Guide To Root Barriers
How are century root barriers installed?
CENTURY ROOT BARRIERS ROLLS VS PANELS
When looking for the right root barrier for your project, it’s important to decide if panels or rolls will work best for your landscaping needs.
Rolls are not only incredibly effective in diverting destructive tree roots from breaking up pavements, but they also have an added benefit of being a water barrier that prevents water from seeping under hardscapes.
Panels are easy to use and assembles in seconds with the interlocking slide-to-lock mechanism.
ROOT BARRIER ROLLS — RIBBED VS. RIBLESS
Ribbed: The ribs on Century Dual Purpose Root Barrier Rolls effectively deflect roots, directing them away from hardscapes. This design also ensures secure installation, keeping the barrier intact and in place for long-lasting protection.
Ribless: Our Root Block Rolls are smooth and ribless, making them ideal for blocking invasive bamboo growth and preventing water seepage into hardscapes and pavements. Their streamlined design also ensures durability and secure placement.
CENTURY ROOT BLOCK BAMBOO BARRIER
Century Root Block is specially designed to effectively divert stubborn roots, including invasive bamboo species, protecting your hardscapes and landscapes from damage. Our Bamboo Barrier Roll is the premier solution to prevent invasive bamboo roots from infiltrating and damaging your garden and landscape.
INSTALLING ROOT BARRIERS LINEAR APPLICATION VS SURROUND APPLICATION
Did you know that a linear application of root barriers is the most effective and ideal way to install root barriers?
A linear application of root barriers ensures destructive, stubborn roots will not get under your hardscapes and cause costly, hazardous damage. Linear application is much faster and easier to install compared to a surround application around a tree. A linear application is the preferred and recommended way to install your root barrier.
A surround application of root barriers are an outdated, ineffective way to install root barriers. A surround application will yield a lack of foundation to support a tree, which often results in a tree slanting downwards. To avoid this devastating occurence, install your root barrier with a linear application to adequately support your tree and provide a enough space for the roots to grow safely and away from your hardscapes.
Century Products Clients
Century Projects
Leader in root barrier systems
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MARLINS STADIUM
Century Products delivered products directly to the site to be exclusively used throughout the entire state of the art stadium. This stadium was finally completed in March of 2012, ready for opening day the following month.
Our root barriers will protect thousands of fans coming and going from this incredible stadium from trip and fall hazards that occur when tree roots lift sidewalks and cause damage to hardscapes.
After such costly construction, the owners of Marlins Stadium wanted to make sure they got the best possible protection to sustain their beautiful new facility, which led them to choose Century Root Barriers when creating their stadium. -
LOS ANGELES ZOO
The zoo’s 133 acres are protected by Century Products to keep its patrons safe from trip or fall hazards through the use of our root barrier, used to prevent lifted or damaged hardscapes.
The Los Angeles zoo has gained the certification as a Botanical Garden and added such to their name in 2002. LA Zoo’s Botanical Gardens contain 800 different plant species with over 7,400 individual plants.Along with this new title came several other renovations to the zoo, including its parking lot and main entrance, in order to improve the quality of the environment for the facility and its surrounding areas
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LAS VEGAS / NEVADA
It was also one of the best supervised projects done of its magnitude. Every single piece of material was thoroughly inspected each step of the way by the architects in charge of this project.
Every product we supplied passed the rigorous inspection process and was used at this hotel to preserve and sustain the hard work that was done in planting 50 ton trees. Our root barriers will make sure that these enormous trees will not damage the surrounding hardscape for years to come.
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SYDNEY OLYMPIC CENTER
All facilities of the Olympic Centre and its surrounding cities underwent renovations to improve the look and safety of the facility for its locals, patrons and athletes.
Our root barrier rolls have been predominately used throughout Australia’s fast-growing urban centers, to protect the hardscapes and pedestrians from costly trip and fall hazards.
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PALO VERDERS / HILLSIDE
Our slope guard was designed by an L.A. Arborist to address the cost and hassle of planting trees on slopes and hillsides. Before our slope guards, the way of addressing this issue cost 75% more than it does now.
They used to use concrete or redwood guards which could cost upwards of $100 per tree dependent on size. Our cost effective slope guard addresses all of the big problems associated with hillside tree planting, can be used on any size tree and is extremely easy to install
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FORTH WORTH STOCKYARDS
With over 125 trees installed along the Fort Worth Stockyards and Mule Alley, the Century root barriers installed along with the trees will effectively preserve the historic hardscapes for many years to come.
Our root barriers are safely housing giant maple and oak trees along Mule Alley while protecting its precious, historic hardscapes by preventing costly damage from tree roots breaking up the newly brick-paved sidewalks and streets. Our 18″, 24″, 36″, and 48″ root barrier panels were prominently used in the restoration.
