Fence Company in Allen, TX

Allen sits directly north of Plano, and a lot of Allen families moved up from there. That’s the first thing a fence company in Allen, TX has to get right. The two cities don’t share a fence code. Allen wrote its own, and in places it asks for more.

This is core service area for us, not the far edge of a map. Nearly every job we take here is a re-fence. Old fence out, hauled off, new one built.

Allen sets specific rules for post material, depth, and spacing. We exceed every one of them. The details are below, under "Allen Sets a Floor for Fence Posts."

A kicker board runs along the bottom of every fence we build. Wood never sits on dirt.

You hear from us at least once a week, including while your job is still in the queue.

Every yard we fence in Allen sits on the same Collin County clay our own shop does.

Allen goes further than most cities and says what the fence has to be built out of. So there’s a published floor here, and then there’s what we put in the ground.

Allen’s acceptable fence materials are brick, wood, and wrought iron. Anything else needs the Building Official’s approval.

Metal posts, metal caps, and metal hardware are required on every fence, whatever the face material is.

Our posts are heavy duty galvanized steel, set in concrete and coated so they won’t rust.

Our posts go 3 feet into the ground, and up to 4 feet where the lot allows. That’s deeper than Allen asks for.

We order posts 3 feet longer than the fence. An 8 foot fence takes a 12 foot post.

Posts sit 6 feet apart, not the 8 foot industry standard. That one is purely structural.

Allen publishes all of this in the City of Allen Residential Fence Guideline, the city’s own handout for homeowners. We check the current version against your lot before we quote.

One thing worth knowing before you compare quotes. Two quotes that both say “steel posts” aren’t necessarily quotes for the same fence. Most Allen jobs are a full tear-out and rebuild, so every post detail gets set on day one.

Allen’s Building and Permitting Division is the authority on whether your fence needs a permit. Applications go through the city’s online Citizen Self Service portal. Before any of that, though, go to your HOA.

Allen’s own fence guideline says it in capital letters: check with your homeowners association before applying to the city. HOA approval and city approval are two different things. One doesn’t stand in for the other.

Many Allen associations regulate stain color, materials, and which way the finished side faces. It’s one reason cedar that arrives already stained on every face clears a review committee more easily.

We confirm the current requirement for your specific address before the job starts. Guessing from a rule that applies one city over is how people end up redoing work.

Roughly 58 percent of Allen’s housing went up in one twenty year window, from the early 1990s through the 2000s. The median Allen home was built in 2002.

Here’s why that shows up in your yard. Those neighborhoods were fenced at build-out, all at once, by the builder. So they wear out at once too. If three neighbors re-fenced last spring, that isn’t a coincidence. It’s a build date.

Blackland Prairie clay is the other half of it. This ground swells when it’s wet and shrinks when it’s dry, and it moves a lot. Allen homeowners already know that clay from foundation work. Almost nobody connects it to fence posts.

A shallow post gets pushed and pulled every season until it loosens. Then the first hard wind takes the fence over. In May 2024, winds to 80 mph crossed Collin County. The fences already loose at the posts were the ones that came down.