Cedar Hills, Utah
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When a Cedar Hills backyard has failed, we tear it out, fix the grading and drainage underneath, then rebuild the walls, patio, sprinklers and planting on solid ground.
“They leveled our yard and placed a pickleball court, patio, fire pit, and artificial grass. It looks great.”
“they will definitely be my go to landscaper for many years!”
Backyard Rebuild in Cedar Hills
Some yards cannot be saved with a new layer of sod. The patio has sunk, a wall is leaning, water sits against the foundation every spring and half the sprinkler zones have quit. On a Cedar Hills bench lot, those problems usually share one cause underneath: grade and water. A rebuild strips the yard back to dirt and fixes that before anything new goes on top.
Slope is the big one here. This town knows what moving ground looks like, after a recurring landslide forced evacuations in 2005. Most backyard failures are far smaller than that, but the lesson holds. Water that is not carried off a slope finds its own way, under patios, behind walls and into basements. Rebuilding a yard on a slope starts with where the water goes.
Failed walls are the other common reason we get called. If the old wall went in without a permit, it may need to come out, and its replacement needs an installation permit even under 48 inches. Taller walls need an engineer's stamp. We also check whether the old wall sits in the 5 foot easement most lots have, since that changes where the new one can go.
Cedar Hills calls itself Utah's mile-high city, a family town on the bench at the mouth of American Fork Canyon where even a short retaining wall needs a permit, the secondary water is metered, and hillside lots in The Cedars and Canyon Heights follow their own grading rules.
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The Cedar Hills challenges
Over time, soil settles along the foundation and the yard starts tipping toward the house. Add a patio poured flat or pitched the wrong way and snowmelt runs straight into the window wells. Fixing it means regrading, not just adding a downspout extension.
A leaning wall usually has no drain rock and no pipe behind it. Water builds up, freezes and shoves the top out a little more each winter. Patching the face does nothing about the push behind it. The wall has to be rebuilt with drainage.
Each owner adds a zone, moves a head or caps a line. After a while nobody knows what runs where, and leaks waste metered water all summer. In a rebuild we usually replace the system, so you get a clean layout and a map of it.
Low spots filled with loose dirt keep settling. On an alluvial fan the ground can vary inside one yard, and soft pockets show up as dips in the lawn or cracks in a slab. We dig those out and replace them with compacted fill.
The J&H approach
Before we price anything, we walk the yard, trace where water comes from and where it goes, check the walls and run the sprinklers. The quote names what failed and why, so you are not paying to rebuild the same problem.
We remove the failed patio, wall, sod and old pipe, then regrade the lot so water moves away from the house and off the slope. Soft spots get dug out and replaced with fill placed and compacted in thin layers.
New walls get the installation permit and, over 4 feet, an engineer's stamp. The patio goes on compacted road base, the sprinklers go in with new zones, and planting comes last. You get a yard built on fixed ground, not on top of the old problem.
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What homeowners say
"We had a really big project (full lot project) and a crazy timeline, and Jackson and his team were awesome. They are very efficient, work hard to get things done quick, and the quality of their work is top-notch. Great company. Great guys. I would highly recommend them for any landscaping needs."
"Jackson and his crew did a phenomenal job on our back yard. I had a vision and they brought it to life. We had them do a retaining wall, grading, underground trampoline, sprinkler system, and sod. They met deadlines, communication was on point, and the whole crew was friendly.…"
"…The job was completed quickly without sacrificing quality, and the results exceeded our expectations. We would absolutely hire this team again and recommend them to anyone looking for landscaping help."
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