Van Dyke's Tree Care Ltd

Van Dyke Tree Care has been looking after our property for over 35 years. Last week, a large tree suddenly came down during the night on our property, fell across the width of our backyard and damaged our swimming pool. Thanks to the special efforts of Jennifer and Rita to my SOS, a lucky fluke with scheduling and the authorization from Larry Van Dyke, the amazing team of Mike, Ryan, Liam and Danny worked through the pouring rain, the next day, to remove the tree from our property. I cannot say enough good things about this company and its staff, who all went above and beyond to help us within a very tight timeline. I highly recommend Van Dyke's for all your tree care needs!!

We asked them to remove a vine which had overgrown on many trees in ours and our neighbours backyards, including from a beautiful and old blue spruce tree. They came and ripped our beautiful blue spruce in half while one of their workers was still halfway up the tree! He was injured and it could have been way worse! They were clearly in a rush the whole time, they ignored me when I told them to be careful with our tree and they acted dangerously! Hire them at your own risk!

Further, we verbally agreed with them that they would remove all of the vines AND the roots of the vine from all of the trees on mine and my neighbours property. They then sneakily provided my mother a work order stating that they were only removing the vine from a single blue spruce tree and the workers left the vine growing on all of the surrounding trees. When I called them to ask why they only did half of the job, they stated we should look at the work order, which of course did not properly state the work we verbally agreed to. Very sneaky.

Van Dyke's was wonderful to deal with! From Rita in the office to Larry and team who came on site. They were very knowledgeable, responsive and thorough. We had a VERY large old Maple removed in the front and a couple of smaller trees in the back, along with quite a bit of pruning. They ensured all debris was removed and the stumps were grinned down. Thanks guys!

We had two trees in our backyard that had become a hazard to our home and that of our neighbours because of their extraordinary height and the possibility of limbs breaking off during one of the summer wind storms. The arborist from Van Dyck investigated and agreed with out concerns, leaving us with a carefully detailed estimate, together with papers to show they were fully covered by insurance. Their crew (who are certified for working at heights) arrived on the appointed day and completed the safe pruning and removal of the branches in a timely manner, leaving the property looking none the worse for wear--Thanks, guys!

I have called for my plum tree a month ago when it was completely dormant ready for application of pesticides and asked for a certain product botani guard and this company is yet to give me a proper quote and my tree is has fully grown leaves and is almost bearing fruits with no prevention of pests . I’m very dissatisfied as I have called multiple times and they have told me that rob their arborist is busy giving estimates to other people. I would never recommend this company to anyone!!!

We had a maple tree that had some branches that were dying and some discoloration in the leaves. We had Van Dykes come out to inspect the tree in August and said it was suffering from root girdling. They recommended that they come back do an air spade inspection and remove the girdling roots and quoted $265 plus tax. They came back three months later, removed about 3 inches of dirt around the trunk and said that if they cut the root the tree will die so they left it. The whole process took less that 15 minutes and I was charged almost $300. We I emailed to discuss my concerns, they did not reply.

Van Dyke's were prompt in visiting and providing a Quotation and when scheduled the work was done fast and carefully, I would reccomend them to anyone needing tree removal and assistance with pruning for future good growth patterns.

Robert

Don Mills

As a gardener tending homeowners' properties I sometimes have to call in arborists. Not all companies will do small pruning jobs or work in the older parts of the city. Van Dykes recently came to a client's narrow garden to (1)remove several small to medium trees that were growing close to hydro lines and through phone wires and (2)remove a large branch growing over the roof. In other words, pruning jobs that required some care. Van Dykes' price was very reasonable. They did the work so neatly, including grinding out the stumps, that I could hardly tell they'd been on site. I would not hesitate to use them again.