Pleasant Grove, Utah
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We grade and build retaining walls on Pleasant Grove lots, from steep bench yards below Battle Creek to flat clay lots that hold water. Drainage goes in first.
“The team painstakingly put in a retaining wall that will stand for a hundred years.”
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Grading and Retaining Walls in Pleasant Grove
The bench above Pleasant Grove is made of debris that washed out of Grove Creek and Battle Creek canyons over a very long time. The city still runs debris-basin dams above town to catch what comes down. That tells you how the ground was built: water and rock moving downhill. Your yard wants to keep doing exactly that, and a good grade decides where it goes.
On a bench lot the job is usually terracing. We cut level spaces into the slope, hold them with walls, and give water a clear path around the house. Down on the valley floor the problem flips. The clay is flat and slow, water sits, and the yard turns soft every spring. There we shape gentle swales and add drains so the water has somewhere to go.
Walls are where homeowners get burned. In Pleasant Grove a wall over 4 feet, measured from the bottom of the footing, needs a building permit, and a hillside lot with an average slope over 15 percent brings sensitive-lands review and a land disturbance permit. We size walls with that in mind, and we talk to the city about your lot before we dig.
Pleasant Grove's bench lots sit on the alluvial fans below Grove Creek and Battle Creek, the exact ground built by debris coming out of the canyons, so how a yard grades and drains is the whole game.
Know your Pleasant Grove ground
The Pleasant Grove challenges
Dig into a Timpanogos bench lot and you hit cobbles, gravel and sometimes boulders bigger than a wheelbarrow. That ground drains well, which is good, but it is hard to cut clean and hard to compact evenly. We bring the right machine, sort the rock, and often set the big stones back into the wall or the beds.
Lake Bonneville clay on the flats holds water like a sponge. Wet clay pushes hard on the back of a wall, then freezes and pushes harder. That is why so many short walls around town lean. We backfill with drain rock, wrap it in fabric, and run perforated pipe out to daylight.
Pleasant Grove treats a lot with an average slope over 15 percent as hillside ground. That brings sensitive-lands review and a land disturbance permit on top of any wall permit. Plenty of Grove Creek and Battle Creek bench lots cross that line. We figure out where your lot sits before we draw a plan.
Builders grade for the house pad, not for a yard. On sloped lots we often find the yard draining back toward the foundation or into a window well. In a heavy snowmelt, that shows up in the basement. We reset the grade so water runs away from the house and leaves the lot safely.
The J&H approach
We walk the lot with you, after a storm if we can, and look at where water stands, where it cuts, and where it hits the house. On the bench we probe for rock. On the flats we check how slowly the clay drains. Then we draw the grade.
No wall goes in without a drain. Clean rock behind the block, fabric so the clay cannot plug it, and a pipe that carries water to a safe spot. Footings sit below frost, so Pleasant Grove freeze and thaw does not tip the wall forward.
If your wall is over 4 feet or the lot crosses the city's hillside slope line, we work that out with Pleasant Grove before the excavator shows up. Tall walls get engineering. Where two short terraced walls beat one tall one, we will show you both.
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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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