Oak tree for sale/fell

[trigger_andy]

Just now, topchippyles said:

Work 52 weeks a year do you (not) 

Calm down Yoda. 

[Andrew L]

No worries: I told you I failed maths O level first time around.

Thank you for putting me straight.

A

 

[topchippyles]

 

49 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Calm down Yoda. 

Here is another couple for your collection .

 

 

[Marc Lewis]

I refer to almost all houses in the UK as rabbit hutches. 
 
On a serious note, the houses are patently architecturally awful. The only redeeming feature of that I can see is the oak tree in the front garden. The house was purchased with the tree already standing in the garden - why buy the house if the intention is to fell the tree?
 
Does my head in. Developers pack shitty little houses onto postage stamp sized plots, leave the odd token tree than invariably ends up getting felled when someone buys a house and doesn't like the tree. 

I hate this argument. It is so difficult to find the perfect house when searching and always end up compromising. This house could have been ideal in every way ( right location, school, on suite bedroom etc) for the purchaser, bar the tree. So its a no brainer, buy the house and fell the tree, exactly what I'd do.

Job looks £500-800 to me. Easy day for 2 unless I'm missing something.

[mattyboy]

Deffo a day for a team of 3 at least, looking at 1k if wood removed or 800 if wood left on site

[Big J]

3 hours ago, Marc Lewis said:

I hate this argument. It is so difficult to find the perfect house when searching and always end up compromising. This house could have been ideal in every way ( right location, school, on suite bedroom etc) for the purchaser, bar the tree. So its a no brainer, buy the house and fell the tree, exactly what I'd do.
 

 

I disagree. 

 

I fail to see how the oak tree is negatively affecting the house. I'd bet that it's a stand out amentity feature on the road, and that the neighbours would be very sad to see it go. It has ecological value too, and will help with solar shading in summer. 

 

It would be no more expensive to perform a well considered and sympathetic reduction which would bring it down to a more appropriate size for it's setting, whilst maintaining the amenity and ecological value of the Oak tree. 

 

The last thing a modern housing estate needs is a reduction in the number of mature trees.

 

 

[gobbypunk]

Well said Big J 

[Moose McAlpine]

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Edited December 30, 2020 by Moose McAlpine

[Khriss]

15 minutes ago, Moose McAlpine said:

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You just want to fell it  😉 K

[Moose McAlpine]

3 minutes ago, Khriss said:

You just want to fell it  😉 K

 

I was showing off my excellent maths skills but then saw it'd already been covered and i was late to the party as usual.

 

I'd rather climb and dismantle.