By Neat & Tidy Landscaping
Bamboo removal guides covering running bamboo, rhizome excavation, bamboo barriers, removal costs, tools, regrowth, and professional bamboo control in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Once you handle bamboo yourself, you’re going to realize pretty quickly that this plant is difficult. It’s hard to cut. It’s hard to dig out. And it’s even heavier to haul away. There’s a reason bamboo removal services exist in the Pacific Northwest. If removing bamboo were as easy as mowing a lawn or removing … Read more
You ask, we answer: what tools do we use to remove bamboo? The list is fairly simple. We use hand saws, loppers, and sometimes a chainsaw to cut the canes. Below ground, we use pickaxes, shovels, mechanical saws, power hammers, digging bars, and spades to cut and pry through the rhizomes. We also leverage full … Read more
I’ve seen this before, and I’ll see it again. A homeowner wants bamboo removed. They start searching online, read a few articles, and try to figure out whether they can do it themselves, how much a contractor will charge, and why the quotes are so high. If you’re still at the stage of deciding whether … Read more
On just about every bamboo job we look at, there are two areas: the main stand of bamboo and the runners spreading away from it. Sometimes our customer owns the main stand, and the bamboo is moving into the neighbor’s yard. Other times, the neighbor owns it, and our customer is dealing with shoots coming … Read more
You found the house. Good neighborhood. Good school district. Parking isn’t bad. The house itself is in decent condition. Maybe it even came in a little below what you expected to pay. The yard needs some work, but that’s okay. You’re buying a house. You already know you’re going to paint some rooms, fix a … Read more