Did you know that fallen trees and broken branches cause thousands of injuries and millions of dollars in property damage every year? Learn how professional tree services can help prevent emergencies and protect your home and family from these dangers.
Tree services might not be the first thought that comes to mind when considering the safety of your home and family but it is an important one to remember. Maintaining trees around your home and property is more crucial than enhancing aesthetics but helps with preventing potential hazards and ensuring safety.
Here are some ways having regular tree care can help protect your home and family.
Be Proactive. Have Regular Maintenance Done
Have Your Trees Yearly Inspected
Just like us, trees need to have regular check-ups or also known as inspections to determine the health of the tree. This can help determine there are no concerns of diseases, pests, or dead and weak limbs.
Arborists can spot signs of early pest infestations, diseases, or damaged and dead branches that can be treated to help prevent the spread of the issues from becoming a major threat to the overall tree’s health. This proactively helps care and protect from any safety hazards. Regular inspections can help prevent most of the storm damage that we come across.
Trim and Prune Your Trees
Regular tree trimming and pruning is important for maintaining tree health and safety. We often see storm damage could have been prevented with proper maintenance. For example, a dead tree limb breaks off during storm and falls on a car could have been prevented by having a deadwood trimming, a trimming that removes all the deadwood from a tree. Trimming can also alleviate and help manage the density of a tree, by reducing density this can allow wind to pass through more easily that will be less stress on the tree.
Help Prevent Storm Damage from Occurring
When strong thunderstorms or tornadoes come to Michigan, the first thing that can be apparent after the weather passes is broken tree limbs or fallen trees. While some of these hazards were inevitable, others could have been prevented with having the proper tree maintenance done to them, by thinning the canopy and trimming off weak and dead branches. This can help prevent branches falling or the whole tree becoming uprooted.
Remove Any Potential Hazards: Tree and Stump Removal
Tree Removal
Dead, diseased, or pest infested trees are your number one threat to worry about, not taking care of them soon enough can possibly lead to damage against your property or harm to your family. When a tree is dead or is suffering with a disease or pest infection this can cause the tree to become weaker and more susceptible to storm damage. We have even seen on a gorgeous 70º day with no harsh weather, dead trees have fallen or just a large limb unexpectedly cracks off from the amount of decay. Having a dead, diseased, or pest infested tree should be removed as soon as possible. Homeowners may be liable if a tree they knew posed a threat falls onto bystanders or a neighbor’s property and causes damage or injury.
Stump Removal
After a tree is removed, the stump is left in the ground, sticking out only a couple inches to a couple feet.
We always recommend to our customers to have stump removal to help remove any trip hazards and to remove the inconvenience of needing to mow around it. If the tree is in a garden bed, removing the stump will open space to plant a new tree or flowers. Stump removal can ensure that the tree has no ability to grow back after it is cut down. We have seen many times where homeowners remove trees and leave the stump, the tree slowly grows again and can become a fully established tree once more. This is also prevents fungus or pest infestations in the left over stump that can be difficult to manage.
Root Removal
As most of the ways that getting tree services done can focus on what is going on in the tree, broken branches, dead limbs, etc. We’re going to focus more on what is happening below ground. Tree roots are no joke to the damage they can cause, from uprooting sidewalks, impacting a home’s foundation, to causing septic or pluming damage that can cost thousands of dollars to repair. Along with uneven side walk that can cause a trip hazard and make you worried to let your kids play or anyone in the neighborhood. We recommend to have these issues addressed before you need to bring money out of your savings to fix the damages done to your property.
Stop the Spread of Fungus, Pest Infestations, or Diseases Spreading From Your Tree to the Next.
Pest Infestations
In 2002 a new discovery of a pest infestation was made in Southeastern Michigan that has since killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America. This was identified as Emerald Ash Borer, and has cost property owners, tree nurseries, forest product industries, and municipalities millions of dollars when this pest spread from one tree to the next.
Pest infections can be difficult to control, this is an important sign to always be on the look out if you are noticing pests around your tree and contact us immediately to schedule an inspection to help identify and seek treatment for your tree. This can help not only your tree but neighboring trees on your property or others around as well to help stop the spread. By helping to stop pest infestations it can stop trees from potentially dying or making tree limbs weak, which can stop storm damage from occurring.
Disease/Fungus Treatment
Just like us, trees are living organisms that can suffer with a disease or a fungus that can cause the tree to completely die or if detected early only effects a couple limbs. We have seen in the past a tree that was starting to flourish beautifully in the spring, growing with big green leafs, only to be completely dead by the end of summer from a quick acting disease. We recommend to regularly inspect your trees and if you see signs of early leaf discolouration or leaf drop, spots on a leafs, sudden dead branches, fungus on leafs or bark, contact us immediately to schedule an inspection to determine the health of your tree. By doing so this can help prevent weaken limbs that could be infected with the disease or fungus from breaking and protect your home and family.
Fungus, Pest Infestations, and Diseases are not only an above ground issue but many times these can spread underground in root systems that connect one neighboring tree to another.
Emergency Services
Storm Damage Response
After a bad thunderstorm or heavy snow fall, trees can become weak and have limbs break off or the whole tree can become uprooted from strong winds, heavy snow/ice weighing down branches, or the wood can be rotten or dead and can have simply break off even when the weather is “picture perfect”. In these cases when emergencies happen, it is vital to us to help clean up the debris off of your property immediately. This can become a hazard if left and pose a threat to your home, family, and community if not taken cared of accordingly.
Whether it is a broken branch still hanging in the tree, or a whole uprooted tree that is blocking your driveway, at Metro Detroit Tree, we offer 24/7 emergency tree services to help take care of the emergency quickly. If you are ever in the need of emergency services in the future, contact us at any time (586) 625-3398.
Conclusion
When it comes to protecting your home and family, tree care is a massive step that you cannot miss. We always recommend having your trees regularly trimmed/pruned and remove any hazards from your property before they become a bigger issue that can cost thousands of dollars and pose a risk to your family or bystanders. From trimming dead limbs off to help prevent the spread of pest infestations occurring, tree care is more than just wanting to have your trees look aesthetically pleasing but more of a concern for your home’s roof to the foundation, or even your neighbors property. Contact us today if you’re interested in getting a free estimate on tree trimming, removal, stump grinding, health inspections, or even for emergency services. We’ve got your trees handled for you.
