Tree Care Across The Gold Coast

A full tree service across the City of Gold Coast

Tree Care Gold Coast arranges tree removal, tree lopping, pruning, stump grinding and stump removal, palm work, land clearing and emergency storm response for houses, body corporates and commercial sites across the Gold Coast. The work is carried out by experienced arborists with maintained gear, and the first thing that happens on any job is working out whether the tree can legally be touched.

That step matters here. The City of Gold Coast planning scheme protects vegetation through a vegetation management overlay that covers a great deal of the hinterland fringe, the coastal dune systems and the remnant bushland pockets inside suburban streets. Some individual trees carry protection on top of that. A crew that turns up and starts cutting without checking can leave you holding a fine that dwarfs the cost of the job.

What we do

Most calls fall into a handful of jobs. Whole tree removal where a tree is dead, structurally failing or simply in the wrong place. Tree lopping to take weight off limbs hanging over a roof, a pool or a neighbour's fence. Pruning to Australian Standard AS 4373 so a tree keeps its shape and its health rather than throwing a flush of weak regrowth. Stump grinding after a removal, or full stump removal where new footings or a pool shell need clear ground.

Then the Gold Coast specialties. Palm removal — cocos, Alexandra, Bangalow and golden cane — and palm tidying so fronds and seed heads stop landing on cars and pool fences. Land clearing on acreage and building envelopes. Emergency and storm work when a limb comes down in a summer southerly.

What we will not do is top a healthy tree because it has grown tall. Cutting a mature eucalypt back to stubs produces weakly attached regrowth that is more dangerous in five years than the original tree, and on a protected tree it is also an offence.

The trees you actually have

The Gold Coast grows things fast. Poinciana is the classic street and back-garden tree here, spectacular in December and notorious for shedding heavy horizontal limbs in wet weather. Weeping figs and Moreton Bay figs planted in the 1960s and 1970s are now enormous, with root plates lifting driveways and finding sewer joints. Eucalypts — blackbutt, tallowwood, forest red gum — hold the hinterland fringe at Nerang, Mudgeeraba and Tallai, and drop limbs in still hot weather as well as in storms.

On the coastal strip the story is salt and wind. Everything from Main Beach south to Coolangatta sits in a cyclonic wind region under AS 1170.2, and coastal blocks get salt-laden onshore wind that kills crowns back on the seaward side and accelerates decay in wounds. Norfolk Island pines, cocos palms and beach she-oaks dominate that frontage.

Getting a price

Every quote is free and given after someone has looked at the tree, the access and what sits underneath it. A fifteen-metre gum over a canal-front pool at Broadbeach Waters and a fifteen-metre gum in an open paddock at Guanaba are not the same job. The cost guide explains exactly what moves the number, including the only price range the business publishes.

Ring (07) 5230 8034, tell us the suburb and roughly what you are looking at, and we will tell you whether it needs an application, a climber or a machine. The service area pages cover what is specific to each suburb, the FAQ answers the approval questions people ask most, and the blog has the long guides on palms and transplanting.