Frisco / Fire Pits

Fire Pit Installation in Frisco

Built-in and freestanding fire pits for Frisco's newer backyards, built to clear the smaller lots and pass the HOA review.

Frisco backyards are newer and tighter than the older suburbs to the south. The homes in Phillips Creek Ranch, Newman Village, Starwood, The Trails, and Richwoods sit on master-planned lots where the yard is smaller, the build is recent, and the patio is often the only flat outdoor space you get. A fire pit is the most-asked feature here because it adds a place to sit outside without eating the whole yard, and on a new build the bones are usually clean to work with.

The thing to know in Frisco is the HOA. Most of these neighborhoods run an architectural review committee, and a built-in fire pit is the kind of permanent feature that needs sign-off before we start, sometimes with a drawing and a material list. We have been through these reviews and will give you what the committee asks for. It is worth doing right, because building first and asking later is how people end up tearing something out.

On what burns, natural gas is the common pick. Many Frisco homes were built with a gas stub already run to the patio, which means no trenching across a finished yard and a shorter, cheaper hookup, the licensed plumber just ties into the stub. Where there is no stub, the line runs from the meter and we plan the route before the patio gets touched. Wood-burning is available if you want the smell and the fire, but it needs more clearance than a lot of these smaller lots have. Propane is the route when you do not want a gas line at all, a hidden tank feeds the burner.

A built-in pit is a stone or paver surround on a footing with a steel burner insert that takes the heat. On a small Frisco lot, placement is the real constraint, the pit has to sit back from the fence, the house, and any covered patio to the clearances called for by NFPA, and a gas pit needs less open room around it than wood, which often makes it the only option that fits. We mark the spot in the yard before anything is set. Pavers and stone surrounds are the usual choice so the pit matches the patio, with cast concrete as the value route and freestanding bowls or tables when you want fire without building in.

A seat wall pairs well with a Frisco pit, a low stone bench around part of it saves dragging chairs out and uses the space better on a tight lot. If you want a tall structure with a chimney that faces one direction, that is an outdoor fireplace, bigger and more money, but on most Frisco lots there is more room for an open fire pit than a fireplace, and the pit is the more popular build.

A built-in gas fire pit with a stone surround generally runs $4,500 to $9,000 depending on size and stone, and less if there is already a gas stub at the patio or you go freestanding. Most jobs are three to five days on site once the HOA signs off. Plenty of owners do the pit alongside an outdoor kitchen or a retaining wall so it is one crew and one material palette. We build across Frisco and northern Collin County, and you can compare a fire pit in Plano nearby. See more in Frisco, or fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.