We take down, trim and support mature hardwoods across Peachtree Corners, where 1970s and 1980s homes sit on wooded half-acre lots under white oaks, southern red oaks, tulip poplars and aging water oaks. The city sets its own tree rules, and lots near the Chattahoochee can also fall in the state river corridor, so we confirm both for your address before quoting. Reach us by phone at any hour to book a look.
Mature hardwoods over fifty-year-old roofs
Drive the residential streets off Spalding Drive and Peachtree Parkway and the picture repeats: big oaks and poplars that were already sizable when the houses went up, now spreading 30 or 40 feet over shingles, gutters and screened porches. Most of them are healthy and worth keeping. What they need is weight taken off long limbs through selective thinning, deadwood cleared from over the roof, and now and then a steel cable where two heavy stems split from one trunk.
Water oaks are the exception. Left in large numbers when these neighborhoods were built, they are reaching the end of a fairly short life, and the signs show up as dead tops, mushrooms at the base and hollow sections found only once a limb breaks. When a water oak over the house sounds hollow, removal is usually safer than another round of pruning, and we'll tell you so plainly. Our piece on why water oaks are failing explains what to watch for.
City rules and the river edge in Peachtree Corners
Peachtree Corners runs its own tree rules as a city, separate from unincorporated Gwinnett, so the county homeowner exemption doesn't simply carry over. Before we price a removal, we check the current city requirements for the address and tell you whether paperwork is needed. If it is, we take the measurements and photos.
The Chattahoochee forms the city's western edge, across from Johns Creek, and homes on the streets closest to the water may sit inside the river corridor that covers land within 2,000 feet of the river. Work there is planned around keeping soil in place: lighter equipment, mats on slopes and, at times, leaving a stump in the ground rather than grinding it out on a bank above the river.
Office parks along Technology Parkway
Not all of our work here is residential. Office campuses along Technology Parkway and the blocks around the Town Center carry landscaped islands, parking lot oaks and strips of pine and hardwood between buildings. Those jobs are about clearance for delivery trucks and people on foot, sightlines for signs and lights, and keeping limbs off roofs and walkways, usually scheduled around business hours.
Property managers tend to want the same thing each year: deadwood out, low limbs raised over sidewalks and drives, and any split or leaning tree flagged before a storm finds it. Our commercial tree work can run on a yearly care plan, so the trees get looked at before small problems pile up.