Tulip Tree advice

[Adam1990]

Hi guys 

 

Im looking for some advice on a rather large Tulip tree I have in my back garden which is about 5 1/2 meter from the house and it does have a TPO on it.

 

Here are the questions I have as I don't have much knowledge about trees:

 

. We have recently noticed a lot of woodlice around the outside of our house and after cutting the lawn yesterday I had a poke around the trunk of the tree because there seams to be a fair bit of the bark that is really really easy to break off... And yup I found a lot of woodlice around the base of the trunk! is this normal and would this be the cause of lots of woodlice around the outside of the house? 

 

. We moved into this house in July last year and picked it because it was the most house we could get for our money and wasn't too bothered by the tree.  Until it made the garden unusable last year because the Aphid rain was horrendous. So after discovering what I did yesterday and in the event that the tree does need to go, my only concern now is if it does need to come down what is the chance this could cause heave? I live in the south of the UK between Portsmouth and Brighton and looking online its possible I have either a clay or loam soil type and the tree is older than the house, but I don't know by how much.

 

 

 

 

[dumper]

There is only one way, it’s sunny and warm and four day weekend get the spade and dig a trial pit to look at foundations somewhere under the crack would be my first pit