The classic Dallas backyard fence, built so it still looks classic in year eight. Western red cedar, posts set deeper than code minimum in real concrete, and a crew that works for us, not a day-labor sub.
Get a Free QuoteCedar earns its place here. It resists rot and insects without chemical treatment, it takes stain well, and it moves less than treated pine when North Texas swings from spring rain to August drought.
The failures you see around Dallas are almost never the wood. They are posts set too shallow in dirt, or panels built tight to the ground where they wick moisture. We build the opposite: deep-set posts in concrete, a gap at grade, and rails sized for the span.
Overlapped pickets, zero sightlines, and no shrinkage gaps when the cedar dries out.
The cost-effective classic. Clean, uniform, and quick to build on a straight run.
A top cap and trim board that squares the whole line and hides picket ends.
Applied after the cedar cures so it actually soaks in and holds colour.
For Dallas homeowners, cedar privacy is the default for a reason, but the black gumbo clay under most of the county is what decides whether it lasts. Soil that swells with spring rain and shrinks in the summer will lever a shallow post right out of plumb. We auger past the active clay zone, set every post in real concrete, and crown it to shed water. In Lakewood and the M Streets we match picket height and rail count to what the block already has; in newer builds out toward Lake Highlands we size gates so they still swing square after the first full season.
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The questions that come up most often once people start pricing cedar.
Convention in most Dallas neighbourhoods is that the finished side faces out, with rails and posts on your side. Some HOA covenants require it in writing. If the fence sits on a shared line, agree it with your neighbour before we build, because turning a run around afterwards means pulling every picket.
Not immediately. New cedar arrives wet and has to give up that moisture before it will hold anything. We check the wood rather than the calendar, and it is usually a matter of months, not weeks. Sealing too early is the single most common reason a fence peels the following summer.
Almost always, and it is the part worth paying for. If the pickets have gone, the posts have been in Dallas clay just as long. Re-using them buys a fence that looks new and leans on the old schedule.
Cedar shrinks as it dries. A fence built with boards laid edge to edge is tight on the day it is finished and has gaps by the second dry summer, because every board has given up a fraction of its width. That is normal timber behaviour and it is the reason board on board exists rather than being an upsell.
Privacy is the whole reason for this fence, so it is worth building the version that is still private after a few Texas summers. It is worth walking a board on board fence and a side by side fence before you decide, ideally ones that are a few years old. The difference is obvious on a weathered fence and almost invisible on a new one, which is exactly why the cheaper option is easy to sell on install day.
We walk your Dallas property, give you a straight price, and show you exactly how we build it to last.
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