A very large and old tree split and fell onto my neighbor's house. The tree limb needed to be urgently removed from their house and the remainder of the tree, which had significant rotting, needed to be removed. Maltby tree contracted for the urgent limb removal as well as the removal of the entire tree.
On October 12, 2016 Maltby tree removed the limb from the roof, but left 1/2 the tree and a very, very large limb on my lawn. Craig from Maltby said they would return 1 week later to complete the job. On the morning Maltby was to return, Craig told me that the power company, Eversource, had ordered them to halt the job until they could do an inspection. I asked for the contact person at Eversource and Craig told me he didn't know who to speak with although he had spoken with them. I contacted Craig several times over the next few days and finally, on October 21, Craig provided me with the contact at Eversource. I reached the Eversource contact immediately, who told me that they had already inspected the tree and had spoken with Craig and gave the okay for Maltby to finish the job. I also spoke with the city arborist who informed me the remaining tree was extremely dangerous and should be removed immediately as it was not stable. The city arborist told me he had spoken to Craig at Maltby about the tree hazard. I spoke with Craig that day, October 21, and he informed me that the tree was not a hazard and Maltby would not return to complete the removal until December 12, 2016. I relayed what the city arborist said about immediate removal and Craig told me that if I wanted it removed sooner, I could contract with another company for emergency removal as he did not consider it an emergency. I asked about removing the large limb that was left on my lawn (and killing my vegetation), and he said he would see about it. Multiple phone calls and texts from myself and neighbors about the urgency of the tree produced no results. On November 7, 2016, the city arborist and an arborist from Eversource came to inspect the tree again. Both the city and Eversource arborist expressed that the tree was extremely dangerous and needed to be removed immediately. I explained that I had been trying for about a month to get Maltby to complete the job and had expressed the danger and urgency of the situation to Craig with no result. Eventually, Eversource decided to remove the tree and completed the job on November 18, 2016. Maltby did not complete the contracted job in a timely manner and left an unstable hazardous tree standing in spite of pleas from myself, my neighbors, the city arborist, and Eversource to remove the tree immediately for the safety of myself and my neighbors. read more