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Fence installation in Temple City typically runs $3,500 to $9,000 for a standard vinyl privacy fence, and most jobs take two to five working days once materials arrive. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and we’ve been building fences in the San Gabriel Valley since 1998. Tom Barrett and his sons run the crews themselves. If you live in Temple City and you’re pricing a new fence, call (877) 610-1318 and you’ll get a straight answer from a real person, not a call center.
Here’s what matters most: Temple City isn’t like Arcadia or San Gabriel when it comes to ground conditions. The clay under your yard moves. If a crew sets posts without knowing that, you’ll have a sagging fence line within two winters. We know it because we’ve fixed it. This page tells you exactly what we do differently, what it costs, and why the way a fence is engineered here has to start with the soil, not just the pickets.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Temple City’s Preferred Fence Installation Company
We’ve worked in the 91780 ZIP long enough to know which lots still have the original 1950s survey pins and which ones don’t. That matters when your fence line runs along a neighbor’s 7,000 square foot parcel and the last thing anyone needs is a permit dispute over eighteen inches of encroachment. Tom Barrett publishes his name, his address, and his license number. You can look it up before you sign anything, and plenty of Temple City homeowners do.
Our crews are background-checked and uniformed, and they carry the Barrett & Sons name because they answer to it. When a Temple City customer calls about a gate that’s binding after the first winter rains, one call brings Tom back. That’s the 90-Day Done Right Promise, written on every contract, not buried in fine print. We don’t subcontract fence work to a different crew every week. The same faces show up from day one to punch-out.
We answer the phone 24 hours a day. Not a voicemail box, not an out-of-state call center. A live person. When you call about fence installation in Temple City, you’re talking to someone who knows what a feng shui door alignment is and why it changes where your gate goes.
Our Fence Installation Services in Temple City
We handle the full range of Fence Installation work, but in Temple City three jobs keep coming up: privacy fences, aluminum fences, and custom gates. Here’s how each one works here, on the ground in the 91780.
Wood Fence
A cedar board-on-board privacy fence on a Temple City lot with expansive clay needs more than a post hole auger. We dig below the active soil zone, bell the bottom of the footing, and set posts in concrete rated for expansive soils. That’s the difference between a fence that’s plumb in year one and a fence that’s heaving at the corners by year three. Most Temple City wood privacy fences run six to eight feet, and we recommend cedar over pine for the San Gabriel Valley’s summer heat and Santa Ana dry spells.
Chain Link Fence
Chain link is the value option, and there’s nothing wrong with that when the spec calls for it. But on Temple City’s 1950s-era lots, we still drill below the root zone and set schedule 40 posts in concrete, not just tamped earth. A chain link fence that looks straight after installation but leans after one wet season is a footing problem, not a materials problem. For teardown properties where the old fence comes down with the house, temporary chain link is a practical option while the new build goes up.
Vinyl Fence
Vinyl privacy fencing is popular in Temple City because it holds up to summer heat without fading the way cheaper composite products do. A typical vinyl fence installation in Temple City runs $3,500 to $9,000 depending on linear feet, gate count, and whether the old fence has to come out first. We stock white and tan vinyl locally for Temple City customers, so lead times stay short. The posts still need engineered footings. Vinyl doesn’t forgive a shallow hole in clay.
Aluminum Fence
Temple City’s 100°F summer days will warp lighter-gauge metal fencing inside two seasons. That’s why we spec powder-coated aluminum, not the thin galvanized product you’ll see at the big box stores. Aluminum fence installation in Temple City runs $4,000 to $10,000 depending on style, height, and gate hardware. For custom homes in the teardown rebuild wave, a black aluminum fence with a matching gate reads clean against a stucco exterior and doesn’t block the sightlines buyers pay for.
Privacy Fence
Privacy is the default request in Temple City, and for good reason. The original ranch homes sit close together, and when a two-story custom replaces the house next door, suddenly your backyard is visible from their second-floor windows. A six-foot privacy fence with tight board spacing solves that. We also do privacy screening on top of block walls when zoning keeps the fence height capped. And where grading slopes across a lot, we step the panels down rather than leaving gaps at the bottom.
Fence Gates
A gate is where a fence job fails first. In Temple City’s clay, the gate posts move independently if they’re not tied into a continuous footer with the rest of the fence line. We hang gates on posts set in concrete, with adjustable hinges and a third hinge on anything over five feet. On custom homes where the front entry alignment is set by feng shui requirements, we coordinate the gate placement with the architect before rough-in inspection, because moving a gate after the fact is a change order nobody wants.
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Trusted Brands We Service in Temple City
We don’t install mystery materials off a van. On fence jobs in Temple City we use powder-coated aluminum from manufacturers you can look up, cedar from suppliers that grade for outdoor use in Southern California, and hardware from brands we’ve trusted for years. When the scope touches other parts of the home, we carry the same premium brands we use across every trade: GAF on roofing that meets LA County fire code for Santa Ana season, and Schluter in bathrooms when a teardown rebuild includes an ADU with a wet space. The point is straightforward: we stock local parts for Temple City customers, and we don’t make you wait on a shipment from three states away when a gate hinge needs replacing.
Common Fence Installation Problems We See in Temple City Homes
- Posts heaving out of plumb after the first wet winter. Temple City sits on expansive clay that shrinks in summer and swells in winter. Posts set in native clay without engineered footings will heave, and then your gate binds and the fence line sags. We dig below the active zone and set posts in concrete rated for that soil.
- Lighter-gauge metal fences warping in summer heat. Temple City regularly hits 95 to 105°F in summer. Standard galvanized posts and thin-gauge aluminum panels warp under that kind of sustained heat. We spec thicker schedule 40 steel or powder-coated aluminum so the fence still looks right in year three.
- Encroachment on original 1950s lot lines. A lot of Temple City fence work happens on teardown properties where the original survey pins are missing or buried. If you build a fence six inches over the line, your neighbor’s 7,000 square foot lot just got smaller, and now there’s a permit dispute stalling the whole project. We survey before we dig.
- Feng shui conflicts with the front entry. On custom rebuilds in Temple City, buyers frequently require that no visual element collide with the front door alignment. A six-foot privacy fence planned for the wrong side of the entry can force a late-stage redesign. We scope the fence line with those requirements in hand from day one.
Pricing for Fence Installation in Temple City, CA
You should know what a fence actually costs before you sign. In Temple City, vinyl fence installation runs $3,500 to $9,000, and aluminum fence installation runs $4,000 to $10,000. Wood privacy fences land in a similar range, depending on whether we’re removing an old fence, how many gates are involved, and whether the ground conditions require deeper footings. Here’s the breakdown:
| Fence Type | Typical Temple City Price Range |
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| Vinyl Fence Installation | $3,500 - $9,000 |
| Aluminum Fence Installation | $4,000 - $10,000 |
Those numbers assume a standard residential lot of roughly 100 to 180 linear feet. Steeper grades, block wall tear-outs, or custom gate hardware push the price up, and we’ll tell you that before you commit. Every scope, every allowance, every price change arrives as a written change order before work happens. No surprise invoices at the end. That’s how we’ve done it since 1998, and it’s why Temple City homeowners keep calling back.
We Also Serve Cities Near Temple City
While this page is written for Temple City homeowners, our crews also work regularly in Rosemead, San Gabriel, Arcadia, and East San Gabriel. The soil conditions shift once you get into Arcadia’s sandier lots, which is exactly why local knowledge matters. For details on our broader service area, see Temple City and the surrounding communities we cover.
Serving Temple City, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Temple City 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 Temple City
Yes. On a teardown-rebuild project, the fence is usually folded into the overall building permit rather than pulled separately, and the city wants the fence line shown on the site plan. We handle that coordination. If you’re replacing an existing fence on an older home with no active construction, the rules depend on height and location, and we’ll tell you exactly what applies to your street before we dig. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk you through it.
We dig below the active soil zone, bell the bottom of the hole, and set posts in concrete rated for expansive soils. In Temple City’s clay, a straight-sided hole backfilled with native dirt will heave the post out of plumb within two winters. The deeper footing and the belled base are what keep the fence line straight. This is not the cheap way to set a post, but it’s the only way that holds here.
The first thing we do is order a survey and locate the original lot pins. On most 1950s ranch lots in the 91780, the pins are buried or gone entirely, and building a fence on a guess is how you end up encroaching on a neighbor’s 7,000 square foot parcel and triggering a permit dispute. We survey before we dig. If the pins can’t be recovered, we work with the surveyor and the city to establish the line on paper before a single post goes in.
Yes, and we’ve done it. On a teardown-rebuild in the 91780, our crew was called after the general contractor realized the new custom home’s feng shui-approved front entry alignment would be compromised by a planned six-foot privacy fence visually colliding with the front door. We re-scoped the fence line, set new posts with deeper footings to handle the clay, and shifted the gate placement in coordination with the architect, all before rough-in inspection. The final walkthrough had no change order for fence work. If you’re building a custom home in Temple City and the fence has to respect door alignment or staircase placement rules, bring us in early. It’s cheaper than a redesign later.
Yes. Temple City sits in a Santa Ana wind corridor, and fall wind events raise fire-risk concerns that influence exterior material choices under LA County fire codes. We spec powder-coated aluminum fence systems that meet the applicable requirements, and we coordinate fence placement so it doesn’t create a fire-access problem on the property. If your HOA or architect has specific specs for wind season hardening, we’ll match them and put it in writing.
Get a Free Estimate for Fence Installation in Temple City
If you live in Temple City and you’re ready to price a new fence, call (877) 610-1318 to schedule a free estimate. Tom Barrett or one of his sons will come out, look at the ground, look at the lot lines, and give you a written line-item quote. No change orders you didn’t sign. No materials you didn’t approve. And if you have a written estimate from another contractor, bring it in. We’ll give you a free second opinion. You can also ask about the $40 off any repair over $200 and the permanent 10% senior and veteran discount. A live person answers the phone 24/7. Call (877) 610-1318 today.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Temple City since 1998.