Your favorite room, out back in Red Oak
Complete backyards for Red Oak homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Ellis County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Red Oak
What should Red Oak homeowners know before building a backyard?
Red Oak sits on I-35E just south of the Dallas County line and grew from a farming community into a commuter suburb, so subdivisions from the 1990s onward sit on former row-crop blackland with very little mature canopy. Lots slope gently toward Red Oak Creek and its tributaries, which cross the city from west to east.
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.
We file the permit with the City of Red Oak and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Ellis 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 Red Oak
What we build in Red Oak, TX
Also in Red Oak: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Red Oak
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A free design visit in Red Oak
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 the City of Red Oak 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 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 Ellis County-local if you need us later.
Building in Red Oak
Red Oak 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 Red Oak and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Nearby
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Free design visit
Free design visits in Red Oak
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