Custom fencing
No two yards here take the same fence
Same fence, same crew, same materials, and the hole we dig changes halfway across town. Most of what people call custom fencing is really just paying attention to the ground.
01 / Soil
Tallahassee changes soil in the middle of town
The city is split by the Cody Escarpment, an ancient shoreline. North of it, through Killearn, Ox Bottom, Bull Run and Golden Eagle, you are in Orangeburg fine sandy loam. That is the red orange clay bearing soil, and it drains at an intermediate rate.
South of it, toward SouthWood and Woodville, you are into Ortega and Kershaw sands. Loose, fast draining, and far less willing to hold a post. Loose sand needs deeper embedment and a wider footing to develop the same resistance as the loam on the other side of town.
A post depth that is perfectly adequate in Killearn is not automatically adequate in SouthWood. Almost nobody accounts for that locally, which is why fences a few miles apart age so differently.
02 / Terrain
Slopes, trees and the corners nobody quotes for
Ground that falls away. A fence over rolling ground either steps down in even increments or it follows the grade. Done without planning you get gaps underneath at the low points, or a top line that visibly wanders. Which of the two you want is a decision to make before the first post goes in, not while we are digging.
Mature trees. Live oaks are the reason people move here and the reason fence lines get interesting. Roots decide where a post can actually go, and a fence that crowds a trunk today is a fence being pushed over in ten years. Sometimes the answer is to move the line. Sometimes it is a shorter panel and a different post.
Corners and ends. On longer runs the corner and brace assemblies do most of the work. A fence line is only as good as what is anchored at the ends, and that is exactly where corners get cut on a cheap install, because nobody photographs a brace.
03 / Made to fit
What we build to order
Oversized drive gates for trucks and trailers. Double gates where a single leaf would be too heavy to stay square. Horizontal board runs. Mixed runs, where a solid privacy section meets aluminum at the point you stop wanting a wall. Fences that pick up an existing line and carry on without an obvious seam.
Every one of them still stands on galvanized steel posts and hangs on welded steel frames. The custom part is the shape and the setting out. The specification underneath does not get negotiated down.
Got an awkward yard?
Slopes, roots, a line that has to dodge something, or a run that needs to match what is already there. Send a couple of photos and we will tell you what we would do with it.