report to be undertaken for Aesculus hippocastanum

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Yeah but insurance won't cover gross negligence, insurers will duck it if the inspector acted outwith his qualifications and experience and/or without the reasonable skills required of a competent inspector. My insurers wanted to see sample reports and instructions before covering me.

 

So don't call it anything other than a contractor's report and don't pretend you know about stuff it you don't.

 

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OR refer the matter to a 'suitably competent person'...what's your address Jules?

 

Good stuff, thank you.

Paul

[daltontrees]

:thumbup1:

 

OR refer the matter to a 'suitably competent person'...what's your address Jules?

 

Good stuff, thank you.

Paul

 

It would have been too easy and a bit negative to say 'if you have to ask, don't do it' but we all have to start somewhere and my first few reports (heavily caveated) were written an a tree contractor without any formal arboricultural training. The customer (not a client, note) was in no doubt that i was only giving helpful advice to the extent of my knowledge and experience and that I wasn't qualified or insured. Come to think of it, I didn't charge for them. Invariably got the jobs or on some occasions saved the odd tree from unnecessary risk-averse felling. Nice to see those trees 10 years on without crushed cars or tombstones beneath them... not so nice to see the other contractors that advised felling of the trees driving around in new trucks looking in love with themselves.

 

Names withheld to protect the guilty.