Patio Enclosures & Pergolas in Grand Prairie, TX
Complete backyards for Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie
What should Grand Prairie homeowners know before building a backyard?
Grand Prairie is unusually long north-to-south, running from the Great Southwest Industrial District and Mountain Creek Lake down past Joe Pool Lake, so lot character shifts from 1950s-60s industrial-era housing in the north to post-1990s subdivisions near the lake in the south. The city also contains large federal and airport land, including Grand Prairie Municipal Airport and the former Naval Air Station area at Hensley Field.
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 Grand Prairie and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
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 Grand Prairie
What we build in Grand Prairie, TX
Also in Grand Prairie: pergolas, plus windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Grand Prairie
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A free design visit in Grand Prairie
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 Grand Prairie 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 Dallas County-local if you need us later.
Local know-how
Homes and Yards in Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie grew from a small town into a city during the World War II aircraft-plant boom, which caused a severe housing shortage, and kept growing in later decades.
Older neighborhoods tend to mean mature trees and tighter access, which decides how a pool gets dug, where the equipment sits and how materials reach the back of the house.
Joe Pool Lake reaches into south Grand Prairie, Mountain Creek Lake is on the east, and the West Fork of the Trinity River plus several creeks cross the city. Open ground near the water tends to catch more wind, so shade structures are anchored and placed with the breeze in mind.
- County
- Dallas County
- Ground
- Blackland Prairie
- Water
- Dallas Water Utilities
Building in Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie backyard 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 Grand Prairie and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie
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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