Tree roots are lifting my driveway
A ridge or hump running roughly toward the trunk; slabs tipped up at a lip you catch a toe on; cracks radiating from one corner; a driveway edge riding up while the center stays flat; asphalt domed with fine alligator cracking over the high point. Underneath it is almost always one or two large buttress roots, not a mat of fine ones.
Not urgent
A root adds diameter every year and concrete does not move aside, so it comes down to which is stronger, and a live structural root beats four inches of unreinforced slab. This is a property-damage and trip-hazard problem, not a tree-failure problem, and the tree is usually in good health. The important inversion is that the repair is what creates the hazard: the roots lifting your driveway are the buttress roots on one side of the trunk, and cutting them is precisely how a stable tree becomes an unstable one.
What it usually costs
Normally a tree removal job: $400 to $1,900 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
Tree roots are lifting my driveway by town
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Indianapolis56
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Carmel42
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Fishers49
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Noblesville32
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Westfield33
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Zionsville37
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Greenwood26
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Avon27
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Plainfield24
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Brownsburg25
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Speedway48
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Lawrence61
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Beech Grove48
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Greenfield29
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in McCordsville45
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Fortville45
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in New Palestine43
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Cumberland45
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Franklin19
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Bargersville27
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Mooresville25
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Camby24
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Martinsville12
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Danville23
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Pittsboro30
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Whitestown31
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Lebanon19
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Sheridan25
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Cicero31
- Tree roots are lifting my driveway in Shelbyville14
Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- The top of my tree is dying
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent