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Conifer next to house

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Carebear1357 · 04/11/2017 17:59

I have a 4 ft conifer right next to my house and I want to get rid of it. I'm worried about subsidence. Am I ok to remove it?

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Carebear1357 · 04/11/2017 18:12

Sorry it's a leylandi

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niknac1 · 04/11/2017 18:15

It will be fine, years ago I had 40 foot trees removed and had no problems. 4 ft is really small in my opinion

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Carebear1357 · 04/11/2017 18:32

It's about 2 foot away from my house though so I'm worried the roots will have reached my house.

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Cantspell2 · 06/11/2017 02:29

Conifers are shallow rooted so at only 4 ft tall the roots wouldn’t have done any damage.
An easy way to remove it would be just to dig around it then rock the trunk from side to side. It should lift quite easily.

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