Service Areas

We build across Texas outside the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metros. The state's regions differ enough that the same floor plan gets a different foundation, wall package and schedule depending on where it lands.

Hill Country and the Edwards Plateau

West of Austin and San Antonio, the Hill Country is the southeast edge of the Edwards Plateau: karst limestone and granite hills from about 980 to 2,460 feet, a thin layer of topsoil with exposed rock and boulders, and Ashe juniper and live oak on the slopes. It is also called Flash Flood Alley, with significant floods in 1978, 1987, 1998, 2002 and 2025. Here we plan for rock excavation, pad placement above drainage paths, and septic designs that fit shallow soil. Over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, septic plans need an engineer or sanitarian.

The I-35 Blackland Prairie corridor

From north of Dallas to San Antonio, Houston Black clay, the Texas state soil, covers about 1.5 million acres of the Blackland Prairie. It is a classic shrink-swell soil: it cracks when dry and swells when wet, and that movement often limits building site development. Around Waco, Temple, Killeen, Georgetown and the east side of Austin, slab design and drainage around the building matter as much as the steel above them.

East Texas Piney Woods

Around Tyler, Longview, Lufkin and Nacogdoches, the Piney Woods typically get 40 to 52 inches of rain a year, with some areas over 60. Upland soils are mostly loamy and well drained, while floodplains and low terraces are clayey and poorly drained. Lot clearing, stump removal, drainage and condensation control are the big items. Texas Farm Credit notes barndominiums are popular all over East Texas.

Coastal Bend and the Gulf side

Corpus Christi is the largest city of the Coastal Bend, which traditionally includes Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and San Patricio counties. Fourteen coastal counties (plus part of Harris County east of Highway 146) are in the Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area, where most new homes need a WPI-8 windstorm inspection during construction to qualify for TWIA wind coverage. We schedule those inspections into the build.

West Texas, the South Plains and the Panhandle

The Llano Estacado rises from about 3,000 feet in the southeast to over 5,000 in the northwest, with caliche capping the Ogallala Formation and under 23 inches of rain a year. Lubbock is its largest city; Midland, Odessa and Amarillo are the other big centers. Amarillo, at about 3,700 feet, averages 17.9 inches of snow, gets wind gusts of 50 mph or more each year, and has an average first freeze around October 20. Up here we think about wind, snow drifting at overhead doors, hail and well water from the Ogallala.

Brazos Valley, North Texas and in between

We also build around College Station and Brenham, Wichita Falls and Sherman, Abilene and San Angelo. Each town page covers what is different locally.