Plumber in Longwood Village, Cypress TX for 1990s homes on the golf course

Longwood Village at a glance

Longwood Village sits in ZIP 77429 in unincorporated Harris County. A local agent’s neighborhood guide places it at Spring Cypress Road and Louetta Road, minutes from Highway 249, and says the community was established in 1995 with more than 1,500 homes divided into 21 sections. HAR.com counts 1,435 single-family properties in its 2025 data. The neighborhood grew up around what is now Longwood Golf Club, a course designed by Keith Fergus that golf directories list as established in 1995.

Attendance zones change. Confirm current school assignments with Cy-Fair ISD for any address you are considering.

Compared with the larger custom homes in some nearby 77429 neighborhoods, Longwood Village is a neighborhood of mid-size family homes on moderate lots. The median house has about three bathrooms and a single water heater or a pair, a gas line to the kitchen, water heater and furnace, and a sewer lateral that has now been in clay soil for close to three decades. Those details shape the advice on the rest of this page.

The golf course, the creek and the floods

No honest guide to Longwood Village skips the flooding. Little Cypress Creek runs through the golf course, and a golf trade publication described the course after Hurricane Harvey as a “giant retention pond for the subdivision.” The same article reported that the clubhouse flooded to nearly 3 feet during Harvey, and that Harvey was the club’s fourth flood in 17 months.

Community Impact reported that more than 100 Longwood Village homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Harvey brought 39.11 inches of rain to Bush Intercontinental in August 2017. Before that, a 2016 flood had already led Triumph Golf to approach the Harris County Flood Control District about selling part of the club, according to the district’s own project page.

What the flood control district did

1. The proposal

   In 2021, Community Impact reported that the flood control district proposed a project at Longwood Golf Club under its Little Cypress Creek Frontier Program, funded through the $2.5 billion bond program voters passed in August 2018. Officials said it would lower flood risk for hundreds of Longwood Village homes and benefit more than 3,000 homes in surrounding neighborhoods.

2. Resident support

   A 2020 district survey found 75% of Longwood Village residents supported the district buying nine holes of the course for flood mitigation, according to Community Impact.

3. The purchase

   In spring 2023, the club’s general manager told members the district was buying about 80 acres of the course to store stormwater and widen Little Cypress Creek. He said district models projected flood levels in the community would drop by almost 10 feet. Golf operations paused in April 2023.

4. The reopening

   Community Impact reported in December 2023 that the renovated course was set to reopen in late December, open only to members for its first four to five months. Golf directories now list an 18-hole layout called The Golf Club at Longwood.

Why this belongs on a plumbing page: a home that took on water in 2016 or 2017 may have had its lower walls, water heater, and sometimes its supply lines or fixtures replaced in a hurry. Rebuild quality varied. Some homes got careful, permitted work. Others got quick fixes during a time when every plumber in Houston was booked for months. The next section explains what to look for.

Plumbing in homes that were rebuilt after a flood

When floodwater sits in a house, plumbers usually see the same chain of events. The water heater in the garage gets submerged and is replaced. Wet drywall comes out to about four feet, which exposes supply lines and drains inside the walls. Toilets and vanities come out and go back in. The sewer line may have backed up because the whole area’s system was overwhelmed. Every one of those steps is a chance for a good repair or a shortcut.

If you own a home that flooded, none of this means something is wrong today. It means the house has a second layer of history on top of its 1990s original plumbing, and an inspection should account for both.

Homes and plumbing by era in Longwood Village

Longwood Village was built in sections starting in 1995, with a median build year of 1997. That places it at the end of one plumbing era and the start of another. These are general Cypress patterns, not a guarantee about any single house.

About polybutylene

Polybutylene is a gray plastic supply pipe, often stamped PB2110, that shows up in some Cypress homes from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. Longwood Village’s earliest sections were built at the end of that window. You can often spot it where the supply line comes out of the wall at a toilet or under a sink, or at the water heater. If you find it, have a licensed plumber look at its condition and talk through repiping options. Many buyers and insurers ask about it.

Copper under the slab

Many 1990s Cypress homes run copper supply lines under the slab. Cypress sits in the expansive gumbo clay belt, which swells when wet and shrinks in drought. That movement shifts the slab, which stresses the pipes in it. After almost 30 years of wet and dry cycles, pinhole leaks and stressed joints become more common. A warm spot on the floor, a hissing sound or a meter that keeps moving are the classic signs. See slab leak repair for how we fix them.

Shutoff valves that no longer turn

A 1997 house still has many of its original angle stops under sinks and toilets. After decades of hard water, those valves often seize or leak when someone finally tries to close them. We often suggest replacing them during any other visit so you can shut off a single fixture in an emergency.

Common plumbing calls in Longwood Village

These are the problems that show up most in 1990s golf course neighborhoods in Cypress. Each one ties back to the age of the house, the soil, the trees or the creek.

One pattern is specific to golf course lots. Homes backing onto a fairway often have irrigation systems sized for a deep backyard and a view the owner wants to keep green. A broken sprinkler line on that side of the house can leak for weeks into a yard that already looks wet, so the water bill is the only warning. Our leak detection service tracks irrigation and yard line leaks as well as slab leaks.

Longwood Village and the history of the Telge and Spring Cypress area

The roads around Longwood Village carry the area’s history. German families including the Hoffmeister and Telge families arrived around Cypress in the late 1840s, and Telge Road still bears the name. The Burnett and Simmons families settled even earlier, in 1831, and Matthew Burnett ran a tavern and inn at the Cypress Creek crossing by 1840. Rails reached the Cypress Top depot in July 1856, and the railroad town that grew there is preserved today in Cypress Top Historic Park.

For most of the 20th century this part of 77429 was open farm and ranch land. Fairbanks was founded in 1893, and the Fairbanks and Cypress school districts consolidated in 1939. Suburban building reached the Spring Cypress corridor in the 1990s, and Longwood Village was established in 1995 around its new golf course.

That history matters for plumbing in a practical way. Longwood Village was built around a working creek. Little Cypress Creek runs through the golf course, and it still sets the rules, which is why the flood control district’s work on the golf course is such a big part of the neighborhood’s recent story.

Getting around: roads and commute from Longwood Village

Longwood Village sits along Spring Cypress Road near Louetta, with Highway 249 a few minutes away according to a local agent’s guide. That location gives residents a choice: head east to SH 249 for trips north toward Tomball or south toward Beltway 8, or head south on Telge to reach US-290. The Grand Parkway, SH 99, opened through Cypress in December 2013 and is a toll road.

Times are approximate off-peak figures measured from US-290 and Barker Cypress. Longwood Village is east of that point, so actual times vary by route.

For plumbing calls, Longwood Village is close to our office at 13333 Telge Rd Ste 310. We answer 24/7, so a burst hose bib at 2 a.m. or a water heater leak on a holiday morning gets a live person on the phone.

Life in Longwood Village: amenities and nearby places

A local agent’s guide describes Longwood Village as a family-oriented green space community, with hiking and biking trails, the golf course, 3 parks, 4 tennis courts, 2 covered gazebos, a pavilion, a pond and 2 pools. A 2022 HAR.com reviewer summed it up as a golf course community with pools, tennis courts and shady trails.

Longwood Village has a homeowners association. Community Impact’s coverage of the golf course negotiations describes the Longwood Village Homeowners Association’s role in the course’s deed restrictions. If your plumbing job involves digging in the yard, such as a sewer lateral replacement or a gas line to a backyard grill, we plan the route around HOA rules and restore the surface as closely as we can.

Utilities in Longwood Village and who to call

Like most of Cypress, Longwood Village gets water and sewer from a Municipal Utility District. HAR.com and Community Impact both list Harris County MUD 360 on the neighborhood’s tax roll. The MUD owns the meter and the street side. The homeowner owns everything from the meter to the fixtures: the yard line, the pipes in the slab, the water heater and the sewer lateral up to the district’s main.

The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District, created in 1975, requires the regional water authorities that serve northwest Harris County to shift from groundwater to surface water, with targets of 60% by 2025 and 80% by 2035. That is why a regional water authority fee may appear on your MUD bill alongside the district’s own charges.

Buyer and seller checklist for Longwood Village

A 1990s home with a possible flood history deserves more than a standard inspection. Here is what we suggest for each side of a Longwood Village sale, and for landlords preparing a rental.

For buyers

• Ask in writing whether the house has flooded, and check the lot on hcfcd.org.
• Look for gray polybutylene supply pipe at toilets, sinks and the water heater.
• Read the water heater date code. Plan for replacement if it is past 10 years.
• Order a sewer camera inspection, especially with big trees in the front yard.
• Run the two minute meter test from our homepage seasonal guide with all water off.
• Ask for permits and receipts for any post-flood plumbing or water heater work.
• Try every shutoff valve under sinks and toilets to see if it closes.

For sellers

• Gather flood repair records, permits and any slab leak or repipe invoices.
• Replace seized angle stops and worn supply hoses before the inspection.
• Fix running toilets and slow drains, which inspectors flag every time.
• Have the water heater checked for a drain pan, expansion tank and proper T&P discharge where required.

Red flags to call about right away

• Water heater rust or puddles at the base
• Gray PB2110 pipe with stains or drips at fittings
• Warm floor spots or a meter that never stops
• Sewer smell or gurgling after heavy rain

Plumbing cost references for Longwood Village owners

Every quote we give is written and given before work starts. We do not publish our own prices, because a 1997 house with original copper and a 2017 rebuild with PEX need different work. These outside figures show typical ranges.

The slab leak source also notes that many insurance policies cover resulting water damage but not the pipe repair. Root-filled sewer lines may need hydro jetting rather than a simple cable, and the camera footage tells us which. For more cost context, see our homepage cost guide.

Before you hire anyone, look up the license at tsbpe.texas.gov. Every Texas plumbing company must operate under a Responsible Master Plumber, and the board’s search is free.

Questions Longwood Village homeowners ask about plumbing

Related plumbing services in Cypress

Neighborhood guides: plumbing in Rock Creek, plumbing in Ravensway, plumbing in Cypress Mill.