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A new fence in West Hollywood typically runs $3,500 to $9,000 depending on material, linear footage, and what’s hiding underground. Most residential installs take two to four days once the permit clears. We schedule free estimates within 48 hours for West Hollywood homeowners, and Tom Barrett or one of his sons walks every job before a quote goes out. Call (877) 610-1318 and a live person answers, day or night.
West Hollywood isn’t a suburb. It’s its own city with its own building department, its own plan-check queue, and its own inspectors. That changes how fences get permitted, inspected, and built here. A crew that’s never pulled a WeHo fence permit will learn the hard way. We’ve been doing it long enough to know the people behind the counter and what they look for before they sign off.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is West Hollywood’s Preferred Fence Installation Company
Tom Barrett founded the company in 1998 and put his name on the truck. His sons run crews, not strangers dispatched from a call center. Every price change arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is printed on every contract: if it’s not right, Tom comes back. One call.
West Hollywood homeowners deal with a permitting universe that’s separate from Los Angeles, and we’ve built a working relationship with the city’s plan-check staff over the years. That matters when your fence line runs along a shared dingbat property boundary and the RSO tenant-notification rules kick in. We know which forms get filed where and who reviews them. Inspectors sign off because the work meets the city’s standard, not because it squeaked by.
Tom publishes his name, his address, and his license number. Look it up before you sign anything. Then ask your neighbors on Fairfax or Gardner if they’ve seen the Barrett & Sons crew around. We’re not a franchise. We’re a family company that shows up in uniform, background-checked, and answers the phone ourselves. The 90-Day Done Right Promise isn’t a marketing line. It’s the reason half our West Hollywood fence jobs come from referrals.
Our Fence Installation Services in West Hollywood
We install and repair every common fence type in West Hollywood, sized to the property and built for the clay. Here’s what we do most often in 90069.
Vinyl Fence
Vinyl is the workhorse for West Hollywood courtyard and dingbat properties: it won’t rot, termites ignore it, and it shrugs off the long dry season without warping. On hillside-adjacent lots off Fairfax Avenue north of Santa Monica Boulevard, our crew installs vinyl privacy fence with post holes deepened to 30 inches and gravel drainage at each base. That’s not standard practice elsewhere. It’s standard for us here because the clay demands it.
Aluminum Fence
Aluminum suits West Hollywood’s smaller front setbacks and mixed-use edges. It’s lighter than iron, so it doesn’t stress retaining walls the way a heavy steel run can on a sloped lot. We order panels cut to the linear foot, powder-coated, and we set posts in concrete that’s mixed for expansive soil. Gates hang clean and stay square because the posts don’t wander.
Fence Gates
Gates fail first on West Hollywood properties. Heat and clay movement push posts out of plumb, then the latch doesn’t line up and the gate drags. We build gate frames from heavier stock than the adjacent panel line and drop a deeper concrete pier at each hinge post. If a tenant has to shoulder a gate open every morning, we hear about it. We build gates that open one-handed a year after install.
Wood Fence
Wood fence still has its place in West Hollywood, especially on the 1920s and 1930s courtyard bungalow complexes along the old streetcar corridors. We use ground-contact treated posts, set on gravel, with kiln-dried pickets. For properties near the northern hillside lots, we recommend pressure-treated frames under cedar or redwood facing. It keeps the look and holds off the soil moisture that climbs up end grain.
We also handle chain link, iron fence, privacy fence, fence repair, and commercial fencing across West Hollywood. Same crew, same written pricing rules, same promise.
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 West Hollywood
We install brands you can look up, not mystery material off a van. For vinyl and aluminum fence systems, we work with manufacturers whose specs we can hand you on request. Where fence work ties into outdoor hardscape, we carry Belgard and Techo-Bloc product lines. We stock common post caps, gate hardware, and pickets locally so a repair on a West Hollywood rental property doesn’t wait two weeks on a freight truck. You’ll see the brand name on the contract before we dig the first hole.
Common Fence Installation Problems We See in West Hollywood Homes
West Hollywood’s housing stock is specific, and so are the fence failures. Here’s what we find repeatedly.
- Posts heaving out of alignment. The expansive clay contracts hard through the rainless summer, then swells when winter rains return. Shallow posts set in a bag of quick-set mix tilt within a year. Gates bind, panels crack, and the fence line looks like a wave. We set posts deeper, with gravel drainage, and we size the concrete for the soil, not the fence display at the hardware store.
- Footings placed over tuck-under parking beams. On dingbat apartment buildings, the space under the building is often the parking level. A new fence line that crosses that beam puts new footings where the soft-story retrofit program is watching closely. We check the retrofit status before we quote, so a fence doesn’t trigger an expensive change order after digging starts.
- Tenant-notification stalls at final inspection. Fence work along a shared property line in a rent-controlled multi-unit building triggers RSO neighbor-notification steps. They’re not optional. Skip them and the inspector holds the sign-off. We file the notices as part of the permit package, not as an afterthought.
- Wind loading on open hillside lots. Northern West Hollywood lots at the foot of the hills take real wind. A solid privacy fence becomes a sail if the posts aren’t deep enough or the panels aren’t gapped. We space and deepen posts according to wind exposure, not just property line.
Pricing for Fence Installation in West Hollywood, FL
West Hollywood fence pricing runs on linear footage, material, post depth, and permitting. A typical vinyl privacy fence on a West Hollywood lot runs $3,500 to $9,000. Aluminum fence on a smaller front setback or mixed-use edge runs $4,000 to $10,000. The West Hollywood permit fee, plan-check time, and any tenant-notification requirements are separate line items on the written quote. Nothing is rounded into a guess.
| Fence Type | Typical West 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 feet, gate count, hillside access, clay depth at your lot, and whether the property falls inside the soft-story retrofit zone with tenant-notification obligations. We quote in writing, line by line. Changes come as written change orders. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate and an honest number, not a phone guess.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hollywood
We serve Fence Installation in West Hollywood and the surrounding communities, including Hollywood, Andover, Miramar, and West Park. Scheduling runs out of our Miami, South FL office, and crews work locally across the West Hollywood service area. If you’re a few blocks over the city line, the same estimate process applies.
Serving West Hollywood, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West 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 West Hollywood
West Hollywood is an independent city with its own building department, plan-check queue, and inspectors. A fence that needs no permit in an unincorporated LA County pocket often needs a WeHo permit, especially around multi-unit dingbat properties. We pull permits through the city’s own process, not LADBS. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll tell you if your fence line triggers one before you spend a dollar.
The expansive clay shrinks through the dry months and heaves when winter rain soaks in. Posts set at 18 inches with fast-set concrete will tilt. We dig to 30 inches on most West Hollywood lots, add gravel at the base, and mix concrete for expansive soil. The post stays where we put it. That’s the difference between a fence that lasts five years and one that lasts twenty.
Yes, but the fence line has to be planned around the building’s seismic constraints. New footings can’t sit directly over the tuck-under parking beam without complicating the retrofit. We review the retrofit status before quoting and adjust the fence line or footing design so the fence doesn’t add shear stress where the building is weakest. It’s a plan-check conversation most fence crews never have.
Yes, in most cases. Fence work along shared property lines in a West Hollywood multi-unit building triggers tenant-notification rules under the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. We file the notices with the permit package. It’s paperwork, but it’s the paperwork that gets the final inspection signed instead of stalled. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk you through which notices apply to your building.
Vinyl and aluminum outlast wood on West Hollywood’s expansive clay, because neither absorbs the soil moisture that rots wood and neither is as heavy as iron when wind loads hit hillside exposures. We recommend vinyl privacy fence for most courtyard and dingbat properties, and aluminum for smaller front setbacks and mixed-use edges. Both cost more up front than a wood fence and both last longer. Ask for the written material comparison at your free estimate.
If you’re looking for a fence company in West Hollywood that pulls its own permits, writes its own change orders, and stands behind the work in writing, call Barrett & Sons Construction at (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate. Tom Barrett answers his own phone, and someone will be at your West Hollywood property within 48 hours to measure, listen, and give you a real number.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving West Hollywood and the surrounding communities since 1998.