Your favorite room, out back in Fate
Complete backyards for Fate homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Rockwall County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Fate
What should Fate homeowners know before building a backyard?
Fate sits in the center of Rockwall County on I-30 and was a village of a few hundred people as recently as 2000; nearly all of its current housing is master-planned subdivision product built since the mid-2000s, so yards are new-construction lots with young trees and builder-graded drainage. Rockwall County is the smallest county in Texas by area, and Fate’s growth has run east along I-30 rather than outward onto acreage.
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 Fate and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
The backyard in Fate
What we build in Fate, TX
Also in Fate: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Fate
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A free design visit in Fate
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 Fate 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 Rockwall County-local if you need us later.
Building in Fate
Fate 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 Fate and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Nearby
Other cities we build in near Fate
Free design visit
Free design visits in Fate
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