Gary Prentice

Me neither. But after a couple more glasses of wine, I'll have enough of an opinion to disagree with someone

That looks well adapted. One consideration is that wood is stronger under tension, so there's less risk of the roots to the back of the tree shearing and failing. I think felling it is unnecessary, based on thise photos.

Sorry Neil, I couldn't help myself. But apart from that, If I was twenty years younger, I'd be tempted.

I've seen quite a lot of these galls on hybrid/Manchester poplars, some years a lot more than others

Seems we both did. Perhaps we can both look forward to clarification and enlightenment on what was meant?

Barcelona?

I thought I'd edited that before anyone got chance to see it If you're buying.

I've heard you called lots of things.....

My real name is Samantha....

Sorry Neil, my last post was on my phone and brevity leads to poor answers (in my case) If a building is suffering from seasonal tree related subsidence, the soil beneath will be shrinking in the summer and the re-wetting/expanding when winter precipitation brings the moisture levels in the soil back up to somewhere near normal. Cracks will open in the summer and narrow in the winter. That's when most cases are identified and soil volume changes may be relatively minor. On sites where there is a persistent soil moisture deficit (SMD) the underlying strata doesn't fully re-wet in the winter - partly for the reasons you've said and other reasons - the property may even be built on land that is already desiccated, so after tree removal and no further moisture extraction the soil, over time, expands fully and heave occurs. This can be dramatic and take years to fully rehydrate. I understand that in a lot of subsidence cases, where underpinning is necessary, ant-heave precautions are included in the construction to prevent further damage when significant expansion is predicted to occur. I don't know what experience/knowledge you have, so apologies if I'm teaching my grandmother to suck eggs , but it is a incredibly complex subject and all to often, because of costs and probabilities, trees are blamed on the balance of probabilities that they are the culprits.The loss adjusters want to settle the claim quickly and cheaply and maybe trees are removed when there are other causes such as settlement etc. I think I've only ever done tree work in half a dozen situations where there was subsidence, so no I've never been aware of heave after tree removal, but most of my working life has been up north on soils with very low PIs (Devensian tills, pennine coal measures and Kinderscoat sandstones in the main). If you're interested researching further, Biddles book 'Tree root damage to buildings' is a must read ( but heavy going!) or the AA seminars on subsidence.

Have you read Giles Biddles book? Or the london court court case that Oisin Kelly was involved in? ( Access to neighbouring land for pruning that would have caused heave then further subsidence if the pruning was continued regularly) theres a difference between seasonal subsidence related to trees and the reaction involving a persistent moisture deficit.

Can you message me? I'm feeling left out.

We've got to play nice.

Respectfully Mark, four people of extremist political beliefs! 'a raggle taggle bunch of brainless terrorists'. So you think none of these other organisation have any members who are professional people, are educated or have a high IQ?

So it's not true what everyone says about your short arms and deep pockets?

You know it's going to cost ya?

To be fair, that's four people in the entire armed forces (at this moment in time). What may more to the point is that of 71 proscribed organizations, one is National Action, one's Basque and the remainder are almost all Islamic. Only read through quickly, but the list is here https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/612076/20170503_Proscription.pdf Do we hear of every arrest that the police make of members of these other groups, or only after a terrorist attack? I don't know, I'm just asking.

That's my understanding too.

Of course you will....

What's wrong with babycham?

I think you're mistaking me for someone else!

You'll be keeping your wallet in your pocket then Apologies if my sense of humour offends.....

I was tempted, so tempted, to ask the question, "will it be milled?", but thought it better to keep the thread on track. Taking the other thread about forum behaviour into account, I didn't want to upset anyone by taking the proverbial.

Looking at a few photos Paul, everything is theorising really. Yes, you're right, I wasn't thinking clearly - if the soil on the inside expands the exterior walls can be pushed outwards with the classic example of lateral movement above the DPC. That's a cracking looking tree, shame they built a house there.

Giles Biddle has a photo of a house still suffering heave after thirty odd years (but probably an oddity) Edit: page 92 of his book. Paul, you'd hope that the house was built post NHBC and had foundations below the level of the trees root influence. Wonder about the soil soil inside the foundations actually expanding? Personally I'd suggest a lot more investigation before theorising about the consequences and Likelyhood or movement.