3 Expert Tips for Preserving Your Landscape Designs Before Renovation

So finally you have decided to upgrade your home and all you are worried about is about the health of the garden landscape designs!

Although building contractors put their best efforts to execute the task in a safe and efficient manner, however, damage to trees, shrubs and delicate garden beds are inevitable. Use of heavy equipment such as bobcats, dumpsters wrecks the earth’s surface with their heavyweight, crushing the natural structure and squeezing oxygen out of the soil. The compaction threatens the earth’s surface and health of garden plantations, shrubs, water features and even lawns.

Here are some precautionary measures you may follow to minimise damage to your newly constructed landscape designs before undertaking the house renovation project.

Big Trees Needs Best Protection

Make sure you fence off trees matching to their drip line in order to protect the root systems. However, you need to abide by a few protocols such as adding 2'inch mulch to the roots when you find it difficult to fence off large trees. It will act as a protective layer to roots and cushion the soil whenever heavy equipment would pass over it. Construction damage may become apparent after a few years, giving indications of declining trees or even death of trees at the worst. To avoid such disasters, you should take good care of bigger trees.

Strengthen Your Soil Before Construction

If you are planning to undertake a house renovation job, you can ask the professional landscaper in Mandurah to come in and ‘fluff up’ the compacted soil. Landscapers know the best ways to treat soils before renovation and loosen it up to 12inches to make sufficient way for spreading high-quality soil from the top. If you already have planned this house renovation job a few years back, it would be better to let the garden landscaper know before they create garden beds or lay down sod.  However, if you skip this step, your plantations may suffer from poor drainage and compromised root growth.

Inform Your Builder About the Garden Beds

Most builders use tarp designed into a framework and suspend it over plants to collect debris. Make them aware of not to leave any toxic material such as plastic, metal on your yard. You must also ensure the sub-contractors never dump any sort of liquid waste such as paint or thinners while remodelling your house exteriors. Most tradesmen offering landscaping in Baldivis have confessed of getting hired only to unearth garbage dump from garden and therefore you must ensure the same doesn’t happen in your case.

By following these above set of advice, you can ensure minimal disruption to your garden landscape designs and keep the structural integrity of your property intact.