Pools & Spas in Commerce
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Commerce, 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 Commerce homeowners in Hunt County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Commerce
Commerce is at the juncture of State highways 50, 11, 24 and 224, fifteen miles from Greenville in northeastern Hunt County. The town grew around a store opened in 1872 to serve a trade route created by a new bridge over the South Sulphur River.
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 Commerce the job is reviewed by the Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits), and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Our permit guide lists the office for every city we have checked.
Longhorn has built across Hunt 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 Commerce, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Commerce
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Commerce
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Commerce
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Commerce
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Commerce
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Commerce
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Commerce
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Commerce homes
Homes and Yards in Commerce
Merchant William Jernigin opened that store, and the town apparently got its name when he had goods shipped to 'commerce' because the place had no name. It incorporated in 1885, and the Cotton Belt arrived in 1887.
In a college town, a patio cover or sunroom should follow the style of the house itself, whether that means a classic gable or a low, modern flat roof.
Northeastern Hunt County is drained by the Sulphur River. The county’s uplands have loamy or clayey and loamy soils, rainfall averages forty-three inches a year, and the growing season varies from 218 to 247 days.
Water comes from the City of Commerce, which treats surface water.
Commerce has been a college town since 1894, when William L. Mayo moved East Texas Normal College there from Cooper. The college joined the state system in 1917 and became a university in 1965, and it replaced cotton and the railroads as the base of the economy. The last cotton gin shut down in 1978.
The Commerce Industrial Development Association, formed in 1956, worked to attract manufacturers, including United States Brass and Montgomery Controls, Sherwood Medical, Manatee Homes and American Wood. The population was 7,669 in 2000, and Commerce is the second largest town in Hunt County.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 73 hail reports in Hunt County from 2016 to 2025, 59 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 2.5 inches. 4 of those reports were logged at Commerce itself, the largest 1 inches. The same records show 32 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 2 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 Commerce, TX
How is a pool built in Commerce?
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 Commerce the permit goes through the Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits), and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Commerce?
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 Commerce the permit goes through the Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits), and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Commerce?
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 Commerce?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Commerce is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits) 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 Commerce
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A free design visit in Commerce
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 Blackland Prairie 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 Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits) at the City of Commerce 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 still Hunt County-local if you need us later.
Commerce outdoor living questions
The Community Development - City Planning Division (Planning & Permits) reviews residential projects in Commerce. 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.
Commerce sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Hunt 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 Commerce 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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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 Commerce
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