Tag: Trip Stop
Helping trees and sidewalks work together
By Brighton West
After reading a Friends of Trees blog post about TripStop, a new technology that allows sidewalks to flex when roots grow underneath, homeowner Fred Russell decided to give it a try.
Fred lives at the corner of SE 80th and Salmon in Portland. He hired Sidewalk Solutions to replace the sidewalk on the 80th Avenue side of his house. Sidewalk Solutions removed the old sidewalk, narrowed it by one foot, used gravel to raise the sidewalk above the roots, then installed TripStop. Watch this 40-second video to see it being installed.
–West is Deputy Director of Friends of Trees.
Extend the life of your sidewalk
By Brighton West
Tree roots under sidewalks can be a problem. Maybe it’s the wrong tree in the wrong place. Or maybe it’s the right tree in the right place, but unlucky soil conditions caused a root to grow right under a sidewalk. The result is the same: broken sidewalks.
At this fall’s Arbor Day Foundation Partners in Community Forestry conference in Orlando, I found a product that looks promising. It’s called TripStop, and it allows a sidewalk panel to pivot over a growing root.