Patio Covers in The Colony, TX
Covered patios built onto The Colony homes, engineered for Eastern Cross Timbers ground and tied into the existing roofline rather than bolted onto it. What the ground, the houses and the city’s review change about a cover here.
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What The Colony ground does to a patio cover
Eastern Cross Timbers loam is easier to dig than clay, but it sits on clay, so a post hole that looks clean at three feet can still be in moving ground at five. Footings are sized for what is under the sand, not what the auger came through first.
The Colony homes, and what they ask of a patio cover
The Colony was founded in 1973 as a Fox and Jacobs development of single-family homes on about 3,000 acres. Houses from these decades often have a patio that is too small and a roofline that was never designed to carry a cover. Tying the new roof in properly, rather than hanging it off the fascia, is most of the work.
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 lots are more exposed, so a cover’s uplift resistance and its fixings are engineered for wind rather than assumed.
Who reviews a patio cover 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 Cover 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 cover 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 cover in order, so the footings, the structure, the roof and the electrical are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished patio cover 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.
Patio Covers 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 loam is easier to dig than clay, but it sits on clay, so a post hole that looks clean at three feet can still be in moving ground at five. Footings are sized for what is under the sand, not what the auger came through first.
Houses from these decades often have a patio that is too small and a roofline that was never designed to carry a cover. Tying the new roof in properly, rather than hanging it off the fascia, is most of the work. Lakeside lots are more exposed, so a cover’s uplift resistance and its fixings are engineered for wind rather than assumed.
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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