Your favorite room, out back in Mansfield
Complete backyards for Mansfield homeowners, on Eastern Cross Timbers ground in Tarrant County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Mansfield
What should Mansfield homeowners know before building a backyard?
Mansfield lots are newer and often have some fall to them, which is usually an opportunity rather than a problem — a raised spa or a stepped deck instead of one flat slab.
This is Cross Timbers ground — sandier loam sitting on clay. It digs more kindly than the black prairie further east, but the sand drains onto clay that does not, so grading and drainage get solved before a single stone is set.
In Mansfield the job is reviewed by the Building Safety Department, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Mansfield takes all permit applications, plans and payments online, with single-trade permits such as electrical and plumbing filed through its MyGov portal.
Longhorn has built across Tarrant County and the wider Metroplex since 1984. We prepare the drawings an HOA typically asks for, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
The backyard in Mansfield
What we build in Mansfield, TX
Also in Mansfield: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
Mansfield treats its own water from Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs, and irrigation is prohibited between 10am and 6pm year-round. We plan the planting and the irrigation around those rules rather than against them — a new landscape that cannot be watered through its first summer does not survive it.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Mansfield
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A free design visit in Mansfield
A designer comes out to the house, measures, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want the space to do. You leave with a firm price. On Eastern Cross Timbers 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 Building Safety Department at the City of Mansfield 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 job 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 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.
Building in Mansfield
Mansfield backyard questions
The Building Safety Department reviews residential projects in Mansfield. 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. Mansfield takes all permit applications, plans and payments online, with single-trade permits such as electrical and plumbing filed through its MyGov portal.
Mansfield treats its own water from Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs, and irrigation is prohibited between 10am and 6pm year-round. Watering schedules can tighten in a drought, so we plan the planting and irrigation around the current rules and choose heat-tolerant plants that can establish on them.
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Free design visit
Free design visits in Mansfield
Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number — no obligation, no pressure.
Call (214) 251-4928