Pools & Spas in Greenville
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Greenville, 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 Greenville homeowners in Hunt County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Greenville
Greenville is the county seat of Hunt County, sixty miles northeast of Dallas on Interstate Highway 30. When the town was laid out, its site was described as a great prairie covered with tall waving grass.
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 Greenville 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 Greenville, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Greenville
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Greenville
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Greenville
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Greenville
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Greenville
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Greenville
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Greenville
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Greenville homes
Homes and Yards in Greenville
Greenville was established in 1846 and named for Gen. Thomas J. Green. Railroads arrived from 1880, and the town became a rail center and, by the mid-1880s, a leading cotton marketing location.
Older homes near a historic downtown often suit a patio cover or pergola sized to the house, with posts and trim that echo the original architecture.
Hunt County lies on a vast plain of the Blackland Prairie, with upland soils that are mostly loamy or clayey and loamy. Rainfall averages forty-three inches a year, and the growing season varies from 218 to 247 days.
Water comes from the City of Greenville, which treats surface water.
Greenville incorporated on February 15, 1852. In 1891 the city bought and began running an electricity generating plant, the first municipally owned utility system in Texas. By 1892 it reported 5,000 residents, two national banks, two opera houses, and the machine shops of the MKT railroad, and it shipped over $1 million worth of cotton each year.
Several colleges operated in Greenville, including Burleson College from 1895 to 1931 and Wesley College, which moved from Terrell in 1912 and remained until 1938. By 1914 the town had 14,000 residents, the largest cottonseed oil mill in the South, and a 3,500-volume Carnegie public library. In 1925 it had a population of 12,000 and forty-six manufacturing plants.
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. 7 of those reports were logged at Greenville itself, the largest 1 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 Greenville, TX
How is a pool built in Greenville?
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 Greenville the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Greenville, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Greenville?
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 Greenville the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Greenville, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Greenville?
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 Greenville?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Greenville is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Greenville 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.
Greenville 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 Greenville and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Greenville 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.
Other cities we build in near Greenville
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Hardscaping
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Patio Covers
Outdoor Kitchen Countertop Materials in Frisco, TX
Granite, porcelain, quartzite and quartz all behave differently in Frisco sun, freezes and clay. Here is a pick by exposure, a sealing test, and what the base under the stone needs.
Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
The HOA and the city are two separate approvals, and the HOA usually comes first. Here is the packet a DFW committee wants, how long it takes, why it says no, and how to answer a denial.
Free design visits in Greenville
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