Lehi, Utah
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A plain guide to hiring a landscaping company in Lehi, from the clay flats by Thanksgiving Point to the Traverse Mountain benches, with the questions worth asking first.
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Most people start by asking a few companies for a price. That is fine, but in Lehi the price tells you less than the first five minutes of the visit. A good landscaper will ask where your lot sits, how the yard drains when the snow melts and if your HOA has given you a finish date. A crew that skips those questions is guessing, and you pay for the guess later.
Lehi is a hard town to bid from a truck window. The flats around Holbrook Farms and Ivory Ridge sit on heavy, alkaline clay that holds water. Up on Traverse Mountain the ground is gravel, often over fill dirt from when the house pad was built. The same patio, lawn or wall needs a different base on each one. A bid that reads the same for both is a warning sign on its own.
This page is the list we would hand a friend who just bought in Lehi. It covers what to look for, the shortcuts we see crews take here and the questions to ask before you sign. At the bottom we show how J&H stacks up, using numbers you can check, so you can judge us by the same list.
What to look for
Ask how they will prep the ground. On Lehi clay that should mean ripping the packed subsoil and adding real topsoil before sod. On the benches it should mean checking for loose fill. If the answer is just that they lay sod, keep looking, because the lawn will show it by the second summer.
New Lehi neighborhoods often give you a set window to finish the front yard. A good company will build the front first if needed and run sprinkler lines toward the back, so phase two does not mean digging up phase one. Ask them to put the order of work in writing.
Lehi's secondary water runs April 15 to October 15, and the city now meters it. Ask how they will zone the yard for sun, shade and slope. A crew that puts the whole lawn on a couple of zones will drown the shady side just to keep the sunny side green.
Utah soil is alkaline, and some plants that look great at the garden center turn yellow and quit in Lehi. Ask what they plan to plant and why it fits. A good answer names plants that handle our soil and a zone 7a winter, with tender ones held until mid-May.
What goes wrong in Lehi
On new Lehi lots, trucks pack the ground hard. Some crews rake a thin layer over it, roll out sod and leave. Roots cannot get down, water runs off and the lawn turns patchy by August. Then you water more, and on a metered system you pay for every extra gallon.
Clay drains slowly, so the shape of the yard has to do the work. We see yards where the dirt slopes back to the foundation or into window wells, or where a new bed dams water against the house. It looks fine on install day. You find out in the first wet spring.
On Traverse Mountain lots, the quick fix for a slope is one big wall. In Lehi, a wall over 4 feet, measured from the bottom of the footing, needs a permit and an engineered design. A crew that stacks block past that line with no paperwork leaves the risk with you when you sell.
Why Lehi picks J&H
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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