Your favorite room, out back in Grapevine
Complete backyards for Grapevine 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 Grapevine
What should Grapevine homeowners know before building a backyard?
Between the lake and the older streets near Main, Grapevine lots vary more than people expect. Mature trees and whatever decking is already there usually decide the layout.
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 Grapevine the job is reviewed by the Building Inspection Department, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Grapevine’s pool sheet asks for plans carrying the Oncor approval stamp, separate electric and plumbing permits, a separate permit for any new fence, and a final inspection checking for a barrier at least four feet high with self-closing, self-latching gates.
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 Grapevine
What we build in Grapevine, TX
Also in Grapevine: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
About 70 percent of Grapevine’s water comes from the Trinity River Authority and the rest from Lake Grapevine, and the city bans irrigation between 10am and 6pm. 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.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Grapevine
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A free design visit in Grapevine
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 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 Inspection Department at the City of Grapevine 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 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 Tarrant County-local if you need us later.
Building in Grapevine
Grapevine backyard questions
The Building Inspection Department reviews residential projects in Grapevine. 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. Grapevine’s pool sheet asks for plans carrying the Oncor approval stamp, separate electric and plumbing permits, a separate permit for any new fence, and a final inspection checking for a barrier at least four feet high with self-closing, self-latching gates.
About 70 percent of Grapevine’s water comes from the Trinity River Authority and the rest from Lake Grapevine, and the city bans irrigation between 10am and 6pm. 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 Grapevine
Free design visit
Free design visits in Grapevine
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