The accumulation number in your contract is the whole ballgame. Most people never read it until they're arguing about it.
Trigger depth is the snow accumulation written into a contract that obligates a crew to come clear your property. It's usually a number of inches — two, three, four — and it's the single detail that determines how much service you actually get for your seasonal price, far more than anything in the marketing copy.
A two-inch trigger means a crew comes out far more often over a winter than a four-inch trigger does, because Utah storms frequently drop an inch or two without reaching a higher threshold. More visits means more cost built into the contract price, which is exactly why two contracts at different prices might be offering very different actual service.
If your contract triggers at four inches and a string of two-inch storms hits over a week, you can end up shoveling yourself out several times while technically never triggering a contracted visit. That's not a broken contract — it's the contract working exactly as written, which is why understanding the number before signing matters more than reading it afterward.
What's the trigger depth, in writing. Does it reset after each cleared storm or accumulate across a multi-day system. Is there a different trigger for walkways versus the driveway. Get the answer in the contract, not a verbal assurance.
If you're on a bench that catches more lake-effect and canyon snow, a lower trigger depth is usually worth the extra cost, because you're more likely to hit multiple smaller-storm accumulations across a season than a valley-floor address might.
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