The Master Arborist Awards and below list is about promoting the Top Rated Tree Service in Boston, MA and taking the guess work out of hiring.
We want you the customer to easily find the 10 local tree services most likely to give a great service at reasonable prices.
There are a few ways we could have compiled this list.
Instead of taking the traditional route of getting residents to vote (which is usually just friends of the business owner voting), we decided to use all online customer reviews and use those along with other metrics to calculate the 2020 winner.
Years of experience, number of reviews and average score.
Taking a mathematical approach (see the formula used below results) we gave each local tree service a score.
Other minimum criteria to qualify include:
20 reviews
5 years in business
2 sources of customer reviews.
(E.g. Google review and Yelp, but most have 3 – 4 sources.)
Below we go into more detail about the selection process, formula used and the reasoning behind it to find this years winners.
And the winners are…
Company | Details | Avg. Rating | GTQ score | Place | |||
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Visit Website Reviews: 267 | 5.00 | 262 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 193 | 4.50 | 243 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 171 | 4.73 | 215 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 133 | 4.70 | 193 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 126 | 4.20 | 185 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 124 | 4.66 | 170 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 91 | 4.95 | 126 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 360 | 4.43 | 125 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 157 | 4.80 | 106 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 66 | 4.90 | 86 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 15 | 5.00 | 68 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 121 | 4.97 | 67 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 30 | 4.95 | 56 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 77 | 5.00 | 32 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 15 | 4.65 | 20 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 24 | 5.00 | 18 |
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Visit Website Reviews: 13 | 4.80 | 13 |
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5.00
(267)
Serve Tampa, FL
14 years in business
4.50
(193)
Serve Tampa, FL
20 years in business
4.73
(171)
Serve Tampa, FL
19 years in business
4.70
(133)
Serve Tampa, FL
22 years in business
4.20
(126)
Serve Tampa, FL
25 years in business
4.66
(124)
Serve Tampa, FL
21 years in business
4.93
(91)
Serve Tampa, FL
20 years in business
4.95
(360)
Serve Tampa, FL
5 years in business
4.80
(157)
Serve Tampa, FL
10 years in business
4.90
(66)
Serve Tampa, FL
19 years in business
5.00
(15)
Serve Tampa, FL
65 years in business
4.97
(121)
Serve Tampa, FL
8 years in business
4.95
(30)
Serve Tampa, FL
27 years in business
5.00
(77)
Serve Tampa, FL
6 years in business
4.65
(15)
Serve Tampa, FL
20 years in business
5.00
(24)
Serve Tampa, FL
11 years in business
4.80
(13)
Serve Tampa, FL
15 years in business
To qualify to make the list, you needed to have a minimum of 20 reviews total across a minimum of 2 different platforms. This can be Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yellow Pages, Angie’s List, Home advisor, or any other 3rd party review platform. Curated reviews taken on personal websites were not counted.
The company needed to be in business for a minimum of 5 years.
We feel that years in operation is a big factor as it speaks volumes about the competence of the business as a whole. A lot of the businesses on the list have been in business for 10 years or more.
The GoTreeQuotes rating is a mathematical formula that takes into account the number for year in business, the number of reviews, as well as the average score.
We believe the provenance of a company and the number of reviews, is just as important as the average score. Just as long as that average score does not dip too much below the 4.0 mark.
The formula used:
Years in business X number of reviews / 1000 X Average score = GTQ rating
Example:
17 x 247/ 1000 x 4.95 = 208
Taking into account all three performance indicators of a business gives us a pretty accurate look at the overall satisfaction of customers while the tree service has been operating.
We found this to be the fairest and most precise way to do things.
Below are some more details on the companies in order as they appear on the list above.
The average cost of tree removal is $871, while the average cost of tree trimming is $433.
These numbers will vary greatly depending on the size of your tree(s) and what work needs to be done. The real range is anywhere from $250 right up to $4,900.
Trees in hard-to-access properties will cost more to remove than a tree in a front yard with easy access. Please view our tree removal cost guide for more details.
An arborist can perform a wide variety of services including tree removal, tree trimming, palm trimming. root pruning, risk and hazard assessment, and treatment of disease.
That can also provide written arborist reports to present to the council for tree removal permit applications.
If you ask a tree service 95% of the time they would be happy to give you the wood chips that were created from your tree being removed. Most of the time tree services struggle to get rid of them. Larger companies will store them and sell them for a profit, but very few. Others give them to landscape suppliers free, who then sell them to the public.
This will depend on the size of the tree being trimmed, the number of branches you would like to remove, and the location of the tree on your property. The average price for tree trimming is $433, but for palm tree trimming it’s $75. You will need to get a quote from your local tree service to get an accurate price.
This can cost anywhere from $100 – $500 depending on the size of the stump. The most time-consuming part of stump removal is getting rid of the timber shavings created in the stump removal process. A lot of the time you can negotiate with your local tree service about leaving the shavings for a reduced price.
Adelaide Councils are fairly relaxed when it comes to tree removal laws. There is a good chance you can remove your tree without approval. You will need to first check the Tree Preservation Order for your local council. If your tree is not considered significant and is not protected you may remove it.
Tree removal and pruning are tricky to quote just by a description. Depending on the size of the tree and difficulty to remove, the price will fluctuate up or down. An on-site inspection is needed to make sure you are given a fair price and the tree service is prepared on the day with the correct machinery.
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