Project · Sandy, UT
An Overgrown Sandy Yard, Rebuilt Front to Back
An older Sandy home had grown over, and the sprinklers had never really covered. Here's how a four-to-five-person SLC crew enlarged the beds, replanted front and back, set placement boulders, and rebuilt the irrigation in about two weeks.
- Sandy, UT
- Project location
- October 2026
- Completed
- 4–5-person
- Crew on site
- Front & back
- Scope of work
Project spotlight
The yard that came out of it
Two weeks, a four-to-five-person crew, and a yard that had not been touched in years. These photos were taken as the work went in and after it wrapped.
Before & after
The same two spots, two weeks apart
Shot from the same place each time — the foundation beds across the front of the house, and the patio corner in the back yard.
The front beds
Before 
After The back patio
Before 
After The story
A yard that had got away from them
Steve's home in Sandy is an older one, and the landscaping had been left to its own devices long enough that small shrubs had swallowed the beds. His wife told us he had spent years constantly fixing the sprinkler system, which still never covered properly. He started out wanting artificial grass in the front; once he had priced it, he decided he would rather put that money into beds, plants, and trees — so that is what we built.
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The need
An older yard, grown over. Steve’s Sandy home had years of overgrowth on it, and the sprinklers had been patched so often they still did not cover.
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The plan
Plants, not artificial grass. He had us price turf for the front, then decided the money was better spent on wider beds, new plantings, and trees.
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The work
Four to five people, two weeks. Shrubs out, beds enlarged, boulders set, the irrigation rebuilt end to end, and a gas line moved out of the way.
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The result
The scope grew mid-job. Once he saw how the work was going in, he added window wells and more trees and bushes on the spot.
The build
Locate, strip, rebuild
Nothing goes in the ground until we know what is already down there. On this yard that turned up a gas line running straight through where the new beds had to go.
1 Utilities located and flagged before anything moved 
2 The frontage stripped back, mats down to protect the lawn 
3 New window wells set while the excavator was on site
What we did
- Beds reshaped. Pulled out the overgrown shrubs and enlarged the flower beds front and back.
- Everything replanted. New plants and bushes throughout, plus additional trees.
- Boulders placed. Placement boulders set on 4×4-ft footers to anchor the new beds.
- Sprinklers rebuilt. The system redone end to end so it finally covers — park strip included.
- A gas line relocated. A line running through the middle of the planting area moved so the layout could go in.
- Back yard re-landscaped. New bed edges and concrete curbing after the homeowner took out a large tree.
- Window wells replaced. New wells set while the excavator was already on site.
The result: A front and back yard laid out from scratch, planted to a design, and watered by a system that finally reaches all of it.
Services used: landscaping & renovation, irrigation & sprinkler repair, and window well installation.
Beyond the estimate
What a bid can't see yet
The job started smaller than it finished. Some of that was what we found in the ground; the rest was what the homeowner asked for once he had watched a week of the work go in.
A gas line in the way
Straight through the planting area. The service line to the house ran right where the new beds had to go, so we put in a new line and relocated it.
Sprinklers that never covered
Patched for years, still dry. Rather than chase another repair, we redid the system so it waters the whole yard — park strip and all.
Add-ons he asked for
Approved once he saw the work. New window wells and more trees and bushes went in mid-job, and they made a real difference to the finish.
A water feature, rediscovered
He had stopped noticing it. Evergreens and low plantings went in behind and around the sides — something he told us he would never have thought of.
The park strip counted
Not an afterthought. It got the same beds, the same plantings, and the same sprinkler coverage as the rest of the frontage.
Rain, and two big storms
Weather cost us days. The crew worked around it and still had the job essentially knocked out inside a couple of weeks.
The takeaway: Nobody adds to a job they are unhappy with. The scope grew here because the work earned it.
How it landed
A feature he had stopped seeing
He told us he never realised how boring the water feature was until we redid it and landscaped around it.
Evergreens and low plantings behind and around the sides were, in his words, something he would never have thought of. Both he and his wife were delighted with how the whole yard came out.
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Why the scope grew
This homeowner approved every add-on we suggested, on the strength of the work he had already watched go in.
Front to back
We finish the whole yard
Beds, boulders, trees, curbing, irrigation, window wells, and the park strip — one crew, one visit.
Local landscaping and irrigation experts
Because an older bench lot hides more than a new build does.
We know Sandy
Bench lots, mature trees with roots under everything, and older irrigation that was never designed for the planting on top of it.
Irrigation before planting
New plants on a system that does not cover are new plants you replace. We rebuild the watering first, then plant to it.
Locate first, dig second
Utilities get marked before a bucket moves. On this job that is exactly how we found the gas line we had to relocate.
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