Hardscaping in The Colony, TX
Patios, walkways, seat walls and steps built on Eastern Cross Timbers ground in The Colony, graded and drained before any stone is set. What this ground does to flatwork, and how we build around it.
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What The Colony ground does to a patio
Eastern Cross Timbers sand over clay is forgiving to excavate and unforgiving about drainage: water moves through the top layer and stops. A paver base here is built to drain sideways, with the grade solved before a single stone is set.
The Colony homes, and what they ask of a patio
The Colony was founded in 1973 as a Fox and Jacobs development of single-family homes on about 3,000 acres. An established yard usually has an original patio that has moved, cracked or simply become too small. Whether to overlay it or take it out is a judgement made on site, not from a photo.
About 23 miles of Lewisville Lake shoreline, including two peninsulas, lie inside the city. Open ground near the water tends to catch more wind, so shade structures are anchored and placed with the breeze in mind. Lakeside ground is often more exposed and sandier at the surface, so the base under pavers is built with that in mind.
Who reviews a patio in The Colony
In The Colony the job is reviewed by the Building Inspections Department, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves.
How a Patio Project Runs in The Colony
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A free design visit in The Colony
A designer comes out to the house, measures the space a patio has to fit, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want it 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 Inspections Department at the City of The Colony 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 patio in order, so the excavation, the base, the drainage and the stone are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished patio with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work — and we are still Denton County-local if you need us later.
Hardscaping in The Colony: common questions
Yes. In The Colony the job is reviewed by the Building Inspections Department, and Longhorn files and follows the permit through that office. Where an HOA also wants a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
Eastern Cross Timbers sand over clay is forgiving to excavate and unforgiving about drainage: water moves through the top layer and stops. A paver base here is built to drain sideways, with the grade solved before a single stone is set.
An established yard usually has an original patio that has moved, cracked or simply become too small. Whether to overlay it or take it out is a judgement made on site, not from a photo. Lakeside ground is often more exposed and sandier at the surface, so the base under pavers is built with that in mind.
After the design visit, the drawings and the The Colony permit come first, and that review is the part that varies. Once it clears, the same crew builds the job straight through rather than handing it between trades. We give you the schedule in writing with the firm price, before anything is ordered.
Yes. The Colony sits in Denton County, inside the Dallas–Fort Worth area Longhorn Outdoor Living has built in since 1984. Design visits in The Colony are free, and we also work in Denton, Flower Mound nearby.
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Free design visits in The Colony
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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