Disclaimer for conifer cut back?

[wicklamulla]

put it writing to both parties (i usually email it thru) explaining that you would recommend removal as opposed to skinning them up one sided.  Explain they will look rough afterwards if skinned up and they will not 'recover or look good again'   then offer 2 prices, 1 for complete removal and 1 for skinning them up.  The way i look at it is this,  if you really don't want to do it then walk away and let someone else do it.  Or price it up and get on with it.  I sometimes show customers photographs of  'hacked back' trees in a bid to dissuade them from having the same type of work carried out,  if they say 'do it regardless'  then i do just that.

[Dan Maynard]

Or other thing I have suggested to people to plant honeysuckle or some other climber to grow up the things afterwards, people seem to like the idea although to be honest don't know how well it works in the long term.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

Or other thing I have suggested to people to plant honeysuckle or some other climber to grow up the things afterwards, people seem to like the idea although to be honest don't know how well it works in the long term.

Here is a picture of trees in our high street which were shredded up one side and topped quite a few years ago. I don't know the whys or wherefores about the job but it looked stark and ugly for a long time. It still doesn't look good but I'm surprised how the greenery from branches on the untouched side has grown through and softened the appearance.

 

Were I the owner and given the house is just behind the trees I would have bitten the bullet and had the lot out as they are to the south of the garden .

 

[Stere]

See leylandi like the everywhere seems standard practice to hack em back like that.