Helensvale
Tree removal in Helensvale
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Helensvale, including what the storms left behind.
Tree work in Helensvale
What the storms left behind
After the storms that hit the Gold Coast, Logan and the Scenic Rim over Christmas and New Year, the Queensland Reconstruction Authority named Helensvale among the suburbs with the most damage.
Helensvale State School was one of two Gold Coast state schools seriously damaged, with a tree impacting a classroom in a two-storey learning building. Trees that took that kind of wind and stayed up are the ones worth a look.
Nothing about that is unusual for the way this suburb sits. It was planned around a curving central reserve, and blocks here back onto public trees as well as their own.
Services in Helensvale
After the storm, and before the next one
Storm damage
Hangers and split limbs made safe first, then the rest cleared and carted.
Tree lopping
Damaged and dead limbs out of trees that came through the wind.
Tree removal
Taken down in sections where a tree is past saving.
What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost, palm removal cost
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.
Helensvale questions
Green waste, and the parks behind the fence
Why is there a cartage charge for the limbs?
Because the load travels. The Helensvale Waste and Recycling Centre does not accept green organics, and the City says the closest green organics drop and go facility to Helensvale is at Pimpama. That centre takes residential loads only, and the City's Molendinar centre accepts commercial green organics, so a contractor's load travels further.
Whose trees are whose where we back onto a park?
Worth settling before a date is booked. This was planned as a Canberra style suburb around a central reserve, and numerous linear parks run like wheel spokes from the central reserve, so a lot of blocks here share a boundary with council land. Your own side is quoted normally.
