Your favorite room, out back in Allen
Complete backyards for Allen homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Collin County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Allen
What should Allen homeowners know before building a backyard?
Allen yards are typically newer suburban lots where the builder already set the drainage fall. New hardscape has to work with that fall rather than against it, or you move water toward the house.
This is Blackland Prairie ground — deep, dark clay that swells in a wet spring and shrinks hard by August. It is the reason we engineer the pool shell for movement and set control joints in the flatwork on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends.
We file the permit with the City of Allen and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork. Allen’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District.
Longhorn has built across Collin 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 Allen
What we build in Allen, TX
Also in Allen: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Allen
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A free design visit in Allen
A designer comes out to the house, measures, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want the space to do. You leave with a firm price. On Blackland Prairie 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 the City of Allen and follow it through review, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork. 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 job in order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished backyard with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work — and we are still Collin County-local if you need us later.
Building in Allen
Allen backyard 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 of Allen and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Allen’s water comes from the North Texas Municipal Water District. 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.
Nearby
Other cities we build in near Allen
Free design visit
Free design visits in Allen
Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number — no obligation, no pressure.
Call (214) 251-4928