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One property, one connected plan

Complete Backyard Design & Build

Pool, spa, cooking, shade, fire, drainage, lighting, and hardscape planned as one coordinated outdoor environment.

A curtain of water cascades from a white pavilion roof into a freeform pool screening a lounge seating area beside an outdoor kitchen

The strongest backyards are not assembled one upgrade at a time. Robert begins with the home, grade, access, drainage, views, and the way people will move between water, cooking, shade, fire, and conversation.

Robert Welty carries that connected idea from the site walk into construction. Pool structure, outdoor rooms, utilities, materials, equipment, and finish transitions are resolved as parts of one property plan instead of competing scopes.

  • One design direction for the pool and the spaces around it
  • Earlier coordination of grade, drainage, utilities, and access
  • Clearer transitions between water, cooking, shade, and gathering
  • A material palette considered across the whole backyard

What is included

What this service can cover.

  1. Property-led master plan

    A connected layout shaped by the home, views, sun, grade, drainage, construction access, and everyday circulation.

  2. Water environment

    Pool, spa, water features, decking, lighting, equipment, and controls designed as the visual and functional center of the plan.

  3. Outdoor living zones

    Cooking, dining, shade, fire, lounge, and transition spaces placed where they support how the property will actually be used.

  4. Coordinated selections

    Materials, finishes, utilities, and highly specific or long-lead decisions aligned before they can disrupt field work.

Before you decide

What this actually turns on.

The parts of the job that are decided by the ground, the weather and the way things fail here — rather than by taste.

Everything under the deck happens once

Gas to a kitchen and a fire feature, water to a spa and a hose bib, conduit to lighting and to the equipment pad, and the drainage lines that carry all of it away — every one of those runs under whatever you pour on top. Planning the backyard as one project means those trenches are dug once, in one pass, before the slab goes down. Adding an outdoor kitchen two years after the deck is finished usually means cutting into it, and a saw-cut patch in a concrete or stone deck never quite disappears. The order things happen in is worth as much attention as what they are made of.

Machine access closes the day the deck is poured

Excavation, gunite, stone, and the heavy end of the landscape all need a path from the street to the back of the property. On tight suburban lots there is often exactly one, usually down a side yard between a fence and the house, and it decides how large a machine can reach the work. Once the deck is in, that path is closed. That is why the sequence on a whole-backyard project tends to run from the far corner back toward the gate rather than in the order a homeowner would rank the elements — and why anything you might add later is far cheaper to rough in now than to reach later.

The house has to be able to feed it

A pool heater, a spa, a grill, a fire feature, and a run of low-voltage lighting all draw on services sized years ago for a house without any of them. Electrical panel capacity and available breaker spaces are the usual limit; on the gas side, meter and line sizing decide whether everything can run at once or only in turns. Whether the lot is on a natural-gas utility at all is a separate question, and a good part of the rural acreage around Montgomery and Plantersville is not — those properties run propane, which brings tank siting, screening, and refill access into the layout rather than into a footnote.

Grade is the one thing a plan cannot fake

A backyard that steps down toward the trees, or sits below the slab of the house, or falls toward a lakefront setback, does not become level because a drawing shows it level. Retaining, fill, and the elevation of a deck relative to the back door are the decisions that make an outdoor space feel like part of the house instead of a platform in the yard — and they are also the ones that decide where water sits after a storm. Settling elevations early costs a conversation. Discovering them during excavation costs the layout.

Written from how Robert Welty builds here — more than 35 years of hands-on pool construction, and the person who walks the property before anything is drawn.

About Robert

Our process

How the project moves forward.

  1. 1Property discovery and site review
  2. 2Whole-backyard concept and circulation
  3. 3Scope, systems, materials, and selections
  4. 4Access, drainage, utilities, and sequencing
  5. 5Construction, startup, and owner orientation
Covered outdoor kitchen and lounge with a stone fireplace, TV, and grill station beside a purple-lit pool waterfall feature at nightCovered outdoor living pavilion with stone fireplace, pizza oven, mounted TV, wicker seating, and a stainless-steel outdoor kitchen with grill under a wood-planked ceilingFlush spa with white cap and glass-tile band sitting inside the pool's edge

What a customer said

Not our words.

5.0 from 8 Google reviews. One of them is below; the rest are on the profile. Transcribed from the profile on August 20, 2026. Read them on Google

Built us a beautiful pool and transformed our backyard. Robert was on the job EVERY day and made sure everything worked out for us even when issues arose. Not only did they do a phenomenal job, they've stuck with us in the 18 months since it's been done, whenever I called with a question or needing a fix he was over to help. Blessed to have meet and worked with Reef Pools.

Ryan Rosell

Questions

Helpful answers before you begin.

Does a complete backyard project have to include every feature?

No. The value is in planning the important pieces together. The final scope can focus on the pool and the outdoor-living elements that genuinely improve the property and the way you use it.

Can the backyard be planned in phases?

Potentially. A connected plan can identify what should be built together and what may be deferred without creating avoidable conflicts in access, drainage, utilities, structure, or finishes.

Where does Reef Pools and Spas build complete backyards?

Reef Pools and Spas is based in Montgomery and considers complete-backyard projects across Montgomery County, Lake Conroe, and selected Texas communities within roughly 100 miles depending on scope.

Will building a backyard damage the trees we want to keep?

It can, and that is a planning question rather than a machine-operator one. A mature pine or oak has roots reaching out to roughly the edge of its canopy and beyond, so the risk is rarely the trunk — it is trenching, grade changes and heavy equipment traffic across a root zone, and the damage from those often does not show for a season or two. The way to protect a tree is to decide before the work starts which ones are staying, route access and utilities around them, and design the deck to that rather than discover the conflict mid-excavation. On the wooded lots common around Montgomery, that usually shapes the layout more than any single preference does.

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Where Reef builds this

Complete Backyards across Southeast Texas.

Ground conditions, permitting, and approvals change from town to town. Each page below covers what that means for a property in that market.

All 50 communities Reef builds in

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