County Durham

Tree Surgeon Durham

Tree felling, removal, stump grinding and pruning across Durham and County Durham. Free inspection and written quote, no obligation.

Fully insured Free written quotes Covering Durham & County Durham
Free inspection and written quote on every job, with no call-out charge and no obligation.

Tree services in Durham

Domestic and commercial tree work. We inspect the site, explain what needs doing and why, then quote a fixed price.

Tree felling

Full tree removal, including sectional dismantling where access is tight or targets are nearby.

Crown reduction & thinning

Reduce height or spread to keep trees in proportion with the site, letting more light in.

Crown lifting

Raise the lower canopy to clear buildings, vehicles, paths and sight lines.

Deadwood & pollarding

Remove dead or unsafe branches, or bring trees back under control with regular pollarding.

Stump grinding

Grind stumps below ground level so the area can be re-turfed, seeded or paved over.

Hedge trimming & removal

Trim, reduce or remove overgrown hedges, including leylandii and conifer screens.

Site clearance

Clear overgrown gardens, scrub, brambles and unwanted growth. Green waste taken away.

Storm damage & emergencies

Make dangerous or fallen trees safe. Priority response for urgent callouts across County Durham.

Specialist tree removal

Planning a specific job? Read the right service page before you enquire.

How it works

Straightforward from quote to clean-up.

1

Contact us

Send the form with the tree's location, what is nearby, and any access restrictions.

2

Free inspection

We visit the site, assess the work and give a fixed written quote. No obligation.

3

Work done

The job is carried out safely, then all timber, branches and green waste are taken away.

4

Site left clean

We leave the site tidy and the stump ground out if required, so the area is usable again.

Why choose a Durham tree surgeon

What you get with every job, and the things worth asking any tree surgeon about.

Fully insured

Public liability cover on every job, domestic and commercial.

Fixed written quotes

You know the price before work starts. No call-out charge, no surprises.

Sectional dismantling

Trees close to houses, walls and power lines are climbed and lowered in pieces, not felled onto the garden.

Waste taken away

Timber, brash and green waste leave the site with us. Keep the logs if you want them.

Permission handled

We check for Tree Preservation Orders and Conservation Area rules before any work starts.

Emergency response

Storm damage and unsafe trees are prioritised across County Durham.

What Durham customers say

What folks say after we've been out to the job.

Storm brought half a tree down over our garage roof and I was proper panicking. They came out that week, looked at it, told us a price and that was it, no messing about. The tree surgeon got the rest of it down in sections so nothing else got damaged, and you'd never have known they'd been there after they took the timber away. Sound lads.

★★★★★ M. Dixon Chester-le-Street

Had this big old sycamore at the end of the garden that was getting right over the fence, and honestly nobody else would even come and look at it. These came out free, had a proper look round, and had it down and the stump ground out before I'd even got the kettle boiled. Garden's dead tidy now, like a different place.

★★★★★ S. & T. Lowery Durham

Our house is in the conservation area so I thought we'd be at it for months trying to get anything done. They sorted the TPO check, told us straight what we could and couldn't do, and the crown reduction was a really tidy job. Fair play, would definitely use them again.

★★★★★ J. Patterson Bishop Auckland

We had a proper jungle of overgrown hedges that had been left for years, and they got through the lot in a day. Turned up first thing, worked steady, and took all the green waste away with them. No mess in the street, no faff, just a clear garden at the end of it. Canny job, canny price.

★★★★★ K. Whitfield Lanchester

We're building on to the back of the house and had a load of trees and scrub in the way that needed clearing before the digger could get in. They came and looked at the site, gave us a price, and got it all shifted in a couple of days. Even ground the stumps out so we had a clean bit of ground for the foundations. Dead straightforward to deal with from start to finish.

★★★★★ P. & L. Richardson Newton Aycliffe

Just wanted a couple of big conifers lifted so we could see out the front window again, and a few dead branches off the apple tree. They turned up when they said they would, didn't charge the earth, and the garden's so much brighter now. The wife's well happy, which is the main thing.

★★★★★ G. Armstrong Consett

A sample of the kind of feedback we get from jobs across Durham and County Durham.

Common questions

Straight answers about permission, quotes, waste and emergency work.

Most trees in a garden do not need permission, but trees in Conservation Areas or with a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) do. Durham City, Chester-le-Street, Bishop Auckland, Lanchester and Brandon are all Conservation Areas. We check before any work starts and handle the paperwork. See our guide to Tree Preservation Orders and Conservation Areas.

Yes. We inspect the site and give a fixed written quote with no call-out charge and no obligation.

Yes. Timber, branches and green waste are removed from site as part of the job unless you ask to keep the logs.

Durham city and the surrounding County Durham area, including Chester-le-Street, Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland, Consett, and the villages in between.

Urgent callouts are prioritised. Tell us what has happened and we will give you a time frame for the day. See our guide to what to do after storm damage.

Typical felling costs in Durham range from about £150-£400 for a small tree up to 5m, £400-£900 for a medium tree, and £900-£2,500 for a large tree that needs sectional dismantling. The price depends mainly on access, what is nearby, and how the waste is handled. See our tree felling cost guide for the full breakdown.

Yes. Where a tree is close to a building we use sectional dismantling: the tree is climbed and lowered in pieces rather than felled in one go. This is standard for most garden trees in Durham.

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