Landscape Planning Tips to Protect your Home
Homeowners using landscape planning can create great curb appeal to make their home more inviting. However, featuring plants around your home should not come at the cost of your home’s health. Here we will list some dos, don’ts, and landscape planning tips to avoid destruction.
Do’s
Landscaping can bring vitality and curb appeal to your yard and home, but as with anything in life, planning is the desirable approach. All trees, shrubs, and plants have unique requirements for space including, but not limited to, room for growth. In addition to giving ample room for plants to grow, homeowners should avoid plants known as “self clingers.”
Self clingers are characterized by plants that trail up walls and are often ones that have “suckers” or little mini spike branches. These mini branches tend to burrow under paint, vinyl siding, shingles, and more. Furthermore, these burrowing suckers take out natural moisture from the wall surface causing erosion.
Don’ts
When planning your landscaping project; don’t plant trees and shrubs too close to your home. Some root structures can lead to structural damage, by cracking the foundation to your home. Crushed plumbing piping is another example of damage root structures can potentially cause. Tree limbs which stretch over your roof is damage waiting to happen. Small sticks and leaves will gradually wear away your roof covering.
Vining plants should never be given the opportunity to reach the surface of your home. In addition to eroding the exterior as mentioned earlier, they can dislodge shingles, crack timbers, and create holes that encourage pests to enter and nest.
How to avoid damage with landscape planning?
As mentioned at the beginning of the article; landscape planning is key. To avoid damage from vining plants, offer an alternative base for the plant to climb and burrow. Additionally, is it necessary to give other plants enough room for their root systems to expand.
If your siding, deck, gutters, and roof have been damaged by landscaping, give Royalty a call at 800-303-8392 for a free estimate.
