Terms of Service

Description of Services

Creosote Ridge SGU LLC provides professional, scientific, and technical services centered on desert landscape and land stewardship. Our typical scope includes native landscape design, xeriscape conversion and installation, soil and slope stabilization, invasive species management, and the planning of trails and shared open space. In parallel we supply computer systems design and integrated design services where a client project calls for technical modeling, licensed site data organization, or the structured handoff of field records into a client system.

The specific services offered on any given engagement are defined only by the written proposal you accept, never by general marketing copy on this site. A page about xeriscape does not alone form a contract to install one, and a photo of a restored wash is not a promise that your wash will look identical. Every engagement begins with a described scope, a written price where one is quoted, and an accepted signature line.

Eligibility and Authority

You may use this site only if you are at least eighteen years old and legally able to form binding agreements. When you request service for a property owned by another person, an Association, a business, or a public body, you represent that you hold the authority to bind that party to these Terms on its behalf. If you lack that authority, you are personally responsible for any steps you take and for any costs you create.

We may decline to take on a project for any lawful reason, including scheduling conflicts, safety concerns on the ground, or a reasonable judgment that the requested scope falls outside our licenses or skill. No work begins until we accept a proposal and you accept it back in writing, by email confirmation, or by an approved deposit as described below.

Quotes, Estimates and Proposals

A verbal figure, an online note, or an observational mention of likely cost is an estimate only and is not a binding price. Bound pricing appears in a written proposal that lists the scope, the materials, the crew days, and a stated price. A proposal expires on the date written on it unless we extend it by email.

Where a proposal is accepted, the agreed price governs unless we later agree in writing to alter it. If underground conditions or hidden site defects appear during work and require an unplanned method, we will tell you before spending beyond the agreed scope. We will not charge a different, higher price without your prior written approval. Any optional change order is itself a written amendment to the proposal.

Site Data You Provide

Accurate proposals rest on accurate descriptions of your property. By providing survey bounds, soil notes, plant lists, irrigation plans, or photographs, you confirm that the information is honestly stated to the best of your knowledge and that you are allowed to share it. Where a large lot or a steep slope needs precise information we obtain from public maps or a licensed source, we will be clear about the source and about the limits of any map we use.

We do not accept liability for utilities, easements, or buried lines that lie outside information you gave us and outside what standard visible markers reveal. It is your duty before fieldwork begins to identify private point-of-connection lines, underground irrigation runs, and any fee lines you know about, and to mark them clearly or to confirm none exist on the area of work.

Permits and Local Rules

Many desert landscaping activities need a permit from the city or county in which the property sits, such as a building or floodplain clearance for retaining walls, or an irrigation allowance for certain conversions. Where the law requires a permit, we usually prepare and file the application as part of the quoted work, and you are responsible for any permit fees and for the underlying property approval if you are not yet the recorded owner.

We will follow the water restrictions, slope disturbance rules, and protected species rules that apply at the time of work. If a permit, a freeze on watering, or a newly listed species changes the practical scope, we will pause and seek your instruction rather than working outside the rules. Any delay caused by a third party permit process is not a breach by either side, and timescales extend by the length of the delay.

Site Access and Conditions

You will provide our crew reasonable access to the property on the agreed working days, including a place to park trucks and to store tools and plants securely overnight where the scope calls for it. Where access requires a lock, a code, a gate opener, or a neighbor path, you will arrange it before we arrive. If our crew arrives and cannot safely enter, or must turn back for unsafe conditions, you may be charged a reasonable visit fee as stated in the proposal.

Work happens outdoors in a desert climate. Rain, high wind, frozen ground, or extreme heat may force a reschedule to keep people and plants safe. We will give you as much notice as conditions allow and agree a new date. Force majeure events that no party can reasonably prevent extend our performance duties but do not excuse either party from the rest of the agreement.

Payment and Invoicing

Payment terms appear on each written proposal and each invoice. Unless a proposal states otherwise, a start deposit equal to a stated share of the total is due before mobilization, and the balance is due shortly after completion against an invoice that lists the work done. Payment may be made by bank transfer or by another method we approve in writing.

If a client does not pay an invoice by the date due, we may pause further work, place a lien on the affected real property to the extent the law allows for labor and materials, and pursue collection. In that case the client also pays reasonable collection costs and any late fee set out in the proposal, up to the maximum allowed by law. Nothing in this section affects rights a consumer holds under mandatory local law, and consumer clients retain every statutory protection they are granted where they live.

Changes to Scope and Field Work

Sounds simple on paper, and joints and grades rarely match a drawing exactly on the day. We will proceed with reasonable on-site adjustments that do not extend the price or materially shift the design, exercising ordinary professional judgment. Where a field condition requires an additional segment, more material, or a different method than the proposal anticipated, we will contact you first, explain the choice and its cost, and continue only on your approval.

If you request added work during an active project, we record it as a change order so the final invoice is transparent. You are not billed for changes you never approved. Either of us may stop unreviewed changes from piling up by requiring each change to be confirmed in a short written note before our crew spends on it.

Limited Warranty

We warrant that our design and installation work will be performed in a workmanlike manner using materials of the sort described, and that installed plants will be handled with reasonable care. This warranty lasts for a period we state on the proposal, typically one full growing season for plant establishment, and it covers defects in our own execution rather than every outcome in a wild landscape.

The warranty does not cover damage caused by the client, by unusual weather, by a failure to water during an establishment window, by plant disease or animal browsing, by third parties, or by changes made to the work after we finish. Native planting involves living material, so full survival is never guaranteed, and a warranty claim is resolved by reasonable replacement effort rather than by a refund of the entire project. To make a claim, write to us within the warranty window with a description and clear photographs.

Disclaimers of General Liability

To the fullest extent the law permits, we disclaim any warranties that go beyond the limited warranty above, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular non stated purpose. Land behaves for no one person, water runs to gravity, and living plants respond to seasons, so we do not promise that any native slope will drain on a fixed schedule or that no plant will ever fail.

Content on this site and in our public guides is offered as general professional information, not as legal, engineering, or licensed survey advice addressed to your particular property. For a decision of real consequence you should engage a qualified professional who reviews your actual ground.

Ownership of Work Product and Materials

Design drawings, planting plans, and maintenance schedules we prepare are delivered for use on the agreed property. Once you have paid for the work, you hold the right to use those documents for that property as long as you own or manage it. We keep a professional copyright in the drawings and in the underlying methods so that our design language is not wholesale copied onto other clients without engagement.

Field records, plant receipts, and as built notes created during your project belong to you as the owner of record. Photographs we take on site may be kept for our own professional file and, with your written approval, for portfolio examples that omit identifying property addresses unless you allow them.

Confidential Information

In delivering service we may see private details about your property, your finances, your irrigation, or your organization. Both parties agree to keep such confidential details private and to use them only for the engagement. This duty survives the end of the project and does not apply to information that is public, that is independently developed, that a law or a court requires us to release, or that you agree in writing may be shared.

Where a public record such as a recorded easement or an approved permit is by law open for anyone to inspect, we are not deemed to break confidentiality by noting that the record exists. On your reasonable request we will take care to keep our own notes about your job inside a closed project file.

Acceptable Use of the Website

You agree not to use creosoteridge.buzz in a way that harms it or others. In particular you will not attempt to break into restricted parts of the site, overload the servers, collect contact details by automated scanning to send bulk mail, post unlawful content into any comment field, impersonate another person, or introduce malicious code. We cooperate with providers and with the authorities to keep the site sound for everyone who reads the ridge guides.

We may remove any content you post that we consider unlawful, misleading, or off the purpose of the page, without notice. You remain responsible for the content you submit and you release us from claims arising from what a third party submits on your behalf.

Intellectual Property

The name Creosote Ridge, the CreosoteRidge mark, the site layout, the written articles, the palette, and the drawn scene on the home page are our property or that of our licensors and are protected by the rights that apply to them. You may view and share a page for personal, non commercial use with a link back, but you may not copy the site wholesale, resell the content, or use our marks to suggest an affiliation you do not hold.

We ask that you not scrape this low-key site for use in another project without a short note first. Permission, where granted, is revocable and is never for commercial resale of the material itself.

Third Party Content and Links

This site may point to public agencies, native plant nurseries, rainfall portals, or soil libraries that help a property owner plan. These links are conveniences only. A link does not mean we have reviewed or endorse every page behind it, and we are not liable for the content or conduct of those external services. When you leave creosoteridge.buzz, whichever separate terms that site publishes begin to govern your visit.

Any names of products or services that are mentioned but not ours belong to their respective owners, and their mention is for useful description rather than for endorsement of an unaffiliated commercial offering.

Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah and the federal law of the United States, without regard to choice of law rules. For any dispute arising out of the site or an engagement, we prefer to talk first: contact us at inquiry@creosoteridge.buzz and we will give a real person a fair chance to resolve the matter by conversation and written settlement.

If a dispute cannot be settled promptly by conversation, and it is not a small claim, the parties agree to attempt an informal mediation before litigation, with the costs of the mediation shared unless the mediator directs otherwise. Any legal claim must be brought in the state or federal courts serving Washington County, Utah, and you consent to the venue of those courts. A claim arising from this site or from a completed project must be commenced within the shorter of the period the law allows or two years after the event that gives rise to it, except where a longer mandatory period applies by law.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Creosote Ridge SGU LLC and its related founders, members, and employees are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, arising out of the site or out of a project, whether the claim sounds in contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise. This includes claims about a plant that fails, a slope shifting after a rare storm, or an estimate proving too low under changed conditions.

Our total liability for all claims arising out of one contract or one site visit is capped at the amount you actually paid us for the engagement that gave rise to the claim, or at one hundred United States dollars if the claim arises from site use alone with no paid engagement. Nothing in this paragraph limits liability that the law does not permit a party to waive, including liability for gross negligence or intentional harm where such liability cannot be excluded.

Severability and Waiver

If any term of these Terms is found unlawful or unenforceable, that term is treated as severed and the remaining terms continue in full force. The fact that we do not promptly exercise a right does not waive that right. A waiver is effective only if it is in writing and signed by the party granting it.

No term of these Terms creates a partnership, an agency, or an employment relationship between us. Nothing here grants a right to any person who is not a party to give performance or to claim a benefit under this agreement.

Entire Agreement and Contact

These Terms, together with any written proposal you accept and any written change order, form the entire agreement between you and Creosote Ridge SGU LLC about the subject matter. They replace any earlier conversations, drafts, or email summaries. If there is a conflict between these Terms and a proposal your signature accepted, the proposal controls for the specifics of that project.

To ask a question, request a copy of these Terms, or raise a concern, please reach us by email at inquiry@creosoteridge.buzz or by telephone at +18065242066. Written notices may be sent by postal mail to the office below. We will treat correspondence about these Terms as a request for service of a working relationship.

Creosote Ridge SGU LLC
1681 E 50 North Cir, St George - 84790-8397, United States (US)

Thank you for reading the full terms before you begin. As on the ridge, a fair start makes for a steady finish.

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