Your favorite room, out back in Mansfield
Complete backyards for Mansfield homeowners, on Eastern Cross Timbers ground in Tarrant County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Mansfield
What should Mansfield homeowners know before building a backyard?
Mansfield lots are newer and often have some fall to them, which is usually an opportunity rather than a problem — a raised spa or a stepped deck instead of one flat slab.
This is Cross Timbers ground — sandier loam sitting on clay. It digs more kindly than the black prairie further east, but the sand drains onto clay that does not, so grading and drainage get solved before a single stone is set.
In Mansfield the job is reviewed by the Building Safety Department, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Mansfield takes all permit applications, plans and payments online, with single-trade permits such as electrical and plumbing filed through its MyGov portal.
Longhorn has built across Tarrant 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 Mansfield
What we build in Mansfield, TX
Also in Mansfield: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
Mansfield treats its own water from Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs, and irrigation is prohibited between 10am and 6pm year-round. We plan the planting and the irrigation around those rules rather than against them — a new landscape that cannot be watered through its first summer does not survive it.
Building in Mansfield
Mansfield backyard questions
The Building Safety Department reviews residential projects in Mansfield. Pools and structures attached to the house, such as patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures, almost always need a permit. Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. Mansfield takes all permit applications, plans and payments online, with single-trade permits such as electrical and plumbing filed through its MyGov portal.
Mansfield treats its own water from Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs, and irrigation is prohibited between 10am and 6pm year-round. 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.
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Free design visits in Mansfield
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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