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Fence installation in Hollywood typically runs $3,500 to $9,000 for a standard vinyl privacy fence, with wood fences landing in a similar range and aluminum running $4,000 to $10,000. Most Hollywood projects take 3 to 7 days once permits clear. What separates one bid from another here isn’t the lumber price. It’s whether the contractor knows how to work a tight Hollywood lot without triggering a stop-work complaint from a neighbor, a citation from the city, or a weeks-long stall in historic review. That’s where we come in. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk your property line with you before we quote a number.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Hollywood’s Preferred Fence Installation Company
Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and he still puts his name, address, and license number on every contract. You can look it up before you sign anything. Most of our Hollywood work comes from referrals up and down streets like Fountain, Wilcox, and McCadden Place, where neighbors watch us frame a fence and then ask who we are. That’s not marketing. It’s how owner-operated companies stay alive for 29 years.
We answer our own phone, 24/7. When you call about a fence in the 90028 ZIP, you get a live person. Not a voicemail box in another state. Tom’s sons run the Hollywood crews, and they know what a tuck-under parking garage access issue looks like before the materials truck shows up. That kind of local judgment matters when your side street is fifteen feet wide and a film production has a permit to hold the alley for the afternoon. We plan around it. We don’t act surprised.
Every estimate is free, and every price change is a written change order issued before work proceeds. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every contract: if it’s not done right, Tom comes back. One call.
Our Fence Installation Services in Hollywood
Wood Fence
Wood fences dominate the landscape around Hollywood’s Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Colonial Revival courtyard apartments. Redwood and cedar hold up well in our dry climate, but the bigger issue on a tight lot is sightline. A six-foot board-on-board privacy fence gives you privacy without making your neighbor’s courtyard feel like a cell. We frame posts to code and set them in concrete below grade. On historic properties, we match the existing style so the Office of Historic Resources doesn’t kick the permit back for visual conflict.
Chain Link Fence
Chain link is the workhorse fence for Hollywood Hills side yards and flatland rental properties where budget matters more than privacy. It’s quick to install, it handles hillside grade changes well, and it doesn’t block light into narrow courtyard spaces. We install galvanized and vinyl-coated chain link with tension wire at the bottom so dogs can’t nose under it. If you’re securing a tuck-under parking area off a Hollywood side street, chain link with a gate gets the job done for a fraction of the privacy-fence price.
Vinyl Fence
Vinyl fence installation in Hollywood runs $3,500 to $9,000 for a typical residential lot. It never needs paint, it won’t warp in the dry heat we get off the Santa Monica Mountains, and it handles the occasional sprinkler overspray from a hillside irrigation system without rotting. The catch: vinyl panels need more clearance for staging than wood boards, which matters when your frontage is six feet wide and the neighbor’s gate opens onto your side yard. We plan the panel deliveries around parking and access.
Aluminum Fence
Aluminum fence installation in Hollywood runs $4,000 to $10,000 depending on panel height and gate hardware. You see a lot of aluminum around Hollywood’s 1920s and 1930s apartment buildings because it reads as more formal than chain link and doesn’t rust the way wrought-iron lookalikes can after a few years of coastal air push. It’s also lighter to stage on a hillside grade without a loader. We install Simonton and Ply Gem aluminum fence systems when the design calls for a polished, low-maintenance perimeter.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hollywood
We stock and install vinyl, aluminum, and composite fence systems from Ply Gem, Simonton, and PGT. These are name brands you can look up, not mystery product off a van. Because our Hollywood scheduling runs from the Los Angeles office, we coordinate material deliveries to your street before the crew arrives, so you don’t have pallets sitting on a sidewalk for three days while the historic review plays out. That’s a real concern on streets like Las Palmas and Cherokee in the 90028, where parking is scarce and the city will cite an obstructed right-of-way fast.
Common Fence Installation Problems We See in Hollywood Homes
- HPOZ historic review stalls a “simple” fence permit. In Hollywood’s Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, exterior alterations including some fence replacements go through the Office of Historic Resources. A fence that would get an over-the-counter permit in Koreatown can sit in plan-check for two or three weeks here. We build that timeline into the quote so you’re not stuck wondering.
- Staging materials on a narrow side street triggers a citation. Many Hollywood flatland blocks have no driveway. A materials drop that blocks a tuck-under parking garage entrance or a fire access lane gets cited fast. We schedule deliveries in tight windows and stage on-site, not on the street.
- No written party-wall notice to an adjacent courtyard complex. If your fence shares a property line with a courtyard apartment building, the owner or property manager is entitled to notice before we dig. Skipping that step is the fastest way to get a stop-work order. We handle the notice and keep a copy for the inspector.
- Hillside setbacks in the Hollywood Hills push a change order. Once you get above Sunset into the hillside streets, grading and setback rules change. Soil there can be expansive, and excavation sometimes hits rock or old retaining debris. We walk the site with a level and county setback map before quoting, so you don’t get surprised after the auger goes down.
Each of these problems is preventable. They happen when an out-of-area crew treats Hollywood like any flat suburban grid. This city is its own animal, and we’ve spent 29 years learning which fences go where.
Pricing for Fence Installation in Hollywood, CA
We don’t quote vague ranges from across a desk. Here are two of the most common Hollywood fence types with line-item pricing, so you know what you’re looking at before anyone shows up:
| Fence Type | Typical Hollywood Price Range |
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| Vinyl Fence Installation | $3,500-$9,000 |
| Aluminum Fence Installation | $4,000-$10,000 |
What moves the number: linear footage, gate hardware, hillside grade, concrete removal along the property line, and whether your property falls inside an HPOZ district that requires historic review. A flatland wood privacy fence on a standard 50-foot lot in the 90028 falls on the lower end. A hillside aluminum perimeter with two drive gates above Sunset runs higher. You’ll get a written line-item quote before any work starts. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate. No trip charge inside the county.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hollywood
Our Fence Installation crew works throughout the Hollywood area, and we handle projects in the neighborhoods right around you. If you’re in Hollywood but planning a fence on a property in Universal City, West Hollywood, Koreatown, or Echo Park, we cover those areas with the same crews and the same pricing. One call sets up estimates for multiple addresses if you own more than one property in the area.
Serving Hollywood, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hollywood area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Fence Installation in Hollywood
Not always, but often enough that we check the HPOZ map before quoting. In Hollywood’s designated historic districts, exterior alterations that are visible from the street including fence replacement in many cases trigger Office of Historic Resources design review. That can add two to three weeks to your permit timeline. We pull the HPOZ overlay map as part of the estimate, so we know before you spend a dollar. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll check your address.
Usually, but we don’t rely on it. A narrow side street in the flatland part of the 90028 with a tuck-under parking garage at the curb has very different staging rules than a hillside street with a shoulder. We schedule deliveries in short windows and keep the right-of-way clear for fire access and garage egress. If you have no driveway, the staging plan is part of your written quote. Call us and we’ll look at your street frontage before you commit.
California requires written notice to adjacent property owners before we build or replace a fence on or near a shared property line. In Hollywood, where courtyard apartment complexes share walls and side yards with single-family bungalows, this matters more than most people expect. We draft the party-wall notice, deliver it, and log the delivery date. That log goes in your permit file. It’s a small step that prevents a stop-work complaint halfway through the job. Free estimate: (877) 610-1318.
Frequently, yes. Above Sunset Boulevard, steep-slope grading rules apply, and a fence on unstable or expansive hillside soil may need a soils or grading review alongside the standard fence permit. We’ve seen simple side-yard fences turn into change orders because the ground shifted during excavation. That’s why we walk the grade and check the setback map before quoting. If the soil looks questionable, you’ll know before the hole is dug. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free site walk.
We schedule the loud work around the city’s noise ordinance windows, which in Los Angeles generally run from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, with later start times on weekends. On a dense block where a neighbor works a night film shoot and sleeps until noon, we also talk to the neighbor before the auger goes in. That conversation, plus a work-hour plan in your quote, is what keeps a fence job from getting shut down mid-dig. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll put a schedule in writing.
Permits, Historic Review, and Tight Lots: The Hollywood Reality
Most fence companies treat Hollywood like any other LA neighborhood. It isn’t. The City of Los Angeles mandatory soft-story retrofit ordinance and the Hollywood Historic Preservation Overlay Zone both shape how fences get permitted and built here. A standard property-line fence on a street like Fountain or La Mirada can sit in Office of Historic Resources design review for weeks, while the same fence in Koreatown pulls an over-the-counter permit in a day. That timeline difference is real, and it changes the cost and schedule of your project.
On a courtyard bungalow complex off Fountain Avenue, our crew set a new redwood privacy fence after the owner learned the hard way that the HPOZ triggers a historic sign-off. We handled the neighborhood notification, kept the alley clear for film trucks, and finished with a punch list walk so the property manager got their inspection sign-off before the next tenant turnover. That’s what working a constrained Hollywood site looks like. We know where the city parks its inspectors, where the film permits run, and how to keep a narrow side street clear while the post holes get dug.
One more piece of Hollywood-specific reality: our scheduling and material coordination run through the Los Angeles office, but the crews working your fence are based in and around Hollywood. We know the 90028 block patterns, the HPOZ boundaries, and the streets where a materials truck can’t idle for more than five minutes without a neighbor calling the city. That’s not a line in a brochure. It’s just how we work here.
Call Barrett & Sons Construction for a Free Hollywood Fence Estimate
If you’re planning a fence on a tight Hollywood lot, whether it’s a wood privacy fence on a bungalow side yard, a vinyl perimeter around a hillside property, or an aluminum fence around a courtyard apartment building, we’ll walk the site and give you a written line-item quote. Every scope, every allowance, every price change comes as a written change order before work happens. No surprise invoices. The permit inspector works for you, not for us, and we pull every permit that’s required.
Tom Barrett’s name, address, and license number are on the contract. Look them up. Then call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate. Ask about the 10% Senior & Veteran discount and the $40 off any repair over $200. We answer the phone.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Hollywood since 1998.