Fire Prevention

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 trees, removing low lying branches, and spreading the chips from those materials, you can greatly reduce the fuel needed for a forest fire to make it to your home. It also would help keep a structure fire on your property from spreading to neighboring areas and causing damage that you could be help liable for.
DISEASE CONTROL
Cutting down trees that are too close together or diseased will help the other healthier trees flourish and grow the way they are supposed to. While you may be giving up a few trees to achieve this, the end result is a much more green and lush landscape.
SAFETY
Kids, the elderly, and even pets can have trouble navigating through an overgrown lot with logs and stumps everywhere. That could lead to injuries that would ruin an otherwise relaxing get-away. Removing certain materials, and chipping them could lend itself to trails, sitting areas, and other more useful areas on your property.

Check out our Fire Mitigation division on our website for more information about what we can do to help you achieve the beautiful lot you have always wanted. At the bottom of our page, there are some useful links to other sites dedicated to fire prevention and management.

Walk-through: what to expect.

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 our customer service energy. Our feeling is that if you are not happy with anything in your home, it is our job to fix it, change it, replace it, or whatever else it might take to make you happy.

Here is a list of things from the National Association of Home Builders of things to look for, and correct if there are problems.

Update

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 to leave some comments, and ask some questions. That will help us know what you want to read about. Thanks, and check back this afternoon for a new post.

Featured Plan: Ponderosa Re-mix

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 Ponderosa a little bit with those ideas in mind. Here are the results:


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Click here to view the original Ponderosa and see the differences.

Snow Pictures from last week

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.

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After seeing that, 5 days doesn't sound so bad does it?

Newsletter

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 it

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Protect your Vacation Home from freezing pipes

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 program into it, and plays a recorded message. All that is required is a working phone line.

Let us install and program one for you for $150.