Lot clearing
Lot clearing Comox Valley
Building envelopes, driveways and fire-smart spacing.
What lot clearing involves
Lot clearing in the Comox Valley covers everything from opening a building envelope on an acreage to thinning a crowded stand back to spacing that will survive its own exposure. It starts with a walk-over, because what gets left standing matters more than what comes out.
What is included
- Walk-over and a marked plan of what stays and what goes
- Selective felling and sectional removal where machines cannot reach
- Brush chipping, and wood bucked or removed as you prefer
- Wildfire fuel spacing and limbing up around structures
- Retained-tree protection so the survivors are not damaged by the work
Who it suits
New builds, driveways and outbuildings, acreage owners thinning a crowded stand, and anyone working through wildfire fuel spacing around a house.
Worth knowing afterwards
Trees left at the new edge of a cleared area are suddenly carrying wind they have never carried. Planning that edge is the difference between a clearing and a windthrow problem two winters later.
Lot clearing
Questions about lot clearing
Yes, and it is worth doing before the excavator arrives rather than around it. Where a municipal tree permit applies we will do the arborist report as part of the same job.
Thinning and limbing so a ground fire cannot climb into the canopy and so crowns are not touching near structures. On a wooded Island property it is the single highest-value clearing work there is.
No. Brush is chipped and removed. Open burning is regulated locally and seasonally and is between you and your fire department.
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Get a price for lot clearing.
Send a photo and a postcode. We will tell you whether it is a job, a permit question, or something that can safely be left alone.
Quotes are free, and we come and look at the tree before we price it.