Outdoor Living in Haslet, 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 Haslet homeowners in Tarrant County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Haslet
Haslet began as an 1880s Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway stop and stayed a village of a few hundred until the AllianceTexas logistics corridor developed around it, so the city today is a mix of long-held multi-acre tracts and recent subdivisions. A small part of the city extends into Denton County, and heavy freight and rail infrastructure borders it on the east.
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 Haslet 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 Haslet
Haslet is a small commuter town for Fort Worth. It mixes long-held multi-acre tracts with recent subdivisions.
On acreage, the utility runs and any septic field shape the plan. On a new subdivision lot it starts with a builder’s slab and young trees.
City of Haslet, using city wells plus treated surface water bought from the City of Fort Worth.
Haslet formed as a community around 1883 when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through the area, and it took its name from the Michigan hometown of the railroad’s contractor. A post office opened in 1887. The town held about 50 to 175 people for most of the next century; it had incorporated by the mid-1960s with 250 residents and seven businesses. By 1990 it was a commuter community for Fort Worth with 795 residents, and the census count rose to 1,134 in 2000, 1,517 in 2010 and 1,952 in 2020, with 2,371 counted in 2021.
The city sits on Farm Road 156 about sixteen miles northwest of Fort Worth, in the far north of Tarrant County. Big Fossil Creek, which rises northwest of Saginaw and runs nineteen miles southeast to the West Fork of the Trinity, is dammed five miles south of Haslet; its basin is flat to rolling ground of clay and sandy loams.
Haslet is one of the City of Fort Worth’s wholesale drinking water customers, alongside Keller, Haltom City, Hurst, Kennedale and Northlake.
What each outdoor project needs in Haslet, TX
What does a patio cover need in Haslet?
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 Haslet the permit goes through the City of Haslet, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Haslet?
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 Haslet?
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 Haslet the permit goes through the City of Haslet, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
How a Backyard Project Runs in Haslet
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A free design visit in Haslet
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 Haslet 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.
Haslet 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 Haslet and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Haslet 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 Haslet 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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