Outdoor Living in Colleyville, 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 Colleyville homeowners in Tarrant County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Colleyville
Colleyville lots run large and heavily treed. That’s a gift for a shaded outdoor room and a complication for getting equipment to the back. Both get worked out on the design visit, not on the first morning of the build.
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 of Colleyville and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Tarrant County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Homes and Yards in Colleyville
Colleyville is a Fort Worth suburb that has grown steadily since the 1960s. In the early 1980s the city debated limiting new building to expensive single-family homes on large lots.
Bigger lots give a backyard room to breathe. The planning shifts to utility runs, drainage across open ground and, where there is one, keeping well clear of the septic field.
The Colleyville Nature Center protects a riparian woodland of post oak, cottonwood, pecan, and elm along Little Bear Creek. Where an older oak survives on a lot, it is an asset: its root zone is marked before any digging, and its shade goes into the layout.
City of Colleyville, which buys treated surface water from the Trinity River Authority’s Tarrant County Water Project.
The area was first settled in the 1850s, and Colleyville kept growing without a railroad. The earliest reported population was twenty-five in 1936, then 40 in 1945 and 100 in 1958, and the city incorporated on January 10, 1956. By 1964 it had 1,491 residents, then 3,368 in 1970, 6,700 in 1980, 12,724 in 1990, 19,636 in 2000, 22,807 in 2010 and 26,057 in 2020. The Handbook of Texas credits proximity to Fort Worth as the primary reason for the growth, and notes that in the early 1980s residents were divided over the issue of development.
Tarrant County is gently sloping to level, rising from 420 feet in the southeast to 960 feet in the northwest. The Eastern Cross Timbers is made up of deep loamy soil that supports blackjack oak and post oak, while the Grand Prairie has shallow, clayey soil over alternating layers of limestone and marl, and American elm, pecan and box elder line the rivers and creeks. The Trinity River flows from northwest to southeast across the county, and its major lakes are Arlington, Benbrook, Eagle Mountain, Grapevine and Worth.
What each outdoor project needs in Colleyville, TX
What does a patio cover need in Colleyville?
Eastern Cross Timbers loam is easier to dig than clay, but it sits on clay, so a post hole that looks clean at three feet can still be in moving ground at five. Footings are sized for what is under the sand, not what the auger came through first. In Colleyville the permit goes through the City of Colleyville, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Colleyville?
In the Eastern Cross Timbers the sand drains and the clay beneath it does not, so a pergola post can sit in a hole that holds water after a storm. The footing detail and the grade around each post are what keep the base of a wooden post dry. More on pergolas.
How is a pool built in Colleyville?
Eastern Cross Timbers ground is sandier loam over clay, which digs more kindly than the black prairie but drains onto a layer that does not. On a pool that shows up as water travelling under the deck, so the drainage and the backfill detail matter as much as the shell. In Colleyville the permit goes through the City of Colleyville, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Colleyville?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Colleyville is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the City of Colleyville 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.
How a Backyard Project Runs in Colleyville
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A free design visit in Colleyville
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 Eastern Cross Timbers 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 the City of Colleyville and follow it through review, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork. 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 still Tarrant County-local if you need us later.
Colleyville 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 of Colleyville and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Colleyville sits on Eastern Cross Timbers ground in Tarrant 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.
Where an HOA in Colleyville asks for a submittal, we prepare the drawings and details it wants, alongside the city permit, so the approval runs in parallel with the design rather than after it.
Yes. Many homeowners start with one piece, such as a pool or a patio cover, and add the rest later. We plan the whole space up front so the gas, power, water and drainage for later phases are in place from the start.
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HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
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