Summer is upon us and Japanese knotweed growth is now approaching fever pitch! Today’s news story is for a client that required our Japanese knotweed removal Stratford upon Avon services. It was for a domestic client and the knotweed was growing by a stream and was 10 metres squared in size.
Stratford upon Avon is a market town located in South West Warwickshire. It’s famous for being the bithplace of the world renowed playwright and poet William Shakespeare and is an extremely popular tourist destination – with almost 5 million visitors per year (not at all bad for a small town midland town)! It is a fairly affluent part of the United Kingdom, with residents typically having large, lush gardens and they take immense pride in their appearance.
The customer only become aware of Japanese knotweed after seeing a newspaper article and reliased that their garden had an infestation. They originally thought the plant was harmless and let it grow for it’s ornamental properties! Right away we put the customer at ease and discussed the Japanese knotweed removal procedure and ways in which we’d place a management plan together, to manage their infestation. We informed the customer that they’d definitely carried out the best action by contacting us immediately.
As we do with every one of our customers, we discuss our Japanese knotweed removal Stratford upon Avon strategies and after that talk about methods of removal and eradication. Knotweed Services UK, work together with our clients. We automatically provide you with the most effective strategies of elimination, along with the best value for money – we’ll counter and better any authentic like for like quotation. We are members of the PCA (read more below). You can expect a 25 year Accelerant Insurance UK Limited backed warranty. We could continue however the evidence is within our ever growing portfolio of contented customers.
Japanese knotweed continues to be featuring heavily in the news (radio, TV and news papers). The government has recently introduced laws and penalties for those that don’t manage their Japanese knotweed invasion. You can now be fined upto £2500 (£20,000 if you’re a company) and receieve an ASBO!!
Discovering Japanese Knotweed on or around your property can be quite distressing. Knotweed Services UK understand that no one wants to be told their property is worth less because of an aggressive weed in their garden however Japanese Knotweed will inevitably devalue your property. Eradicating it yourself would be very difficult and would require lots of time researching the plant properly. It would also require you to purchase expensive equipment, that’s why we strongly suggest using a specialist contractor such as ourselves. We have the professional training and experience to effectively eradicate any Japanese Knotweed infestation.
Knotweed Services UK are PCA approved. The PCA works with government departments, provides training and qualifications, establishes industry guidelines and works to improve outcomes across all the sectors it represents for “the damp, waterproofing, wood preservation and invasive weeds industries”. As a member of the PCA we are required to adhere to strict standards in order to receive PCA membership. The application for membership is detailed and thorough. It is for these reasons that any company approved by the PCA can be trusted to provide the most effective solutions for Japanese knotweed removal. To find out more about the PCA please click here.
Take a look at the pictures takes from the japanese knotweed removal Stratford upon Avon job:
