Outdoor Living in Crandall, 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 Crandall homeowners in Kaufman County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Crandall
Crandall began as an 1880s railroad town on the Texas Trunk line and stayed small until recent years, when large new subdivisions began replacing farmland along US-175. The terrain is flat and open, so most current backyards are new-build lots with little shade.
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 Crandall and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Kaufman County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Homes and Yards in Crandall
The Heartland master-planned community, begun in 2006 on about 2,000 acres, sits nearby and is served by Crandall’s school district.
Newer subdivisions usually come with an HOA review and a small builder’s slab, so it pays to plan the full backyard together and take one complete set of drawings to the HOA.
North Texas Municipal Water District (Crandall is a customer of NTMWD’s regional water system).
The Texas Trunk Line Railway’s decision to lay track through the area in 1880 started the town, and Rev. C. F. Crandall gave the railroad a right-of-way through his land, so the community took his name. A post office opened in 1881, and by 1884 the town had a gristmill, a cotton gin, a church, a school, and fifty residents. By the mid-1920s Crandall had about 750 residents and fifty businesses, including two banks, then slipped to 500 by 1943. It had 1,652 residents in 1990, 2,774 in 2000, 2,858 in 2010, 3,860 in 2020, and 4,278 in 2021, so nearly all of the growth in housing is recent. The town sits at the intersection of U.S. Highway 175 and Farm roads 148 and 3039.
Crandall is in Kaufman County, which was founded in 1848, lies directly east of Dallas County, and now has more than 195,000 residents across 16 cities. The county cites a U.S. Census Bureau finding that it was the fastest-growing county with more than 100,000 people in the nation.
The City of Crandall is one of 34 customer cities and utilities that buy treated water from the North Texas Municipal Water District, alongside 13 member cities. The district draws raw water from Lavon Lake, Bois d’Arc Lake, Jim Chapman Lake, Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, and the East Fork Water Reuse Project, runs seven water treatment plants and more than 695 miles of transmission pipeline, and serves about 2.4 million people with drinking water.
What each outdoor project needs in Crandall, TX
How is a pool built in Crandall?
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 Crandall the permit goes through the City of Crandall, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Crandall?
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 Crandall the permit goes through the City of Crandall, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Crandall?
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 Crandall?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Crandall is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the City of Crandall 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 Crandall
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A free design visit in Crandall
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 the City of Crandall 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 Kaufman County-local if you need us later.
Crandall 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 Crandall and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Crandall sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Kaufman 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 Crandall 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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