Pools & Spas in Kaufman
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Kaufman, 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 Kaufman homeowners in Kaufman County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Kaufman
Kaufman is the county seat of Kaufman County, at State highways 34 and 243 and U.S. Highway 175, thirty-four miles east of Dallas near the center of the county. Its first settlers built a fort on a hilltop beside what became King’s Creek.
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 or county office that covers Kaufman 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.
Outdoor living we build in Kaufman, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Kaufman
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Kaufman
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Kaufman
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Kaufman
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Kaufman
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Kaufman
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Kaufman
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Kaufman homes
Homes and Yards in Kaufman
Forty families led by Dr. William P. King arrived in 1840 and built Kings Fort, and the community became known as Kingsboro. It later became the county seat and took the county’s name, and the Texas Trunk line reached the town in 1881.
Around an older county seat, outdoor additions look best when the materials echo the house, such as brick columns, painted trim and a roof pitch that matches the main home.
Kaufman County is level to gently undulating Blackland Prairie, with elevations from 300 to 550 feet. The soils are slightly acidic, with dark to light loamy surfaces and clayey subsoils, and rainfall averages thirty-nine inches.
Water comes from the City of Kaufman, which treats surface water.
With the Texas Central Railroad, which connected Kaufman with Dallas, the rail lines made the town the shipping point for county farmers. In 1884 Kaufman had an estimated 1,000 residents, four churches, two schools, an opera house, and forty businesses. By 1900 it had three newspapers, sixty businesses, and an estimated 2,300 people.
A uniform factory, the town’s first manufacturing plant, was among eighty businesses in 1945. A tornado did major damage to the business area in 1963. In 1990 Kaufman had 5,238 residents and a dozen manufacturing plants that made steel products, furniture, and clothing. By 2000 the population was 6,490, with 416 businesses.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 62 hail reports in Kaufman County from 2016 to 2025, 56 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 3.5 inches. 9 of those reports were logged at Kaufman itself, the largest 1.5 inches. The same records show 46 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 81 mph, and 4 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Kaufman, TX
How is a pool built in Kaufman?
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 Kaufman the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Kaufman, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Kaufman?
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 Kaufman the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Kaufman, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Kaufman?
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 Kaufman?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Kaufman is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Kaufman 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.
Kaufman 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 or county office that covers Kaufman and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Kaufman 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.
Other cities we build in near Kaufman
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Hardscaping
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Patio Covers
Outdoor Kitchen Countertop Materials in Frisco, TX
Granite, porcelain, quartzite and quartz all behave differently in Frisco sun, freezes and clay. Here is a pick by exposure, a sealing test, and what the base under the stone needs.
Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
The HOA and the city are two separate approvals, and the HOA usually comes first. Here is the packet a DFW committee wants, how long it takes, why it says no, and how to answer a denial.
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