Pools & Spas in Scurry
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Scurry, 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 Scurry homeowners in Kaufman County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Scurry
Scurry is on State Highway 34 four miles southwest of Kaufman in southwestern Kaufman County. The western half of Kaufman County is drained by the East Fork of the Trinity River and its tributaries.
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 Scurry 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 Scurry, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Scurry
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Scurry
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Scurry
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Scurry
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Scurry
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Scurry
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Scurry
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Scurry homes
Homes and Yards in Scurry
Settlers arrived in the mid-1840s, and a church and school community grew around a grist and cotton mill. The Texas and Pacific Railway made it a shipping point in the 1870s, and the name honors Scurry Dean, killed in the Civil War.
In a small railroad town, a pergola with a partial roof or adjustable louvers gives a choice between sun and shade from season to season.
Kaufman County’s climate is subtropical-humid, with July temperatures from an average low of 72° F to an average high of 97°. Prairie grasses grow there, and the growing season averages 245 days each year.
Water comes from Gastonia Scurry SUD, a special utility district, which treats surface water.
Postal service began in 1883. Scurry had an estimated fifty residents in 1884 and 400 in 1914, served by three churches, a school, and a dozen businesses, including a bank, a weekly newspaper, and a movie theater. The town declined during the Great Depression and after World War II, dropping to 250 by the mid-1950s. It reported 315 residents and nine businesses in 1988 and 1990, and the same population in 2000.
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. 1 of those reports was logged at Scurry itself. 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 Scurry, TX
How is a pool built in Scurry?
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 Scurry the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Scurry, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Scurry?
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 Scurry the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Scurry, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Scurry?
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 Scurry?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Scurry is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Scurry 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.
Scurry 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 Scurry and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Scurry 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 Scurry
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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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