Tree Guides for South Shore Homeowners

We wrote these for this stretch of Nassau County: the postwar lots, the seventy-year-old maples, the PSEG wires overhead, and the storms that roll through most falls and winters. Real numbers and straight answers, including a few places where we'll tell you that you don't need to hire anybody.

What Stump Grinding Costs on Long Island

Per-inch pricing, why there's a minimum charge, the five things that move the number, and how to measure your own stump in ten seconds.

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Does Homeowners Insurance Cover Tree Removal? (NY)

The one question that decides it, the $500-per-tree debris cap, hurricane deductibles on Long Island, and what New York law says when it's the neighbor's tree.

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Signs a Tree Is Dying, and When It Needs to Come Down

The scratch test, canopy dieback, fungal conks, root-plate heave. Two different questions (is it sick, and is it dangerous), both answered from the ground.

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Got a question these don't cover? Ask a person. Call (516) 619-3667 or send it through the form, and we'll give you a straight answer even when it's "you don't need us for that."

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Tell us what the tree is doing and where it is. We'll come look and give you a number you can hold us to. Estimates answered the same business day, and storm calls go to the front of the line.

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