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With the weather warming up, we felt it was necessary to take a minute and talk about the importance of lot cleaning/maintenance. Most of us think that cleaning your lot is just for looks, but there are a lot of other benefits to having a clean and healthy lot. Fire prevention, disease control, and safety are among the advantages of a cleaner lot.FIRE PREVENTION By cleaning up dead and downed

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When your mountain home is done, most companies will have a walk-through with you to help you learn how to operate the items in your home. This is also a time to go through and thoroughly check out the quality of finish, and point out any items they might have missed. We love this part of building a mountain home, not only because it means it is almost done, but this is where we focus most of

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You may have noticed that we haven't put any new updates for a few weeks. That is because we have been watching the statistics to see if anyone was actually reading it. It looks like we have quite a few of you checking this blog out. So now it is up to us to put up some new posts with some real good information. We will try to post about twice a week. Then it is up to you guys reading this

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The Ponderosa is a one of our more popular plans because of its classic chalet style and great layout. However, we began to notice some strong trends towards larger uncovered decks, and private balcony's off Master suites. Also, buyers are starting to place a larger emphasis on architectural elements.Our first response to all of these trends, without getting too drastic was to mix up the

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In case you are wondering why it took 5 days to get SR-14 open, here are some pictures that show what the road crews were dealing with. These were taken near the Zion Overlook.Click the images for a larger view:After seeing that, 5 days doesn't sound so bad does it?

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Did you know that Jacobs Construction has a monthly newsletter?Well we do, and we are very proud of how it has turned out. Each month, we feature a different topic of concern as well as some helpful tips, and recommendations.February's edition had some great tips to keep your Mountain Home working and looking great through winter. Please send us an email if you would like a back issue copy of

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We know all about the burdens of freezing pipes due to power outages and furnace failure. We also know how nice, not to mention valuable, a little peace of mind is. That is why we decided to do something about it.We have done some research and found this wonderful product.It monitors the temperature inside of your home, and when it drops to 45 or lower, it calls whatever phone number you

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We have recently completed construction on our latest cabin. Lot 97 in Elk Ridge Estates Unit 4 was completed in January. It features 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car garage, granite counter tops, hand-scraped hardwood flooring, custom beam trusses, iron railings, fiber cement siding, stamped and colored concrete, and other fine amenities throughout. There is room for an additional 3 bedrooms in

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A lot of you are probably wondering what the weather conditions are like up here.It snowed over the weekend, but SR-14 and HWY-89 are cleared. Within the next couple of days they should be melted off and dry. This storm left about 12 inches of fresh snow. Today would be a great day to get out and put that snowmobile to use since the sun is shining and skies are blue.If you are signed up with

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Here is a little video that demonstrates the importance of hiring a professional when it comes to home improvements that require special skills or tools.

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As you may have noticed, we redesigned our webpage in order to facilitate a better understanding of what should be expected from a contractor when you build your mountain home. One of the things we thought was lacking both from us, and from the Duck Creek area in general was a blog. We are starting this blog to help keep communications open between us at Jacobs Construction and the people who

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