A mature colony of “Clumping Bamboo” that had spread and encroached into a neighbouring property.
The rhizomes had spread under the fence and were now spreading over an increasingly large area of the neighbouring properties shrub filled raised boundary border.
Time was now of great importance, if allowed to spread further and become more established the shrubs would have been put at risk, with them needing removal for an effective rhizome removal. This clearly would have increased costs greatly for our client.
You must always remember, if you bamboo encroaches into a neighbouring property it is highly likely that you can be found liable for any removal costs and associated damage and reinstatement costs.
Working with the management committee of the neighbouring property the rhizome expansion was removed, their planted border area left in a condition as close as possible to before works started.
The rhizomes had spread the entire width of the neighbouring boundary and had spread laterally a distance of approximately nine metres.