Your favorite room, out back in Plano
Complete backyards for Plano homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Collin County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Plano
What should Plano homeowners know before building a backyard?
Plano lots are mostly flat, fenced and already fully landscaped, so the work is nearly always a retrofit — getting a dig and a crew past an established yard without wrecking the parts you want to keep.
This is Blackland Prairie ground — deep, dark clay that swells in a wet spring and shrinks hard by August. It is the reason we engineer the pool shell for movement and set control joints in the flatwork on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends.
In Plano the job is reviewed by the Building Inspections Department, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Plano requires a separate permit for the fence around a pool, meeting International Swimming Pool and Spa Code barrier rules, and pool plans have to carry the electric company’s approval stamp before plan review.
The backyard in Plano
What we build in Plano, TX
Also in Plano: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
Plano’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District, delivered through the city’s utility. 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 Plano
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A free design visit in Plano
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 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 Building Inspections Department at the City of Plano 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 Collin County-local if you need us later.
Building in Plano
Plano backyard questions
The Building Inspections Department reviews residential projects in Plano. 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. Plano requires a separate permit for the fence around a pool, meeting International Swimming Pool and Spa Code barrier rules, and pool plans have to carry the electric company’s approval stamp before plan review.
Plano’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District, delivered through the city’s utility. 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.
Nearby
Other cities we build in near Plano
Free design visit
Free design visits in Plano
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