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Buying a house with Common Lime Tree in front.
crisp
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The house is a late Victorian house (yet to visit).
The tree is about 40 ft tall and located on the pavement about 6ft from the front boundary wall and in total 22 ft from the front of the house itself.
Would this put you off taking it further for either structural or sap issues now or in the future?
The tree is about 40 ft tall and located on the pavement about 6ft from the front boundary wall and in total 22 ft from the front of the house itself.
Would this put you off taking it further for either structural or sap issues now or in the future?
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Nope. Maybe if i really didn't want to clear up autumn leaves, but even then, not a big deal.0
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Just don't park under it, sticky deposits and bird poo all over your car!0
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The sap would put me off. My sister lived on a lime tree lined street - nightmare visiting in the summer - even visiting for a couple of hours, the car got covered in sticky sap and would need cleaning. Has put me off living near lime trees.0
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A common lime tree? Hmmmm....
Is this a HA tree, levered surreptitiously into the local landscape by well-meaning, leftie jobsworths?
Tilia europaea? It's name suggests interference from Brussels too. Well, in a couple of years it'll probably be firewood.
Meanwhile, I would expect trouble, with nasty deposits on one's car, being just the visible aspects. Noise in the form of loud rustling will also occur frequently, and it will litter uncontrollably in the autumn. Typical lower class tree behaviour, I'm afraid.
If you can stand the problems for a few years until full Brexit, go ahead. This is the sort of thing that Teresa and Boris will sort out, long term. So, could be a great investment. As Alvin Hall once famously said, "Buy when others are tree-fearful."
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I'd say go ahead. Will be great to have yr own limes for kaiperineas0
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These are not fruiting lime trees
What about structural issues or overplayed?
Its centre front as opposed to left or right side of the house.0
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