Saturday, 25 January 2014

How To Hire A Tree Care Company

By Grace Rivas


Trees are very important at home and in other places so they should be well maintained to ensure they are in good health. If the trees in your compound have broken limbs or overgrown branches it is good to hire a tree care company to assess the situation and take the right action. If you have never hired these professionals before the below guidelines will be helpful to enable you to find the right firm.

Firstly, it is important to ensure that the company is legitimate. To prove the legitimacy of the company, the firm should produce both the license and insurance, and ensure that these documents are valid. If the company is operating without these documents, then it means that it is operating illegally and as such is not fit for hire. So ask for copies of license and insurance and confirm they are valid.

One should ensure that the firm has liability insurance coverage and they should provide you with a copy of the same. The insurance coverage will take care of any damages that may occur to your property and if the contractor injures himself when working. Hiring a firm which is not insured means that, you will be liable for any problem that may arise.

Ensuring that the company invests in relevant protective gear for their staff is important. Items like safety boots, helmets, face shields and glasses are mandatory for safe operation. Having a firm invest in state of the art protective gear is a good indication that they are efficient in their work. This can be proved when comparing the latest rigging gear which ensures safety and easy to operate as compared to ladders.

It is important to do some research to find out the reputation of the firm in your region. It is possible to know the reputation through the kind of reviews you will get. One can check if the firm is a member of an association in that field. This is because such associations are responsible for ensuring the services provided to clients by their member firms are of good quality. So if the firm is registered with such an association it means that it has been proved to be reliable.

It is necessary to ascertain the number of years the firm has been in business. By so doing you will be able to determine the level of expertise they possess. A contractor with many years in business is a lot suitable in terms of experience. This is because chances are they have handled almost all kinds of problems associated with trees.

The firm should provide you with a cost estimate of the service. It is good to compare this with estimates from other firms to avoid been exploited. The estimates you get should be compared with the kind of service offered because some firms will have a package which contains services like cleaning up after the work is done while others will not. This should be guiding factor when considering the cost of the service to avoid compromising on the quality of the work to be done.

After you have identified a good tree care company to hire, do not pay upfront, and make payment once the work has been completed and that you are satisfied with the services. A company that ask you for the full payment upfront is not fit for hire. However, you may need to make some down payment.




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