i30 Builders · Collin County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Lucas, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Lucas, TX, big or small.
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Who builds custom home projects in Lucas, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Lucas, TX, and custom kitchens and baths, large projects and small ones. Every job is priced in writing after a site walk, before any deposit, with permits handled.
- Pricing
- Written price after a site walk, before any deposit
- Permits
- Handled by us
- Warranty
- One-year workmanship warranty, in writing
- Insurance
- $1M GL + $1M Umbrella, certificate on request
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The Work
Fences, decks and patio covers.
What the City of Lucas requires
Lucas is more permissive than most of its neighbors on height, and then takes it back with a transparency rule that catches people out.
- Permit required for all new fencing. Repairs do not require a permit. Fee $75.00. Eight feet maximum on side and rear yards.
- Six feet in the front yard , which is far more permissive than Rowlett at 36 inches or Sachse at 3 feet.
- The catch: fencing located within the required front, side and rear yard setbacks must be at least 50 percent see-through .
- Solid privacy fencing is permitted outside the setbacks.
- So the six-foot front yard allowance does not mean a six-foot solid privacy fence at the front setback.
- This is the single most misread part of the ordinance. Sports courts: 10 feet maximum.
- Anything above 8 feet requires board approval.
- Prohibited: razor ribbon, plywood, and materials not normally used for fencing.
- Agricultural fencing is allowed generally but not as a pool barrier .
- Replacement materials must match the original, and vertical alignment variance is limited to 20 percent.
- A minimum 3-foot gate is required for emergency access.
- Pool barriers: 4 feet minimum, self-closing and self-latching gates with the latch in the upper quarter, and the pool barrier permit must be approved before the pool permit is released .
- Pool setbacks are 20 feet from rear and side property lines.
- Accessory buildings over 200 square feet require a building permit , and patio covers are named as accessory buildings.
- Lucas is one of only three cities in our area that publishes a size threshold at all.
- An engineered foundation is required for structures over 1,000 square feet, or where a new foundation connects to or abuts an existing one.
- One drafting quirk worth knowing: the fencing article is written to apply to fences “greater than sixty feet in length and greater than thirty-six inches in height.” Read literally, a short tall fence falls outside it.
- We would not rely on that reading without asking the city.
Source: Read from the city’s own published code and adopted fee schedule on 22 August 2026. Codes and fees change and city staff interpret them, so we confirm for your address before we pull the permit.
Septic fields decide where a deck can go
Much of Lucas is on septic. Permit submittals for additions and accessory structures with plumbing require septic impact approval from Collin County Development Services .
- More practically: a deck or a patio placed over a septic drain field is a real problem here in a way it simply is not in a subdivision city on municipal sewer.
- We locate the field before we design a deck, and if your plan puts a structure on it we will tell you before you are attached to the design.
- Collin County permits reach further than people expect.
- The county requires a Development Permit for anything that disturbs ground or adds a footprint, fences named explicitly, and it applies in unincorporated areas and inside city ETJs .
- On large lots at the city edge, check which jurisdiction you are actually in before anyone digs.
Lucas soil is less uniform than the rest of our area
Collin County overall is the most Houston Black of the five counties we work in at 43 percent.
- But Lucas itself is different: it carries a meaningful Austin silty clay and Stephen silty clay component alongside the Houston Black and Heiden.
- Those are shallower, calcareous soils over chalk and marl, and they move far less.
- Austin measures 4.98 percent linear extensibility over the top three feet against Houston Black’s 13.
- So conditions vary across Lucas more than they do in a smaller city, and on acreage lots they can vary within a single property.
- On a long fence run here we do not assume one condition end to end, and we size footings for the worst section rather than the average.
Source: Soil figures computed from USDA-NRCS SSURGO county data. These are county-level figures, not parcel-level. A specific address needs its own lookup, which we do before quoting a long run.
Our Services in Lucas
What we build.
Fence Installation and Repair
Board-on-board, horizontal, and ornamental steel. Measured on your line, priced in writing after the walk.
Cedar, horizontal and iron
Deck Building and Restoration
New builds, rebuilds, and bringing a weathered deck back rather than replacing it.
New builds and restoration
Patio Covers, Pavilions and Pergolas
Roofed cedar pavilions and open-top pergolas, on flatwork built to carry them.
Cedar covers, pavilions, pergolas
Outdoor Kitchens
Built-in grill islands and full outdoor kitchens, with the utilities run properly and a roof over them.
Grills, islands, power and gas
Concrete Patios, Walks and Driveways
Reinforced patios, walks, pads and driveways, built on a base that expects the clay to move.
Patios, walks, pads, drives
Travertine Patios, Walkways and Pool Decks
French pattern and straight lay, patios, walkways, steps and pool decks, set on a base built to hold them.
Patios, pool decks, walkways
Retaining Walls
Stone and block walls for slopes, raised beds and level yards, built for the clay they sit in.
Stone and block, engineered
French Drains and Yard Drainage
French drains, surface drains, buried downspout lines and regrading, so water leaves the yard instead of sitting in it.
French drains and grading
Room Additions
A bedroom, a bigger living room, a primary suite or a second living area, built onto the house so it looks and feels like it was always there.
New rooms tied into the house
Custom Kitchen Remodeling
Whole-room remodels and planned changes to part of the room, mid-grade to high-end, with cabinetry built to fit. Not a countertop swap.
Layouts, cabinetry, finishes
Custom Bathroom Remodeling
Primary and guest baths, taken back to the studs and rebuilt to a plan. Not a tub-to-shower kit, and not a cosmetic refresh.
Showers, wet rooms, vanities
Wet Rooms and Curbless Showers
The shower and tub in one waterproofed room, or a shower you walk straight into. No curb, no step, and no water where it should not be.
Curbless showers, one wet zone
Home Offices with Custom Built-Ins
A desk wall, cabinetry and shelving built to fit the room, with the outlets, data, lighting and quiet a real workday needs.
Desks, cabinetry, built-ins
Custom Home Gyms
A room built for the way you train: the floor, the walls, the power, the air and the mounting points, planned around the equipment.
Floors, mirror walls, power, cooling
Wet Bars, Butler's Pantries and Wine Rooms
A bar with a sink and an ice maker, a pantry between the kitchen and the dining room, or a glass wine room that holds its temperature through a Texas August. Drawn to the space and built to fit it.
Bars, pantries, wine rooms
Fireplace Remodels, TV Walls and Feature Walls
A new surround and mantel, a wall built for the TV with the wires inside it, cedar beams across the ceiling. The living room's main wall and ceiling, planned together and built to fit.
Surrounds, TV walls, cedar beams
Media Rooms and Game Rooms
A room built for the screen and the sound. Walls that keep the noise in, lights that dim without glare, seating and storage built to the room, and every wire run before the drywall closes.
Sound, lighting, seating, wiring
Whole-Home Remodeling
The kitchen, the baths, the floors and the rooms between them, planned together and built in one sequence, with one person to call from the first walk to the punch list.
Several rooms, one written scope
Aging-in-Place Bathrooms
A bathroom you can keep using at any age or after a surgery: no step into the shower, a seat, bars where hands reach, and doors wide enough, without the room looking like a hospital.
Curbless entry, grab bars, seats
Custom Closets and Dressing Rooms
Walk-in closets and dressing rooms laid out around what you own, with cabinetry built to the walls and light you can match clothes by.
Closet systems, islands, lighting
Mudrooms and Laundry Rooms
A drop zone at the door your family actually uses, and a laundry room laid out in the order the laundry moves, with the plumbing, power and venting planned behind it.
Lockers, benches, counters, sinks
Built-Ins and Custom Millwork
Bookcases, window seats, media walls and paneled rooms drawn to your walls and finished in place, so they read as part of the house rather than furniture against it.
Bookcases, window seats, paneling
Stair Remodels and Railings
Carpeted stairs rebuilt in wood, worn treads replaced, and rails and balusters changed out in steel or wood, with every step and guard kept to code.
Treads, risers, rails, balusters
Garage Conversions
Turn the garage into a bedroom, an office, a gym or a guest suite that reads as part of the house from the street and from the hallway.
Bedrooms, offices, gyms, suites
Sunrooms and Patio Enclosures
The covered patio you already have, closed in with framed walls, windows and a door, then insulated, cooled and finished like the room beside it.
Patios closed in and cooled
ADUs, Casitas and Guest Houses
A guest house, casita or backyard suite, designed for your lot and your city's rules, then built from the foundation to the final inspection.
Guest houses, casitas, suites
Screened Porches and Retractable Screens
Screen walls on the patio cover you have, or a new porch built for them, with fixed panels, motorized screens that roll down at the touch of a button, or a mix.
Screen walls, motorized screens
Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire Pits
A masonry fireplace under the patio cover, a gas fire table by the pool or a wood-burning pit out in the yard, set where the fire rules allow and built on a footing that holds.
Masonry fireplaces, fire pits
Pool Cabanas and Pool Houses
Shade by the water, a place to change and rinse off, a half bath so nobody drips through the house, and the pool gear out of sight, in a building that matches the house.
Cabanas, pool houses, showers
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Before you build in Lucas
Neighborhoods we serve in Lucas
From Forest Creek Estates, Estates at Austin Trail, Claremont Springs to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Lucas. Six school districts serve parts of the city depending on the address, along Lucas Rd and FM 1378. Whether you need an HOA-approved cedar privacy fence, a storm-damage repair or a new deck, we bring the same quality work to every Lucas yard.
- Forest Creek Estates
- Estates at Austin Trail
- Claremont Springs
- Rockland Farms
- Cimarron
- Wolf Creek
- Lovejoy Country Estates
Lucas Questions
Home project questions in Lucas
Can I put a six-foot fence in my front yard in Lucas?
You can go to six feet, but anything inside a required setback has to be at least 50 percent see-through. A solid six-foot fence at the front setback is not permitted.
Do I need a permit to repair my fence?
No. Lucas requires a permit for new fencing only.
Can I build a deck over my septic field?
No, and we check before designing. Additions and accessory structures with plumbing also need septic impact approval from Collin County.
Does my patio cover need a permit?
If the accessory building is over 200 square feet, yes. Lucas is one of the few cities around here that actually publishes that threshold.
Which school district am I in?
It depends on your address. Six ISDs serve parts of Lucas: Allen, Lovejoy, McKinney, Plano, Princeton and Wylie.
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