Basement Finishing, Interior Painting & Yards in Saratoga Springs, Utah

The median Saratoga Springs home was built in 2012; two-thirds of households have children; and the city expects to more than double again to 120,000 people. Builders here routinely deliver homes with unfinished basements and, in many subdivisions, full fencing — so the work we do is inside first: finishing basements into bedrooms, bathrooms and family rooms, replacing builder-grade paint and carpet, and updating the first wave of 2000s homes that are now twenty years old.

Outside, the city has the most complete secondary-water setup in the county: every one of its 10,000-plus pressurized irrigation connections has been metered since 2015, billed on tiered rates by irrigable area, charged the week of April 15 and shut off the week of October 15, with no watering from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sprinkler systems here have been on the meter for a decade, so efficiency isn’t theoretical. The ground is lake-adjacent clay with poor drainage in many areas, which shapes how we grade yards and prepare concrete bases.

Saratoga Springs sets deadlines for new-home landscaping — front yards within a year of occupancy, rear yards within two — and requires at least 25% of front-yard landscaping to be planting rather than rock, with park strips at least 30% planted. Artificial turf is allowed with an application. Fences are 3 ft in front and 6 ft on side and rear lines with no permit needed at 6 ft or under, and no chain link. The 2020 Knolls Fire that forced 13,000 people out of the Lake Mountain neighborhoods is why we take defensible space seriously on the west side.