Patio Covers & Pools in Abilene, TX
Complete backyards for Abilene homeowners in Taylor County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Abilene
What should Abilene homeowners know before building a backyard?
Abilene sits west of the Metroplex on clay that swells and shrinks with the weather, the same up-and-down movement local foundation crews talk about, so a pool, deck or cover here starts with the soil and the drainage.
That ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built here. Here is what it does to a patio.
In Abilene the job is reviewed by the City of Abilene Building Inspections, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Abilene has its own residential in-ground pool permit application, handled by Building Inspections, which also schedules the inspections. Our permit guide lists the office for every city we have checked.
Longhorn has been building since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
The backyard in Abilene
What we build in Abilene, TX
Also in Abilene: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
Abilene’s water comes from the City of Abilene, which draws on Lake Fort Phantom Hill, Hubbard Creek Lake and Lake O.H. Ivie. We plan the planting and the irrigation around those rules rather than against them. A new landscape that cannot be watered through its first summer does not survive it.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Abilene
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A free design visit in Abilene
A designer comes out to the house, measures the space a backyard project has to fit, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want it to do. You leave with a firm price. On Rolling Plains clay ground, that is also when the grading, drainage and movement details get decided rather than improvised on site.
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Drawings, permit and HOA
We file the permit with City of Abilene Building Inspections at the City of Abilene and follow it through review. Where an HOA wants a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
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One crew, one schedule
The same team builds the whole backyard project in order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished backyard project with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work, and we are a phone call away if you need us later.
Local know-how
Homes and Yards in Abilene
Abilene began in 1881 as a cattle-shipping stop on the Texas and Pacific Railway, took the county seat from Buffalo Gap, and grew around its three universities and what is now Dyess Air Force Base.
Across a city that old, lots range from established neighborhoods with mature trees to newer builds on open ground, and the plan is shaped around whichever one the yard is.
Abilene’s clay swells and shrinks as it wets and dries, the cause local foundation crews give for settling slabs. Pools, decks and covers are engineered for that movement, and drainage is planned so water is carried away from the house and the new work.
- County
- Taylor County
- Ground
- Rolling Plains clay
- Water
- City of Abilene
- Permits
- City of Abilene Building Inspections
Building in Abilene
Abilene backyard questions
The City of Abilene Building Inspections reviews residential projects in Abilene. Pools and structures attached to the house, such as patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures, almost always need a permit. Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. Abilene has its own residential in-ground pool permit application, handled by Building Inspections, which also schedules the inspections.
Abilene sits on Rolling Plains clay ground in Taylor County. The ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built, so we plan the drainage and the footings for it at the first visit rather than after something moves.
Abilene’s water comes from the City of Abilene, which draws on Lake Fort Phantom Hill, Hubbard Creek Lake and Lake O.H. Ivie. Watering schedules can tighten in a drought, so we plan the planting and irrigation around the current rules and choose heat-tolerant plants that can establish on them.
Free design visit
Free design visits in Abilene
Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number. No obligation, no pressure.
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