Gold Coast and the Tweed
Hedge trimming on the Gold Coast
Screening hedges cut back to a line you choose, clippings taken away.
Hedge trimming
Getting a hedge back to a line
Growth here is fast enough that a hedge left for two seasons is a different job to one cut every year.
The line you want
Height, width and face are agreed before the machines start, because a hedge cannot be put back on once it is off.
Cutting back to bare wood
Some species shoot again from old wood and some never do. Which one you have decides how hard it can be cut.
The clippings
Mulched on site or taken away. A long hedge makes more volume than most people expect.
Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared
How it works
Four steps, and the permit comes before the price
Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.
- 1
Call or send the form
Include the suburb, your details and what needs to be done.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
On site, not off a photo, because access and what sits underneath change the job.
- 3
The permit position is checked
Against the city's vegetation mapping and the koala controls, before a price is given.
- 4
Quoted in writing
The quote sets out the scope, the timber, the stump and the date. Then a date is booked.
Hedge questions
Boundaries and how often
It is on the boundary. Whose is it?
Where the trunks sit decides that, and it is worth agreeing with the neighbour before a date is booked.
How often does it need doing?
Twice a year holds a screening hedge to a line here. Once a year is a bigger cut each time.
