Checking a photo costs you nothing. When it turns out to be knotweed, we come and survey it, set out the options for spraying or digging it out, and write the report your lender or solicitor needs to see. Surveys from £275.
Most of the plants people photograph for us are not knotweed at all.
Snap one leaf, a bit of stem and the whole plant if you can. We answer without sending a bill. We only suggest a visit when it really is knotweed, and you see the price in writing before anything is booked.
The canes die back and turn brown from October, and the border looks tidy. Below ground the rhizome carries on. Come the spring it returns wider than before.
Inside every survey:
Things we do not charge for:
Reports follow RICS guidance on Japanese knotweed and residential property. Take it to any contractor you like.
Cleared mill sites, infill plots between the terraces and older rented streets are where a stand gets expensive. We survey the ground, draft the method statement and carry out the spraying or excavation.
A spraying programme over a few seasons if you have the time, a dig-out if you do not, and buried membrane where the stand is on land you cannot reach. Every load of waste leaves with the right transfer paperwork.
Most calls from Stockport start with one of these situations.
Gardens that back onto an old canal line, a rail embankment or the Mersey, Goyt and Tame valleys are the ones that meet knotweed most. A survey shows how far it has come over the boundary.
Pink spears with curled leaves pushing out beside a garage, shed or gatepost from April are what most people notice first.
The TA6 form asks about knotweed outright. Getting a plan together before listing is far less stressful than scrambling once a valuer has mentioned it.
A foundation trench cut through a stand can drag rhizome across the whole plot. Have it dealt with before the builder turns up.
Often from a void house, a rental or a cleared mill site. What you need is a dated record of where it is and when you raised it.
Shoots forcing through slabs, tarmac or a block-paved drive hint at rhizome underneath. Plot it before anyone relays the surface.
Stockport grew on hats and cotton. Mills and hat works filled the Mersey valley, rows of terraces were packed in around them, the great brick viaduct carried the railway over the top, and when the works closed many sites were knocked down and left. Disturbed ground, railway edges and river banks are exactly where knotweed does well.
A survey shows whether it started in your garden or has crossed from the plot beyond the fence.
One leaf and a stretch of stem is enough. Use the contact form or message us. It costs nothing.
If it is knotweed, we visit, measure the stand and note what is close to it.
A programme across several seasons, or digging it out when the date will not move.
A written plan for you and your lender, then return visits until nothing regrows.
Send a photo through the contact page or give us a ring. Knotweed or not, you get a straight answer and no invoice.
Addresses across SK1 to SK8, covering the town centre and every district out to the Peak District edge and the Cheshire borders. We work out of Stockport, so a visit anywhere in the borough can normally be booked inside the same week.
Sending a photo is free. The report belongs to you. We agree the price before we lift a spade or a sprayer.
Knotweed on building plots