Outdoor Living in Crowley, 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 Crowley homeowners in Tarrant County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Crowley
Crowley started as a Santa Fe railroad stop with its first depot in 1885 and kept a small downtown, but the city has grown fast in recent decades with subdivisions filling in south of Fort Worth. It lies west of I-35W on the shallow-soil-over-limestone side, which matters for excavation depth.
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 Crowley 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 Crowley
Crowley’s neighborhoods include Deer Creek, Crescent Springs Ranch, Sendero Oaks and Bent Creek Farms. Most of the city’s homes are in subdivisions built in recent decades as Crowley grew south of Fort Worth.
In Crowley’s newer subdivisions the yard usually starts with a builder’s patio and young trees. West of I-35W the dig can hit limestone, so any rock gets priced at the design visit.
Crowley’s first farms grew up around Deer Creek, south of Fort Worth. Near a creek or river it is worth checking the flood maps early, before a pool or slab is placed.
The City of Crowley, which buys treated surface water from Fort Worth and also has its own wells.
Pioneers began farming near Deer Creek about 1848, and the settlement moved to its present site when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built pens and laid track there; a post office came in 1882 and the first depot in 1885. Crowley had about 275 people through the 1920s and 1930s and 500 at the end of World War II. Residents voted on incorporation on February 3, 1951, and incorporation helped the town obtain a water system, natural gas, and a sewage system in the 1960s. Door-to-door mail delivery began in April 1972, and on September 3, 1972, the council changed Crowley’s designation from town to city.
Growth came in waves: 5,852 people in 1980, 7,467 in 2000, 12,838 in 2010, 18,070 in 2020, and 19,333 in 2021, so most subdivisions date from the last two decades. A park board was formed in 1971 to look after ten acres of donated land, the start of the city’s park system.
Crowley is one of 33 wholesale drinking-water customers of the City of Fort Worth, whose raw water comes from the Tarrant Regional Water District. Fort Worth uses surface water from six sources, and the district supplies raw water to more than 30 wholesale customers in 11 North Texas counties. Fort Worth’s wholesale contracts extend to entities in Tarrant, Johnson, Denton, and Parker counties.
What each outdoor project needs in Crowley, TX
What does a patio cover need in Crowley?
Fort Worth Prairie limestone sits close to the surface, which is good news for a patio cover: footings bear on rock instead of moving clay. The trade is excavation: drilling a footing into limestone takes different equipment than augering clay, and that belongs in the price up front. In Crowley the permit goes through the City of Crowley, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Crowley?
On Fort Worth Prairie ground a pergola’s footings usually reach limestone quickly, which makes for a stable base. Getting there is the work: shallow rock means drilling rather than augering, and it is worth knowing before anyone quotes a post count. More on pergolas.
How is a pool built in Crowley?
Fort Worth Prairie ground is shallow soil over limestone, so a pool excavation here often means rock rather than shrink-swell clay. That is a cost we would rather price honestly at the design visit than discover halfway through the dig, and it is the single biggest variable on this side of the metroplex. In Crowley the permit goes through the City of Crowley, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
How a Backyard Project Runs in Crowley
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A free design visit in Crowley
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 Fort Worth 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 Crowley 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.
Crowley 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 Crowley and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Crowley sits on Fort Worth Prairie 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 Crowley 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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