Winter can be an incredibly difficult time of year for your landscape; but with the right help and techniques, you can enjoy your landscape more. While many landscaping activities such as planting and masonry will be pushed to warmer months, there are a few useful things to do as the snow falls.
First, stump removal is a great way to maximize your backyard area and get rid of something that would take generations to decay. Second, scheduled snow removal will ensure not only safety but proper preparation for the work to be done in the spring and beyond. Here’s why excavation and stump removal are in high demand at this time of year in Bedford, NH.
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The Right Places for Snow to Melt
Since snow removal is a winter necessity, it’s very important to consider where to put that snow once you move it. The most common places for snow removal are walkways and driveways. As intended, these walkways are frequently lined with some sort of landscape feature like plants or hedges. If snow accumulates around plants, it can damage or suffocate them as the long wait for melting begins. By keeping snow away from shrubs and flowerbeds, you can give those plants a chance to emerge strong in the spring.
You can’t have the snow moved onto the road either. It’s not very neighborly. Those piles of snow can become hazards by preventing visibility or negatively affecting proper drainage for the road. This snowmelt runoff can re-freeze and become a dangerous hazard for everyone. Depending on the direction of the slope, the snowmelt can also damage the foundations of structures.
Now, it might be difficult to find a place in your yard where snow won’t either damage plants or create a snowmelt hazard. The best option in this case is to hire a snow removal service to take all of your unwanted snow to a safe place to melt. This ensures that your yard and house will have the best opportunity to bounce back in the spring.
Keep Your Outdoor Spaces Healthy
Apart from the potential of damage from heavy piles of snow, the equipment used to remove snow may present a hazard to your landscape or hardscape. Shovels and plows could rip apart shrubs and gardens near your driveway or walkways, not to mention compact heavy plowed snow against the ground or something else. Walls, lighting fixtures, and other hardscape features can also be damaged by careless plowing practices.
Before the snow blankets your yard, call a snow removal service provider to map out and clearly mark the vulnerable features so that the snow removal professionals know exactly where to plow and what to avoid.
Always the Right Time for Stump Removal
Trees are often the highlight of any landscape. But when a tree falls victim to disease, storm damage, or old age, it has to be removed before it becomes a hazard. Dead trees become weak and brittle and may drop branches or fall over in a storm. They also become tinderboxes for fires to start. It’s always necessary to remove the tree before it becomes one of these hazards. Tree removal services will carefully take the tree down from top to bottom.
Even after it’s gone, there’s still an impressive sub-structure of the tree below the surface that can spread through much of the yard. Stump removal becomes an excavation at this point and will maximize the amount of space you have in your yard for any idea that beckons, as well as adding safety by removing an obstacle that, unlike wine, does not get better with age.
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