Tree House

Ha ha hah! Tiny house!

Nice to be close to nature,but there is a limit ! ..:o)

Oh my! lolol

What came first . . the tree or the house? :-))

I see young cedars planted right next to houses and cringe. That pic is the ultimate...

:)

Hope if they have a dog,it gets a bit further than the tree, for relief ! :o)

Blinking Dinks lol:)

Lol, ''hi honey I'm home....hey where are you?'', ''hi dear, didn't hear you, I was in the other room?''

Do you think the tree has a conservation order on it??

I get the feeling from the picture that stepping through the front door is simultaneous to stepping out of the back door.

Lol:)

You are all too funny!!
Good question Linda. I wouldn't be surprised if it did!

Oooh! That's close!

''and another thing, I told you not to plant that bloody tree, oh no you said, we'll only be here for a couple of years then we'll trade up to a bigger place''

''come on love we've got a bedroom and a living/dining/study/kitchen/reception room what more do we need''?

''ok love sorry, didn't mean to raise my voice, its just sometimes the ten kids get a bit under my feet''

Lol Stevie, I didn't realize you had been married ;)

so you've decided I have been married AND divorced!!?!

Ummmm, yessssss..... :\

They could have built a tree house Stevie. :o)

Having just had subsidence fixed in our house due to our street tree causing major problems, this pic. did make me laugh!!

I read that subsidence is caused by the tree taking all the water out of the soil, worst on clay, so that it shrinks. Most people think it's the roots themselves, but apparently not always.

Well 7, the roots were under our foundations and we are on clay soil and then they take up all the moisture, we had our house monitored for over a year before anything could be done, it took a total of 4 years to get sorted.

That sure is a little house. I wonder whose bright idea that was ! The tree looks quite old so it must have been there first. We have a scots pine not far from our back door which is very very old, but the roots go straight down looking for water as ours is sandy soil. (so I've been told!)
I'll have to put a picture of it on my page.

4 years GM, crikey. Was that because you had to make a claim against the council over their tree? What was the eventual work that solved it?

Yes 7, loads of letters back and forth, via insurance co. they had to dig up our path under the windows and take soil samples, that took over a year, they needed the four seasons to evaluate damage. Then they had to contact the council to take the tree down, that took ages, more letters etc. then our house was fixed and it is now fine! It is so much better without the tree invading our home, the branches were five feet from our front windows.

Glad it's ended well after that protraction GM, lucky it wasn't listed...

Screeeeeeaaaammmm ! So glad it wasnt too!!

What would that have meant if it were listed?

Hi Lil, A tree has a preservation order put on it so that nothing can happen to it, ie. be taken down, pruned. lopped etc.......

Got this from google.
What is a tree preservation order?

It is an order made by the Council which in general makes it an offence to cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy a tree without the planning authority's permission

Ah ok, thanks Gill. Understand the scream now!! :)

Lol :~) That would have meant also that we would never be able to move from here even in old age(approaching fast!) because no body would want to buy our house!

I'm all for the preservation of green space, but sometimes it can be taken too far.

Only Lil if the tree is in the right place, say in a park/field or open space. Sometimes people do it to b....minded.

house looks so tiny next to tree Lil, but tree must have been there first judging by the size, so more fool them for building next to it :o))

Think you are right Sandra, though the house really is tiny :)