Pools & Spas in Valley View
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Valley View, 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 Valley View homeowners in Cooke County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Valley View
Valley View is on Spring Creek where Interstate Highway 35, Farm Road 922, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway meet, ten miles south of Gainesville in southern Cooke County. Its name presumably came from the view of the Spring Creek valley.
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.
In Valley View the job is reviewed by the City Hall (Permits), and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Our permit guide lists the office for every city we have checked.
Longhorn has been building since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Valley View, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Valley View
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Valley View
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Valley View
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Valley View
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Valley View
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Valley View
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Valley View
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Valley View homes
Homes and Yards in Valley View
The Lee family settled the site in 1870, and L. W. Lee platted a town on his land in 1872. Eighteen families moved in that year, a post office opened, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway arrived in 1886.
Near an old town square, a patio cover with clean lines and brick or stone at the base can relate to older commercial buildings without copying them.
Cooke County’s rolling terrain has mixed soils ranging from sandy to loam and from red to black. About three-quarters of the county lies in the watershed of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, and rainfall averages about thirty-four inches a year.
Water comes from the City of Valley View, which draws on groundwater.
By 1884 Valley View had an estimated 250 people, three steam gristmills and cotton gins, and three general stores, and it shipped cotton, livestock, and wheat. In 1903 the town built a two-story brick schoolhouse and six brick business buildings, gained telephone service, and opened a bank.
Two fires struck in 1924. The east side of the town square burned in the fall, and on December 19 bank robbers set a fire while taking $5,000 from the First National Bank, destroying two more city blocks. Valley View incorporated in 1980 with 514 residents, and the population was 737 in 2000.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 91 hail reports in Cooke County from 2016 to 2025, 74 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 3 inches. 7 of those reports were logged at Valley View itself, the largest 1.75 inches. The same records show 47 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 82 mph, and 6 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 Valley View, TX
How is a pool built in Valley View?
Grand Prairie ground is soil over limestone, so a pool excavation here often meets rock rather than shrink-swell clay. That is a cost we would rather price honestly at the design visit than discover halfway through the dig. In Valley View the permit goes through the City Hall (Permits), and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Valley View?
Grand Prairie limestone often sits close to the surface, which gives a patio cover’s footings rock to bear on instead of moving clay. The trade is excavation: drilling into limestone takes different equipment than augering clay, and that belongs in the price up front. In Valley View the permit goes through the City Hall (Permits), and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Valley View?
On Grand Prairie ground a pergola’s footings often reach limestone quickly, which makes a stable base. Getting there is the work, because shallow rock means drilling rather than augering. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Valley View?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Valley View is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the City Hall (Permits) 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.
How a Backyard Project Runs in Valley View
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A free design visit in Valley View
A designer comes out to the house, measures the space a backyard project has to fit, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want it to do. You leave with a firm price. On Grand Prairie ground, that is also when the grading, drainage and movement details get decided rather than improvised on site.
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Drawings, permit and HOA
We file the permit with City Hall (Permits) at the City of Valley View and follow it through review. Where an HOA wants a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
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One crew, one schedule
The same team builds the whole backyard project in order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished backyard project with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work, and we are a phone call away if you need us later.
Valley View outdoor living questions
The City Hall (Permits) reviews residential projects in Valley View. Pools and structures attached to the house, such as patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures, almost always need a permit. Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection.
Valley View sits on Grand Prairie ground in Cooke 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.
Where an HOA in Valley View asks for a submittal, we prepare the drawings and details it wants, alongside the city permit, so the approval runs in parallel with the design rather than after it.
Yes. Many homeowners start with one piece, such as a pool or a patio cover, and add the rest later. We plan the whole space up front so the gas, power, water and drainage for later phases are in place from the start.
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