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Paver patios, walkways, fire features and outdoor kitchens across Springville, with a base built for the ground you have: lakebed clay out west, cobble on the east bench.
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Hardscaping and Concrete in Springville
In Springville we build patios two different ways, depending on which side of town you live on. Out on the west fields toward Utah Lake, and along the Hobble Creek bottoms, the ground is heavy lakebed clay that holds water and swells when it is wet. Up on the east bench along Canyon Road, it is gravelly fan soil full of cobbles. Same patio on top, two different jobs underneath.
Clay is the one that bites people. Expansive clay moves with moisture, and our freeze-thaw winters push it harder. A paver patio set on a thin layer of gravel over west-side clay will heave and dip inside a few years, and concrete will crack along its weakest line. On the bench the problem flips. The base drains fine, but cobbles and boulders slow the dig and leave voids if nobody fills them right.
So we price and build to your lot. On clay we over-excavate, lay fabric, compact a deep road-base section in lifts and drain it away from the house. On the bench we pull the big rock, fill and compact the holes, and grade for the sheet water that comes off the slope above. Then we set the pavers, the fire pit and the kitchen on top.
Springville, Art City, spreads from about 4,400 feet by Utah Lake up past 5,600 feet on the east bench, so a west-side clay yard and a bench view-lot are different soil, drainage and frost worlds, and one quote does not fit both.
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The Springville challenges
West-side Springville sits on lakebed clay laid down by Lake Bonneville. It swells when wet, shrinks when dry, and takes water slowly. A patio poured or set on a thin base over it rides that movement. You see it as a step lifting away from the door, or a crack that opens wider every winter.
East-bench neighborhoods like East Hobble Creek and Glenwood Place sit on alluvial fan soil carried out of the canyon. It drains well but it is packed with cobble and the odd boulder. Digging takes longer, and a rock pulled out of the base leaves a hole that has to be filled and compacted, not just raked over.
The Hobble Creek bottoms sit over a seasonally high water table. Ground that looks dry in August can be soft in April. A patio base that sits in water through the spring loses strength and settles, and footings for a kitchen or seat wall need the same care.
A patio on the bench is often downhill from a lot of open ground. In a hard rain or a fast snowmelt, sheet water crosses the yard and hits the patio edge. Without a plan to catch it, that water runs under the pavers and washes the sand out of the joints.
The J&H approach
On clay lots we dig deeper, lay geotextile fabric, and build a road-base section in compacted lifts. The finished patio falls away from the house, and where the clay will not take the water, we add a drain to carry it off the lot.
On bench lots we pull cobble and boulders out of the patio area, fill those voids with compacted base, and reuse the better rock in walls or beds. Uphill of the patio we cut a swale or set a channel drain to catch slope water.
Fire pits and outdoor kitchens get their own compacted footings. Near the canyon mouth, where evening air drains down out of Hobble Creek Canyon, we set fire features behind seat walls or the house so the flame stays upright and the smoke drifts away from your doors.
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"…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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