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Tarrant County · Texas
Pergolas & Covered Patios in Arlington
Big flat backyards and slabs that are already poured.
Building in Arlington
Arlington is one of our favorite places to work for a boring reason: the backyards are already set up for it. A huge share of the housing stock here went up between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s, which means generous flat lots, an existing concrete patio slab against the house, and very often a pool that is thirty-plus years old and has never had a lick of shade over it.
Neighborhoods we work in
- Interlochen
- Viridian
- Country Club Estates
- Southeast Arlington
- Dalworthington Gardens
- Pantego
- Woodland West
Working with a slab that is already there
Most Arlington jobs start with a slab somebody poured in 1974. That is usually an asset. We core-drill through the slab where the posts land and set footings down into soil, so the structure bears on the ground rather than on your patio — the slab just becomes the floor.
What we check first is whether the slab is worth building over. If it has heaved, cracked through, or pitched back toward the house, we say so. Building a permanent structure on a slab that is already failing is one of the few ways to genuinely waste money on a project like this.
Shading a pool that has baked for forty years
Older Arlington neighborhoods — Interlochen, the Country Club area, big stretches of southeast Arlington — are full of 1970s and 80s diving pools with a bare concrete deck and nowhere to get out of the sun. It is the most common request we get in this city.
The answer is almost never a full cover over the whole deck. You want a shaded zone to retreat to, sited on the west or southwest side, with the rest of the deck left open so the pool still gets sun and does not turn into a cold, algae-friendly pond. A cabana or a covered section with a fan on the hot side does more for how you use that yard than blanketing the whole thing.
Mature canopy, and what it does to a roof
Arlington's established neighborhoods have serious tree cover now — post oaks and pecans that were saplings when the houses were new. That canopy is worth keeping, and it changes what we build. Under heavy overhang we favor metal roofing or a steeper pitch, because a low-slope shingle roof under a big pecan collects leaf litter and holds moisture.
Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego, both surrounded by Arlington, have their own municipal rules. We handle each city's permitting separately rather than assuming Arlington's process applies.
What We Build
Services in Arlington
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Selected Work
Projects near Arlington
Our Process
How a Arlington project goes
No mystery, no moving target. Here is exactly what happens from the first phone call to the last sweep of the driveway.
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We walk your yard
Nathan comes out, looks at the space, and asks what you actually want to do out there. Where the sun lands at four in the afternoon, where the gas and power are, what the HOA will allow. No sales pitch, no pressure, no charge.
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A real design, not a guess
You get a drawing with dimensions, material specs and stain colors — enough to see it before it exists and enough to hand to an HOA architectural committee.
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One number, in writing
An itemized, fixed bid. Everything that is included is on the page. If something genuinely changes, we tell you before we do it, not after. No change-order games.
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Permits and inspections
We pull the city permit, schedule the inspections, and handle the HOA submittal packet. You do not chase paperwork.
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We build it and we clean up
A start date you can plan around, a crew that shows up when we say, and a site that gets swept every evening. When we hand it over, it is finished — stained, sealed, and ready.
Common Questions
Building in Arlington
Do you build pergolas and patio covers in Arlington?
Yes — Arlington is part of our regular service area and we work in Interlochen, Viridian, Country Club Estates and throughout Tarrant County. We build custom pergolas, covered patios, pavilions, outdoor kitchens and decks, and we pull the city permit as part of every job.
How much does a pergola or covered patio cost in Arlington?
It depends on footprint, roof complexity, ceiling finish and site access — the honest range is wide enough that a number on a web page would be misleading. We walk the space and give you one fixed, itemized bid in writing at no charge.
Do you handle permits and HOA approval in Arlington?
Yes. We pull the city permit, schedule inspections, and assemble the HOA architectural submittal packet — elevations, scaled site plan, material specifications and stain color — as part of the project.
Free Estimates
Let’s talk about your Arlington backyard.
Nathan will walk your yard, talk through what will actually work, and give you a written number. It costs nothing and there is no obligation on the other side of it.