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Fast, Reliable Fence Installation Across Grapevine

If you’re pricing a new fence in Grapevine, here’s the straight answer up front: a typical wood privacy fence runs $3,500 to $9,000 depending on linear footage, material, and what’s hiding in your soil. Barrett & Sons Construction has been building and repairing fences across Grapevine since 1998, and we’re the crew other Grapevine homeowners call when a national outfit hands them a number that doesn’t match the contract. Tom Barrett and his sons are on-site most days, not a rotating cast from an out-of-state call center. Call (877) 610-1318 and a live person answers, day or night.

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Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Grapevine’s Preferred Fence Installation Company

Grapevine isn’t just another stop on our route. It’s where we buy lumber at the same supply yards you do, where we’ve watched the 76051 and 76099 ZIPs fill in with two-story brick homes, and where we’ve pulled permits at City Hall enough times to know the counter staff by name. Homeowners here have dealt with contractors who say one thing on the phone and something else when the invoice lands. That’s why every fence job we quote in Grapevine comes with the scope in writing, allowances in writing, and change orders in writing before a single post goes in the ground.

Our work across Grapevine is backed by the 90-Day Done Right Promise, written on every contract. If something’s not right, Tom comes back and makes it right, one call. No fine print. No “that’s normal settling.” The permit inspector works for you, not for us, and we like it that way. On every eligible fence job in Grapevine, permits get pulled and inspections get signed. Ask anyone on your street, or look up Tom’s license number yourself before you sign anything.

Our Fence Installation Services in Grapevine

We build and repair every common fence type you’ll see from Historic Main Street out to the neighborhoods along Dove Loop Road. Here’s what we handle most often in Grapevine. For the full picture on materials and methods, see our Fence Installation page.

Wood Fence

Cedar privacy fences are the standard in Grapevine’s 1980s and 1990s subdivisions, and for good reason. Cedar stands up to Texas heat better than pine, but only if the posts are set right. In Grapevine’s expansive Blackland Prairie clay, a post set in a shallow concrete ball will heave within two freeze-thaw winters. We pour footings below the active clay zone and use pressure-treated 4x4s with steel post anchors. Your neighbor’s leaning fence on Fairway Drive? That’s what shallow concrete looks like after three years.

Privacy Fence

A privacy fence in Grapevine does real work. It blocks the view from the street, it keeps kids and dogs in, and it gives you a backyard you’ll actually use in May and September when the weather turns. But near the DFW flight corridors, height matters in ways it doesn’t in Keller or Euless. We’ll check FAA Part 77 overlays before we quote a 6-foot or 8-foot fence so you don’t get a stop-work order after the holes are dug.

Fence Gates

Gates are where fence jobs go wrong. A single gate post on Grapevine clay with an undersized footing will sag under its own weight by the first summer, and then the latch stops lining up and you’re kicking it open with your knee. We set gate posts on deeper, wider footings than the line posts, and for heavy gates we use steel post anchors and adjustable hinges. If the gate’s going to get daily use, we’ll often recommend an aluminum frame with a wood infill so it doesn’t rack out of square.

Vinyl Fence

Vinyl’s the right call for Grapevine homeowners who don’t want to stain every three years. It handles the wet-dry cycle of our clay soils fine, but it needs a rigid post system. Vinyl posts set in concrete that stops at the clay line will heave just like wood. We run the same deep-footing approach on vinyl and aluminum as we do on cedar. A white vinyl privacy fence on a corner lot near Parr Park looks sharp and holds up to the summer sun without fading the way cheaper off-brand vinyl does.

Trusted Brands We Service in Grapevine

We install and repair fencing systems built around materials you can look up, not mystery stock off a van. For aluminum and steel fence lines in Grapevine, we regularly work with Ply Gem rail systems and PGT aluminum gate frames. For vinyl, Simonton extrusion profiles hold their color better than generic white panels that chalk out after five summers. When a Grapevine customer needs parts fast, we source through local DFW suppliers, not an out-of-state warehouse, so a broken gate hinge or a missing rail cap doesn’t sit on backorder for two weeks.

Common Fence Installation Problems We See in Grapevine Homes

• Heaving posts from shallow concrete. Grapevine’s Blackland Prairie clay swells and shrinks with every wet-dry cycle. A post set in a 2-foot concrete ball moves. We see it constantly on 1990s-era fences along neighborhoods off Hall-Johnson Road, where the original builder nailed posts into whatever the grading crew left.
• FAA Part 77 height conflicts. A 6-foot cedar privacy fence near the SH 114 approach or under DFW’s airspace overlays can trigger an aeronautical study or a height variance. Out-of-town GCs miss this all the time. We file the study before the first post hole, so the fence doesn’t end up half-built with a stop-work order taped to it.
• Gate posts with undersized footings. Clay soil plus a heavy wood gate plus a shallow footing equals a gate that drags by August. We pour gate post footings deeper and wider than line posts, every time, on every Grapevine job.
• Rot at the hinge mortise. On older Grapevine wood fences, the hinge mortise is where water collects and decay starts. By the time a gate sags, the post is usually compromised below grade too. We replace the post, not just the hinge.

Pricing for Fence Installation in Grapevine, TX

A Local Angle Most Contractors Miss

Grapevine sits directly adjacent to DFW International Airport, and that changes fence work in ways you won’t hear about from a national fence company. Properties near the SH 114 approach or within the city’s FAA Part 77 airspace overlays are subject to enforceable height limits. A 6-foot privacy fence that would sail through permitting in Keller can trigger an aeronautical study here. We check that before we quote, and if a filing is required, we handle it before the first post hole gets dug. That’s the difference between a fence that goes up on schedule and one that sits half-finished with a stop-work order while you argue with an out-of-town GC about whose fault it is.

Our crew replaced a rotted 1990s wood privacy fence along Timberline Drive in the 76051 ZIP, where the clay soil had heaved three posts out of plumb and the load-bearing gate post had cracked at the hinge mortise. We pulled the permit, poured new footings below the active clay zone, installed pressure-treated 4x4s with steel post anchors, and swapped the failed gate to an aluminum frame with adjustable hinges. The change order for the extra 2 feet of concrete around the gate post was written and signed by the homeowner before we dug.

This page tells you exactly how FAA Part 77 overlays, DFW noise-contour setbacks, and Grapevine’s expansive clay affect fence height, footing design, and permitting. Before you buy the first cedar board, know what you’re up against. Or just call us and we’ll walk it with you.

We Also Serve Cities Near Grapevine

Our crews work across the Grapevine area and into Grapevine neighboring Tarrant and Dallas County communities. We regularly build and repair fences in Southlake, Colleyville, Coppell, and Euless. If you’re just outside city limits, call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll confirm coverage and schedule a free estimate. No trip charge inside the county.

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