The Colony Patio Covers & Pergolas — Insured

Call (888) 415-7048 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in The Colony, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.

We also serve Lewisville, TX and the rest of Collin County. Everything starts at the McKinney Elite Patio Covers homepage.

McKinney Elite Patio Covers covers the same range of work in The Colony that we do in McKinney — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• Aluminum Patio Covers — Aluminum is most of what gets built in McKinney, and nearly the whole quality conversation reduces to one specification that most quotes never print anywhere on the page: the thickness of the roll-formed pan sitting over your head. Everything else on that page is downstream of that one figure, and most bidders will not print it unless you ask twice for it in writing.
• Alumawood & Composite Covers — Alumawood and its competitors give you a wood-grain look in aluminum with no sealing, no rot and no carpenter bees anywhere in the beams. Before you buy one in McKinney there is a single thing to understand about the material, and it is not printed anywhere in the brochure or on the sample board.
• Lattice Patio Covers — A lattice cover is the one patio structure in McKinney with almost nothing on it for a hailstorm to ruin, which is an odd claim to be able to make about the cheapest item on the list. It is also, regularly, the product people buy while expecting shelter from it, and shelter is the one thing an open frame was never going to give them.
• Wood Patio Covers — Wood is the one framing material hail cannot touch, and in McKinney that counts for more than it sounds like it should. Nothing about a cedar beam or a Douglas fir rafter registers an impact that would write off an aluminum roof, and that changes what a bad spring actually costs you, because the expensive part of the structure is not the part taking the hit.
• Pergola Installation — A pergola in McKinney is generally the second structure on the property. The builder supplied a covered patio, and the pergola goes out beyond it to carry shade over the grill, the spa or a seating area on the lawn where the sun arrives hard at four in the afternoon and stays until it drops behind the fence.
• Freestanding Pergolas — Freestanding pergolas suit McKinney lots better than they suit most places we work, and the reason is simply room. On the larger parcels north and east of town, the interesting part of the garden is nowhere near the back wall of the house, and there is no structural reason to build against it.

See the full list of McKinney services, or call (888) 415-7048.

The Colony sits in Denton County with a population of roughly 44,534 at the 2020 census, close enough to McKinney that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Grandscape, Austin Ranch.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. The Colony properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Denton County, and a patio cover contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.