Most Trusted Fence Company Serving Leitchfield, Kentucky
The blocks around Court Square have the oldest houses in town on narrow lots, while Elizabethtown Road and Victory Heights Road pass yards that widen into acreage. Homeowners associations are rare here, so the city ordinance and your property lines determine the layout.
A fence quote in Leitchfield usually starts at an old fence line rather than a bare yard, and our crews have handled that kind of replacement for 11 years. Every fence we install carries a lifetime workmanship warranty. Estimates are free, and we sell aluminum, vinyl, and wood material on its own.
- Family Owned & Operated
- Free, No-Obligation Estimates
- Trained, Professional Installers
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- Financing Available
- Fence Material Sales & Delivery
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Tell us what you have in mind, and we will measure the property, price the work, and walk you through your options at no cost. You will know exactly what your fence involves before you commit to anything.
Fence Types We Install and Sell in Leitchfield, Kentucky
Our Recent Projects
Here are some fences we have installed in Leitchfield, Kentucky. Wood and white vinyl each appear twice in the six below, along with a black PVC-coated chain link fence and a black aluminum fence with a matching gate.
Most Companies Give a Year. We Give a Lifetime.
Every fence we build includes a lifetime workmanship warranty. We are a local, family-owned company, and we stand behind our work long after the crew has packed up and driven home for the day.
What Fence Installation Is Like in Leitchfield, Kentucky
Aging fence lines, ground that loosens posts over winter, and a zoning ordinance that names fences outright all shape a job in Leitchfield.
Forty-Year-Old Fence Lines
The median house here dates to 1978, so most jobs are replacements. We pull old posts and footings rather than build around them, so the new fence line runs straight.
Winter Ground Movement
Freezing nights that thaw by afternoon lift a shallow post a little at a time. Frost depth in Kentucky is 24 inches, and we set posts to that depth or deeper.
City Rules, Not HOAs
Because HOAs are rare here, the zoning ordinance governs your fence. We check the permit, the street setback, and the corner sight triangle before we dig.
FAQs
These are the questions homeowners in Leitchfield ask us most, from what the city expects on a permit to which material actually makes a yard private.
Clean horizontal lines suit a newer house better than a traditional picket, so on the newer streets in Leitchfield we most often build horizontal wood or a flat-top aluminum panel. Both maintain simple detailing and low sight lines, which suit a modern facade better than a heavily detailed panel. A plain vinyl privacy panel does the same job on a tighter lot and needs no staining to maintain its appearance. The choice usually comes down to how much of the yard you still want to see through.
Yes, we build fences through all four seasons here, because the ground in this part of Kentucky rarely stays frozen for long. Most freezing nights thaw by the next afternoon, so a crew can dig and set posts in January much the way it does in June. Rain moves a start date far more often than cold does, since spring is the wettest stretch of the year and saturated clay will not support a footing while it cures. Contact us whenever you are ready, and we will come out to measure your yard and quote the job at no charge.
Yes, and they are in the city zoning ordinance rather than in an HOA rulebook. No fence may stand closer to the street than the required yard setback or the front of the house, and schools, cemeteries, government property, and agricultural land are the stated exceptions. Corner lots carry a sight triangle as well, so a driver turning onto the street can see past the fence. Planning and Zoning on South English Street reviews the plan, and the permit has to be issued before work starts.
Chain link is the most practical dog fence we install because the fabric leaves no gap to squeeze through, and one fence line can cover a deep yard end to end. A solid wood or vinyl privacy panel is the better answer for a dog that reacts to whatever it sees, since it blocks the view rather than only the way out. For a dog that jumps, height matters more than material, and for a dog that digs, how tightly the panel sits to the ground matters most. Tell us what your dog actually does, and we will size the fence around it.
Neither is better outright, because each one solves a different problem. Vinyl maintains its color and never needs a stain, which suits an owner who does not want another yearly job on the calendar. Wood takes a stain in any color you like and can be repaired one board at a time, though our workmanship warranty on wood does require staining within 60 days of installation. Vinyl is the safer choice when your time for upkeep is short, and wood is the better option when you want the fence to match the house exactly.
Solid wood blocks the most, and board-on-board with cap and trim is the strongest of those styles, because the boards overlap and no gap opens up as they dry. Vinyl privacy panels are a close second and stay that way, since each panel is one piece and cannot shrink apart at the seams. Chain link and aluminum will not give you privacy at any height, so slats or planting have to do that part of the work. We stock aluminum, vinyl, and wood fence material as well, if you would rather compare panels in person first.
Kentucky
The state writes the building and residential codes that local offices enforce, and it lists an inspector for every county.
Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings & ConstructionLeitchfield
The city office issues the building and zoning permit your fence needs, and it posts the application as a PDF you can fill out.
City of Leitchfield Planning & ZoningReady to Start Your Fence Project?
We install residential and commercial fences, and we sell the materials if you would rather build it yourself. Either way, one call gets you a straight answer from people who do this every day.
