Pergolas & Doors in Dallas, TX
Complete backyards for Dallas homeowners in Dallas County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Dallas
What should Dallas homeowners know before building a backyard?
From the older lots around Lakewood and Preston Hollow to the newer builds further north, Dallas yards usually come with mature trees and tight side access, and both of those decide how a pool gets dug and where the equipment ends up living.
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 Dallas the job is reviewed by the Development Services: Building Inspection, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Dallas publishes a combined fence and swimming-pool barrier checklist for residential projects, and permits are filed through the city’s online portal. Our permit guide lists the office for every city we have checked.
Longhorn has built across Dallas County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
The backyard in Dallas
What we build in Dallas, TX
Also in Dallas: pergolas, plus windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Dallas
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A free design visit in Dallas
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 Development Services: Building Inspection at the City of Dallas 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 Dallas County-local if you need us later.
Local know-how
Homes and Yards in Dallas
Dallas is a large, older city of established neighborhoods, including Lakewood in East Dallas and the historic houses of Swiss Avenue and Munger Place.
Next to an older house with real character, materials and rooflines are chosen to suit the house. It is also worth confirming whether the lot sits in a local historic district before designing anything visible from the street.
The Trinity River runs through the city, bordered by the 6,000-acre Great Trinity Forest, with White Rock Lake and a limestone escarpment through Oak Cliff. Where the ground slopes or rock sits close to the surface, retaining walls or rock excavation get priced at the design visit rather than discovered during the dig.
- County
- Dallas County
- Ground
- Blackland Prairie
- Water
- Dallas Water Utilities
- Permits
- Development Services: Building Inspection
Building in Dallas
Dallas backyard questions
The Development Services: Building Inspection reviews residential projects in Dallas. 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. Dallas publishes a combined fence and swimming-pool barrier checklist for residential projects, and permits are filed through the city’s online portal.
Dallas sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Dallas 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.
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Free design visit
Free design visits in Dallas
Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number. No obligation, no pressure.
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