Southlake / Fire Pits

Fire Pit Installation in Southlake

Custom gas and wood-burning fire pits built into Southlake backyards, matched to the stone you already have.

Southlake gives a fire pit room to breathe. On the estate lots out in Carillon and Clariden, and the larger half-acre and acre yards across town, there is space to set a pit well off the house and the pool and still keep an open lawn around it. That space changes the build. We can run a bigger gather-around pit or a long fire table without crowding anything, and we have the distance to meet the clearances that matter near a covered patio or a cedar fence. The first thing we do at the estimate is walk the yard and find where the pit actually wants to sit.

The main decision is gas versus wood-burning. A natural gas fire pit lights with a switch, throws no smoke or ash, and is the option most Southlake owners pick because it gets used on a weeknight, not just for a planned fire. It needs a gas line run to it, and on the bigger lots here that run can be long, which we account for in the quote. A wood-burning pit costs less and gives you the real flame and crackle, but it makes smoke and ash and your HOA may restrict it. Propane is the third route when there is no gas line nearby and you do not want to trench the yard, fed from a hidden tank, though you trade the convenience of never refilling. We talk through all three on site.

What holds up over the years is below the stone. A pit set straight on pavers with no footing heaves with the soil and the surround pulls apart by the second winter. We pour a real footing, set a steel ring or fire-rated liner at the core so the heat never touches the decorative stone, and lay the surround in heat-rated mortar so it takes the Texas summers and the winter freezes. Every pit is set to NFPA clearances off the house, the fence, and anything overhead.

On materials, Southlake leans higher-end stone because the pit has to match a backyard that is already finished. Travertine and natural limestone are the usual picks here, the same stone we set as pool coping and patio across town, with a flagstone or cut-stone cap you can rest a drink on. Built-in is the look most owners want, a pit that reads as original to the yard rather than a freestanding bowl moved in from a patio store. We match the surround to your existing coping and patio so it ties in.

A fire pit also pairs naturally with a low seat wall. An 18 to 24 inch wall wrapped around two or three sides gives you built-in seating for a crowd without dragging chairs across the lawn, and it carries the same stone as the pit. That seat wall is the same build as a retaining wall, so when the yard is graded for one we often set both together. Many Southlake pits go in alongside an outdoor kitchen or a pool project, one crew and one material palette across the whole backyard.

If what you really want is a tall built structure with a chimney and a mantel, that is an outdoor fireplace, a different and larger build. A fire pit is the open, gather-around feature and the lower-cost route, usually $3,000 to $9,000 installed and 3 to 5 days on site, with a gas pit and a longer line run or premium stone at the higher end. We measure and give you a fixed number on site, not a phone quote. You can also compare a fire pit in Highland Park. Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate.