Dallas / Fire Pits

Fire Pit Installation in Dallas

Built-in and freestanding fire pits for Dallas backyards, sized to the lot and set with heat-rated stone that holds through summer heat and winter freezes.

A fire pit is the cheapest way to make a Dallas backyard usable on the cool nights that run from October into March. We build them across Lakewood, the M Streets, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, and the rest of the city, and most of the calls are the same: a place to sit outside with the family that looks built into the yard rather than rolled out of a box. We build fire pits that take the heat and the freeze and keep looking right.

The first choice is fuel, and in most of Dallas it comes down to natural gas. Inside the loop, gas service is already at the house, so running a line out to a fire pit is straightforward and a licensed plumber handles the connection while we build the stone. Gas is the easy daily-use setup: turn a key, you are done, no smoke to manage and no wood to store. Wood-burning is still popular on the larger Preston Hollow and Bluffview lots where there is room to keep it well clear of the house and the owner wants the smell and the crackle. Propane is the answer on the rare lot with no gas line or where running one is not worth it, fed from a hidden tank, though it costs more to run and the tank has to be refilled.

What the pit is made of decides how it ages. We build the surround in natural limestone, travertine, or stacked stone on the older inner-loop yards where the rest of the hardscape is already stone, and in concrete pavers where the patio is paver and the look should match. The fire itself sits in a steel burner pan or a cast insert rated for the heat, set so the stone never takes the flame directly. That separation is what keeps a Dallas fire pit from cracking the first hard freeze after a hot summer, because the wrong stone against direct heat fails in a season.

Built-in versus freestanding usually comes down to the lot. The smaller Lakewood and M Streets bungalow yards often do better with a compact built-in pit tucked into a patio corner, or a low gas fire table that does not eat the whole space. Bigger yards can carry a full circular built-in pit with room to walk all the way around it. Either way placement matters more here than people expect: we keep the pit well clear of the house, the fence, and any cover, and follow NFPA clearances, which is its own reason to favor gas on a tight lot where a wood fire would sit too close to a wood fence.

The thing that makes a fire pit feel finished is a seat wall around it. A low stone wall on two or three sides gives you built-in seating, holds a crowd without hauling out chairs, and ties the pit into the patio so it reads as one space instead of an object dropped in the middle. We build the wall in the same stone as the surround, and on a sloped Lakewood or Kessler-adjacent lot it can double as a low retaining wall that holds a level bench for the seating area.

If you want real warmth and a focal point against a wall, an outdoor fireplace is the other direction, taller, enclosed, and better at blocking wind, but it costs several times what a pit does and takes a wall to build against. A fire pit is the open, gather-around version and the right call for most Dallas yards. We build both, so we will tell you which fits your space. Most pits go in alongside other work, so the stone matches an outdoor kitchen or the patio, and one crew handles it on one timeline. We also build fire pits in Fort Worth. See the full patio and outdoor living scope or the rest of what we do in Dallas. Every job starts with a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.