Checking a photo is free. When it is knotweed, we come out to survey it, arrange spraying or excavation, and supply the paperwork a mortgage lender or conveyancer asks for. Site surveys from £275.
A good share of the plants people send us turn out to be something else.
Snap one leaf and one piece of stem, then send them in. You get an answer for nothing. We only suggest a visit if the plant is knotweed, and you see the price in writing before you agree to anything.
When the canes turn brown in winter it looks as though the problem has passed. It has not. The rhizome carries on underground and the patch is wider every spring.
Included in the survey:
Things you are never charged for:
Reports are laid out the way lenders expect to see knotweed recorded on residential property. Take it to any contractor you like.
The centre sits at the meeting of the Weaver and the Dane, with black-and-white timber buildings, the Weaver Navigation and the canal close by. Yards, service lanes and riverside plots behind the shops are the sort of edge land where knotweed goes unnoticed.
A survey shows whether the stand started on your side of the boundary or came in from beyond it.
Also covering the rest of Northwich — same price, same service.
Send a picture through the contact page or give us a ring. Whether it is knotweed or not, you hear back at no cost.
Covering the CW8 and CW9 postcodes: Northwich town centre, Hartford, Davenham, Barnton, Winnington, Wincham, Rudheath, Lostock Gralam and Weaverham. Based close to Northwich, so a site visit can normally be fitted in within a few days.
Free photo check. Report is yours to keep. Written price before any work.
Most plots here are small: yards behind shops, flats above commercial units, and narrow gardens near the river. Knotweed is most likely along service lanes, car park edges and the banks beside the Weaver and Dane, where cleared ground is left to scrub. Look at areas that see little maintenance, such as the backs of fences and unused corners. A stand may be on land you do not own, so first find out who looks after it.
If you live in a flat or let a unit, tell the managing agent or freeholder rather than treating the plant yourself. For canal or river edge land, ask the body that manages it, which may be different from your landlord. Take dated photos and keep them. Anyone buying in the centre should ask about shared yards and boundaries, because responsibility is often split between several owners and nobody has dealt with the plant.
