Pools & Outdoor Living in Hurst, TX

A pool is the easy part of a Hurst backyard. The hard part is everything it shares the yard with — the deck, the covered kitchen, the drainage, the grading, and the soil moving under all of it — which is why the backyards that still look right in ten years are planned as one system, not a hole in the ground with features scattered around it. In a mature suburb like Hurst, that often means designing around trees that have stood for fifty years.

The ground under the whole yard

Hurst sits in the Eastern Cross Timbers, so most backyards here are sandy loam over an expansive clay subsoil edging toward Grand Prairie limestone. That top layer drains well, but the clay beneath swells and shrinks with the seasons, working on a pool shell, a concrete deck, and a patio slab just as it works on the house. When those are built by separate crews to separate specs, they crack apart at the seams. Coordinating the shell, the decking, and any footings for a pergola or outdoor kitchen so they move together — or are deliberately isolated — is the single biggest reason a backyard ages well.

Mature lots, real trees

The older Hurst core — the Bell-era streets around Redbud Estates, Hurst Hills, and the Bellaire corridor — offers something newer suburbs can't: big, established lots with mature canopy and no HOA committee second-guessing the design. That's a gift and a constraint. Setting a pool and deck among fifty-year-old root systems and existing grade changes takes planning, not just a dig date, and it's the kind of thing better sorted at the design table than at the shovel.

A pool is a trades project

A pool builder builds the pool — but the pool is only one system in a backyard full of them. The barrier and fencing have to meet safety code, the bonding and lighting are state-licensed electrical work, the gas line to a grill or fire feature is licensed plumbing, and even a new sprinkler zone is licensed irrigation work. That coordination — the whole backyard, not just the water — is where a general contractor earns the role.

Permitting and per-permit registration

Backyard work runs through Hurst's EnerGov Citizen Self-Service portal (css.hursttx.gov), with the pool, electrical, gas, and any structure inspected as the job moves and Community Development's Building Inspections at 1505 Precinct Line Road. Hurst no longer runs an annual contractor registration; instead each contractor is added under the application's "Contacts" tab with a U.S.-issued ID and general-liability insurance certificate, and the electrical, plumbing, and irrigation trades attach their state licenses — so every crew is on file before a permit is pulled.

Working with The Remo Guys

We're an insured and bonded design-build team based in Allen, roughly 40 miles east, serving Hurst and the wider metroplex — one crew planning the whole backyard, not a local pool storefront. Building Inspections answers at 817-788-7088.