Pools & Spas in Caddo Mills
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Caddo Mills, TX
Outdoor living is the covered patio, pool, kitchen, stone and lighting that make a backyard part of the home. Longhorn designs and builds them together for Caddo Mills homeowners in Hunt County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Caddo Mills
Caddo Mills is at the intersection of State Highway 66 and Farm Road 36, eight miles southwest of Greenville in southwestern Hunt County. Caddo Indians were early inhabitants and camped near the banks of Caddo Creek.
That ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built here. Here is what it does to a patio.
We file the permit with the city or county office that covers Caddo Mills and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Hunt County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Caddo Mills, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Caddo Mills
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Caddo Mills
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Caddo Mills
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Caddo Mills
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Caddo Mills
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Caddo Mills
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Caddo Mills
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Caddo Mills homes
Homes and Yards in Caddo Mills
Twenty years after the first settlers arrived in the late 1850s, I. T. Johnson and Henry King built a gristmill a mile west of the present townsite, and residents named the community for it. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad arrived in 1886.
On a small-town lot with prairie soils, a pergola or patio cover anchored on properly sized piers keeps its lines straight through wet and dry seasons.
Hunt County comprises 840 square miles of the Blackland Prairie, a vast plain with shallow stream valleys and well-rounded drainage divides. Rainfall averages forty-three inches a year.
Water comes from the City of Caddo Mills, which treats surface water.
A post office opened on June 16, 1879, and by the early 1880s the settlement had 100 residents, three churches, a school and at least a dozen businesses. As a Katy depot the town grew rapidly, reaching 500 people by 1892. The Caddo Mills Banner began weekly publication in 1897, and the State National Bank opened in 1905.
The population reached 700 on the eve of World War I, then fell to 600 in the 1920s. Caddo Mills had incorporated by the early 1940s, when it had 390 residents and twenty businesses. It had 1,302 residents by 1988, 1,068 in 1990 and 1,149 in 2000.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 73 hail reports in Hunt County from 2016 to 2025, 59 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 2.5 inches. 6 of those reports were logged at Caddo Mills itself, the largest 1.75 inches. The same records show 32 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 2 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Caddo Mills, TX
How is a pool built in Caddo Mills?
Blackland Prairie clay swells through a wet spring and shrinks hard by August, and a pool shell is a rigid object sitting in ground that moves around it. Here that means the shell, the beam and the deck are engineered for that movement from the drawing stage, and the flatwork gets its control joints placed on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends. In Caddo Mills the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Caddo Mills, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Caddo Mills?
Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops with the season, so a patio cover’s footings are the whole job. Posts set in shallow pads move with the top of the soil and take the roofline with them; footings taken below the active zone, tied to a slab that drains away from the house, do not. In Caddo Mills the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Caddo Mills, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Caddo Mills?
On Blackland Prairie clay a pergola’s posts are what decide whether it still stands square in five years. The clay moves most in the top few feet, so footings go deeper than the movement rather than resting in it, and the slab underneath gets its own drainage plan. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Caddo Mills?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Caddo Mills is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Caddo Mills and sits on footings designed for the ground under it. We match the roofline and the exterior to the house so it reads as part of it. More on sunrooms and patio enclosures.
Caddo Mills outdoor living questions
Almost always, for pools and for anything attached to the house, including patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures. Longhorn files the permit with the city or county office that covers Caddo Mills and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Caddo Mills sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Hunt County. The ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built, so we plan the drainage and the footings for it at the first visit rather than after something moves.
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HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
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