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Serving Royse City, TX and surrounding areas. (469) 981-1228
Royse City Deck & Fence builds covered decks, custom decks, pergolas, and fences for Garland homeowners. We serve homes from the older neighborhoods near the downtown square to the newer subdivisions near Firewheel - permitted through the City of Garland, built for DFW clay soil, with responses within one business day.
Garland summers regularly push above 95 degrees, and an uncovered back patio becomes genuinely unusable for most of the day from June through September. A covered deck or patio cover creates a shaded outdoor space that your family can actually use through the hottest months - extending your outdoor season and making the backyard a real part of your home again.
Most Garland homes built between the 1960s and 1990s sit on modest suburban lots with standard back yards - dimensions that need careful planning to fit a deck that actually works with the house layout and available space. A custom design tailored to the specific lot avoids the cramped or mismatched results that come from fitting a standard plan to an older yard.
Garland has a large supply of homes built in the 1970s and 1980s, and the decks on those properties - if original or lightly updated - have now spent decades in Texas heat and clay-soil movement. Rotted ledger boards, shifted posts, and surface boards that have absorbed years of moisture are common findings on these older Garland decks. Getting the frame assessed now prevents a more serious failure later.
Garland's long outdoor season and sustained summer heat are hard on wood decking that has not been sealed recently. Composite boards resist the cupping and fading that wood experiences in this climate, and they do not need the annual staining that Garland summers demand from wood surfaces. Homeowners replacing older decks in this area increasingly choose composite to avoid the upkeep cycle.
Many wood privacy fences on Garland's older suburban lots were installed alongside the original homes and are now 30 or more years old. The clay-soil movement common across the Dallas area causes wood fence posts to shift and lean over time. Vinyl fencing resists that movement better, holds its appearance through the heat, and does not require the staining and sealing that wood demands every few years.
A pergola adds shade and structure to a Garland backyard without the full commitment of a solid roof cover. For homeowners near Lake Ray Hubbard or in Garland's older neighborhoods who want to create an outdoor living zone without a major enclosed structure, a pergola is often the right starting point - it improves the yard immediately while leaving room to add more later.
Garland is one of the largest cities in Texas, with a population of around 240,000 and a housing stock built primarily between the 1960s and 1990s. That means most Garland homes are now 30 to 60 years old - old enough that original decks, if they still exist, are at or well past the end of their structural life. Homes of this era were often built with the minimum required framing, and decades of DFW heat, heavy rain, and clay-soil movement have taken a real toll on any outdoor structure not maintained with regular sealing and inspection. A deck builder who has worked on Garland's mid-century housing stock understands what to look for in the ledger connection, what the framing under the surface boards actually looks like, and how to match the design to a lot that was laid out before modern outdoor living standards.
The soil is the factor that does not change no matter how old or new the home is. Garland sits on the same expansive clay that runs across the entire DFW area - heavy black clay that swells after rain and contracts during dry summers. Footings that are not deep enough or that do not have enough concrete around them will shift with that seasonal movement, and a deck that starts out level can gradually rack and loosen as the ground cycles through wet and dry years. This is not a problem unique to Garland, but it is one that gets worse if ignored and that a locally experienced contractor addresses from the first measurement.
Our crew works throughout Garland regularly, and we pull permits through the City of Garland Building Inspection Division on a consistent basis. Garland processes a high volume of residential permits given its size, and knowing current review timelines and what inspectors check at each stage keeps our projects on schedule. The homes near downtown Garland and the older core neighborhoods tend to have different lot configurations than the newer subdivisions built in the southern and eastern parts of the city - and both require different approaches when it comes to laying out a deck or cover structure.
Garland stretches from its western border with Dallas out to Lake Ray Hubbard on the east side. The neighborhoods near Firewheel Town Center tend to be from the 1990s and 2000s, while the streets closer to the historic downtown square contain some of Garland's oldest homes. Whether your property is in one of those established neighborhoods or in a newer part of the city, we have worked on homes across the full range of Garland's housing stock. The soil conditions are similar throughout - DFW clay does not change based on which decade a neighborhood was built.
We also serve the surrounding communities. Homeowners in Mesquite - just south of Garland along I-635 - face many of the same older housing stock conditions, and we handle projects there regularly. We also work in Sachse to the north, where the housing is newer but the clay soil and summer heat are the same.
Tell us your Garland address and what you have in mind. We respond within one business day and schedule a time to come out - no phone-based guesses, no pressure.
We visit your property, measure the space, and assess the soil and existing structure conditions. You receive a written, itemized quote with materials, labor, permit fees, and a realistic timeline - nothing changes after you approve it.
Once you approve the quote, we submit your permit application to the City of Garland Building Inspection Division and confirm your construction start date. Permit review typically takes one to three weeks - we track it and keep you updated.
Footings are set deep enough for Garland clay. The city inspector reviews structural framing before the surface is closed in. We complete the build, pass final inspection, and walk the finished project with you before we leave.
We serve homeowners across all of Garland - from the older neighborhoods near downtown to the subdivisions near Firewheel. Call or send us a message and we will get back to you within one business day.
Garland is the third-largest city in the Dallas metro, with around 240,000 residents and a geographic footprint that stretches from the Dallas border on the west to Lake Ray Hubbard on the east. Most of the city was built during the postwar decades, and the resulting housing stock is a mix of modest brick ranch homes, split-level houses, and larger properties from the 1980s and 1990s - all sitting on the same expansive clay soil that defines home maintenance across the DFW area. The historic downtown square, with its original 1920s commercial buildings and train depot, anchors the oldest part of the city. Firewheel Town Center in eastern Garland serves as the retail and dining hub for the newer subdivisions built over the past 25 years. Per Wikipedia, Garland is also one of the most ethnically diverse cities in Texas.
The city borders Dallas to the west, Sachse and Wylie to the north, and Rowlett to the east along Lake Ray Hubbard. Homeowners in these adjacent communities often deal with the same combination of clay-soil movement and aging housing stock that is common throughout this part of the metro. Whether your home is near the lake, the mall, or the downtown square, the structural conditions that affect outdoor projects are consistent across the city.
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Learn MoreGarland's outdoor season is long - the sooner your deck or covered patio is built, the more of it you get to use this year. Call or message us now for a free, written estimate.