Pool Builder in The Colony, TX
Gunite pools built for The Colony ground, designed with the deck, shade and kitchen together. Here is what Eastern Cross Timbers ground, Denton County permitting and the local water supply change about a pool on this side of the metroplex.
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What The Colony ground does to a pool
Eastern Cross Timbers ground is sandier loam over clay, which digs more kindly than the black prairie but drains onto a layer that does not. On a pool that shows up as water travelling under the deck, so the drainage and the backfill detail matter as much as the shell.
The Colony homes, and what they ask of a pool
The Colony was founded in 1973 as a Fox and Jacobs development of single-family homes on about 3,000 acres. Many yards here are established: grown trees, a fence line, an original patio, and sometimes a pool from an earlier decade. Access for a dig is the first question, and what is worth keeping is the second.
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. Open ground near the water catches more wind, which matters more than people expect: it moves heat out of a pool and debris into it, so screening and heating come up early.
Who reviews a pool 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.
City of The Colony, using city wells plus treated surface water bought from Dallas Water Utilities and the City of Plano. A new pool is filled from that supply and topped up through its first summer, so it is worth knowing which restrictions apply before the dig is scheduled.
How a Pool 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 pool 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 pool in order, so the excavation, the shell, the plumbing, the deck and the equipment set are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished pool 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.
Pool Builder 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 ground is sandier loam over clay, which digs more kindly than the black prairie but drains onto a layer that does not. On a pool that shows up as water travelling under the deck, so the drainage and the backfill detail matter as much as the shell.
Many yards here are established: grown trees, a fence line, an original patio, and sometimes a pool from an earlier decade. Access for a dig is the first question, and what is worth keeping is the second. Open ground near the water catches more wind, which matters more than people expect: it moves heat out of a pool and debris into it, so screening and heating come up early.
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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