About San Angelo Patio Covers
We build patio covers, covered patios, carports and outdoor living structures across San Angelo and 22 surrounding communities. This page says how we work, because that is the part you can actually check before hiring anyone.
Outdoor living · illustrativeEvery estimate starts at the house
Not on the phone, and not from a satellite image. The three things that decide a patio cover project are the wall you would attach to, the ground the posts land in and where the sun is at the hour you actually use the space. None of those can be established remotely.
We would rather tell you at the walkthrough that a span will not work than after a layout is drawn. That conversation is cheaper for everybody at the start.
Where a project needs an engineered design, or a permit, or both, we say so before there is a number attached, because those are the two things that most often turn a quoted price into a different final price.
The parts that are invisible when it is finished
The attachment
Most houses here have brick or stone veneer between the patio and anything structural. Veneer holds up itself and nothing else. The attachment reaches framing behind it, or the cover stands on its own posts.
The footings
The soil series named from Tom Green County include two true Vertisols. Ground like that moves seasonally, so footings get designed for it rather than dug to a nominal depth.
The drainage
A new roof sends water somewhere. Where it lands, and what that does to the slab and the yard, is part of the design rather than an afterthought.
San Angelo and 22 communities
The permit path changes across that footprint more than the work does.
San Angelo requires a permit for accessory structures over 200 square feet and an engineered design for spans over 24 feet. Junction requires a permit for any addition of 25 square feet or more. Ballinger makes contractors register annually before they can pull one.
And six of the communities we serve, including Grape Creek with 3,594 people, have no municipal building department at all.
This site does not publish a phone number or an email address yet. The form on the contact page is the way to reach us, and it goes to a monitored inbox.
Want to talk about a specific property?
Send the address and what you are picturing. We come back with a range and the permit path that applies there.