Pools & Spas in Blue Ridge
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Blue Ridge, TX
Outdoor living is the covered patio, pool, kitchen, stone and lighting that make a backyard part of the home. Longhorn designs and builds them together for Blue Ridge homeowners in Collin County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge is at the intersection of State Highway 78 and Farm Road 981 in northeastern Collin County. It lies in the heart of the Blackland Prairie near Pilot Grove Creek, where it served as a retail market for farmers in the 1970s.
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.
We file the permit with the city or county office that covers Blue Ridge and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Collin County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Blue Ridge, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Blue Ridge
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Blue Ridge
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Blue Ridge
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Blue Ridge
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Blue Ridge
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Blue Ridge
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Blue Ridge
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Blue Ridge homes
Homes and Yards in Blue Ridge
The town was established in 1876 on land first granted to Matthiss Mowry for service in the Texas Revolution. It was named for its hilltop location and a blue-flowering grass that looks like a blue haze from a distance.
On a hilltop lot, a raised patio or covered deck can make the most of the height for views, with posts anchored firmly against wind.
Collin County’s surface is generally level to gently rolling, from 450 to 700 feet above sea level. Rainfall averages just under thirty-five inches a year, and the growing season extends for 237 days.
Water comes from the City of Blue Ridge, which draws on groundwater.
A tornado struck Blue Ridge on October 8, 1919, killing seven people and destroying over $100,000 worth of property. By 1930 the town’s 450 residents had electric and natural gas utilities, a telephone exchange, paved roads, a high school and more than twenty businesses. Blue Ridge incorporated in 1936.
In 1915 the Greenville and Whitewright Northern Traction Company built a line from Blue Ridge to Anna, which was abandoned five years later. In 1960 Blue Ridge had 350 residents served by sixteen businesses. The population was 521 in 1990, and in 2000 it was 672, with forty-eight businesses.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 310 hail reports in Collin County from 2016 to 2025, 265 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 5.25 inches. 3 of those reports were logged at Blue Ridge itself, the largest 2 inches. The same records show 108 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 9 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Blue Ridge, TX
How is a pool built in Blue Ridge?
Blackland Prairie clay swells through a wet spring and shrinks hard by August, and a pool shell is a rigid object sitting in ground that moves around it. Here that means the shell, the beam and the deck are engineered for that movement from the drawing stage, and the flatwork gets its control joints placed on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends. In Blue Ridge the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Blue Ridge, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Blue Ridge?
Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops with the season, so a patio cover’s footings are the whole job. Posts set in shallow pads move with the top of the soil and take the roofline with them; footings taken below the active zone, tied to a slab that drains away from the house, do not. In Blue Ridge the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Blue Ridge, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Blue Ridge?
On Blackland Prairie clay a pergola’s posts are what decide whether it still stands square in five years. The clay moves most in the top few feet, so footings go deeper than the movement rather than resting in it, and the slab underneath gets its own drainage plan. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Blue Ridge?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Blue Ridge is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Blue Ridge and sits on footings designed for the ground under it. We match the roofline and the exterior to the house so it reads as part of it. More on sunrooms and patio enclosures.
Blue Ridge outdoor living questions
Almost always, for pools and for anything attached to the house, including patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures. Longhorn files the permit with the city or county office that covers Blue Ridge and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Blue Ridge sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Collin 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.
Other cities we build in near Blue Ridge
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Hardscaping
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Patio Covers
Outdoor Kitchen Countertop Materials in Frisco, TX
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Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
The HOA and the city are two separate approvals, and the HOA usually comes first. Here is the packet a DFW committee wants, how long it takes, why it says no, and how to answer a denial.
Free design visits in Blue Ridge
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