Family-owned in Texas since 1984Serving homeowners across Dallas–Fort Worth

Your favorite room, out back in Rockwall

Complete backyards for Rockwall homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Rockwall County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.

  • 40+Years in Business
  • 15,000+Projects Completed
  • 1984Family-Owned Since
  • 90DFW Cities Served
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Building in Rockwall

What should Rockwall homeowners know before building a backyard?

Rockwall County · Blackland Prairie soil

Rockwall’s draw is the water, and much of the work here is about not competing with it — keeping the sightline to Ray Hubbard open while still getting real shade over the kitchen.

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 Rockwall and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork. Rockwall’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District.

Longhorn has built across Rockwall 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.

How it runs

How a Backyard Project Runs in Rockwall

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    A free design visit in Rockwall

    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.

  2. 2

    Drawings, permit and HOA

    We file the permit with the City of Rockwall 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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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 Rockwall County-local if you need us later.

Building in Rockwall

Rockwall 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 Rockwall and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.

Rockwall’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District. 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.

Free design visit

Free design visits in Rockwall

Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number — no obligation, no pressure.

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