I have a resident with a large cottonwood behind her home and she's having problems with the roots. The tree is around 80' which is about as tall as they grow out here. There are two large surface roots popping up right around the drip line. One is pushing up the concrete by her home and one is inside the shed. Apparently they are causing her tremendous amounts of distress for some reason.
She wants to cut down the tree and poison the roots because she's afraid the roots will keep growing and destroy her home. Or she just wants to cut the roots. The tree is perfectly healthy so my company is trying to avoid cutting it down. My question is, on a fully mature tree will these surface roots really grow much larger? and just cutting the two roots out would be enough to destabilize the tree and open it to infection no?
She wants to cut down the tree and poison the roots because she's afraid the roots will keep growing and destroy her home. Or she just wants to cut the roots. The tree is perfectly healthy so my company is trying to avoid cutting it down. My question is, on a fully mature tree will these surface roots really grow much larger? and just cutting the two roots out would be enough to destabilize the tree and open it to infection no?
