Straight answers, before you call

Within one business day, every time. We are saying it plainly because we know what the complaint is in this market. Read the one and two star reviews of fence companies around Gainesville and Manassas and almost none of them are about a bad fence. They are about a homeowner who could not get a straight answer out of anybody. Clear communication is the easiest thing in this business to get right, and it is the thing we refuse to get wrong.

It depends on where you are and what you are building. If you are in a neighborhood with a homeowners association, you will almost always need covenant approval, and those rules frequently govern height, material, color, and which side the finished face points. On private property with no association, a standard residential fence generally does not require a county permit, though pool barriers and unusual heights are the common exceptions. What is always required is a utility locate ticket before anyone digs, and we file that on every single job. Tell us your address and we will tell you exactly what applies.

Yes, and in this part of Northern Virginia it comes up constantly. Neighborhoods around Gainesville, Haymarket, Bristow, and Aldie commonly restrict fence height, material, color, and style, and many require the finished side to face your neighbor. We prepare the drawings and material specifications your association needs, submit the application, and adjust the design if the architectural review committee pushes back, before anything gets built.

Aluminum is the one we recommend most often. It keeps a dog contained without walling the yard off, it holds up without any maintenance, and it looks right on almost any house in Northern Virginia. Wood is the next best answer, especially for a jumper: six feet of solid privacy fence stops most of them, partly because a dog that cannot see the squirrel has much less reason to launch. For a digger, what matters is ground level, so we run the pickets closer to grade or add a dig guard. Tell us the breed and the escape trick and we will tell you honestly what will hold.

One day on site for the average residential fence. Only the very large jobs, roughly 400 to 500 feet and up, run into a second day. The longer part of the timeline is almost always before installation, since homeowners association approval can take a few weeks and committees often meet on a fixed monthly schedule. We give you a realistic calendar at the estimate rather than a best case we cannot hold.

Yes, and it is a real part of what we do. Leaning posts, storm and fallen-limb damage, sagging gates, and rotted boards are usually repairable, and we will tell you straight when a repair makes more sense than a replacement. A repair done properly matches the existing fence seamlessly, with the same board orientation and spacing and the rails on the inside where they already are, so you cannot pick the new section out from the street. Plenty of companies would rather quote you a whole new fence. If your fence has ten good years left and needs three posts reset, that is what we will tell you.

We are based in Catharpin and serve Northern Virginia across Loudoun, Prince William, and Fairfax counties. That includes Gainesville, Haymarket, Manassas and Manassas Park, Bristow, Nokesville, Warrenton, The Plains, Aldie, South Riding, Sterling, Leesburg, McLean, Falls Church, Chantilly, Alexandria, and Arlington. If you are close and not sure whether we come out that far, just call and ask.

We carry liability insurance for every job we install. Ask us for the certificate and we will send it before we start, not after. Virginia contractor licensing requirements depend on project value, and we are happy to walk you through exactly what applies to your project when we come out to measure.