- No destructive works in the area.
- Lower costs enable work to commence with less budget restrictions.
- Less likely to need adjacent plants, shrubs, hedges or trees removing.
DISADVANTAGES.
- Limited herbicide effectiveness meaning further herbicide treatments will be needed.
- Future costs of additional herbicide treatment.
- The area is effectively unusable due to culm stumps and rhizome in the ground, much like a “bed of nails”
- Environmental impact from herbicide use.
- Possible damage to close proximity plants from herbicide use.
- Less suitable for encroachment into third party land.
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Bamboo near Boundaries with Neighbouring Properties.
For any homeowner with bamboo, possibly the worst situation is where the bamboo is growing near a boundary with a neighbouring property.
Bamboo has an incredible ability to spread and create new colonisations.
If bamboo spreads from your property into a neighbouring property it is very likely that you are liable for its removal cost and any damage caused.
If this spread is into open clear borders or lawn the issue is bad enough, but if the spread is into areas of shrubs, trees or even worse into areas of hard landscaping such as paths, patios or drives the costs will very rapidly become significant, very quickly running into many thousands of pounds.
Clumping & Running Bamboo.
There are two distinct types of bamboo, clumping and running which grow in different ways, each with its own charactertistics.
Running bamboo is know to spread laterally very quickly. Its rhizomes spreading out in all directions below the ground surface with nodes that produce vertical growing canes each growing season.
As the plant matures, each year the new canes become taller and of larger diameter. The running rhizomes are its way of multiplying to create new areas of growth.
Running bamboo can spread commonly by 1 – 2m per year, or on mature colonies much more.
Clumping bamboo grows differently, it produces a more compact but very dense ball of rhizome, which expands every year.
Clumping bamboo does not generally spread laterally as quickly, however its very dense expanding rhizome ball can cause physical damage to structures, in a similar way to tree stumps, easily damaging pipes, pushing against walls and cracking them.
However, as the colony becomes mature, the clumping bamboo sends out rhizomes laterally to create a new colony. With this reaction whole areas can be completely filled with the very dense woody rhizome mass, which is very hard to break down and remove.
Make no mistake, clumping bamboo does spread.
Two completely differents types of bamboo, but both equally problematic.
The Irony of Bamboo
It is ironic how such a destructive invasive plant is totally overlooked by so many people. There are two main reasons for this. Dried bamboo canes are such a common sight in many gardens, this familiarity removes the concerns from homeowners over bamboo growing in their gardens.
Bamboo was also actively promoted on television gardening programmes as a fast growing attractive form of screening, absolutely perfect for small urban gardens to give privacy from neighbours.
It’s exotic oriental appearance absolutely perfect for character around patio and decking seating areas, where in actual fact these were the last places bamboo should be allowed to colonise.
Bamboo is very similar to Japanese Knotweed in many ways, yet it does not have currently the same bad reputation, however is some ways bamboo can be far more destructive than Japanese Knotweed.
Bamboo creates strong woody canes, far stronger than Japanese Knotweed, it is this woody characteristic of the rhizome that makes bamboo so destructive.
The ever expanding clump or the rapidly expanding running rhizomes very easily penetrate any weaknesses in walls, paths, patios and drives and similar. The power of the expanding rhizome will open up cracks, lift paving slabs, also penetrating through any weak areas in concrete and tarmac, leading to very costly remedial works.
Bamboo Removal East Devon, West Dorset, Exeter
We cover all areas of West Dorset, East Devon and Exeter, roughly from Bridport in the East, through to Teignmouth in the West, up to Okehampton on Dartmoor, Tiverton in Mid Devon and Chard in Somerset.