Nashville, Tennessee's Most Trusted Fence Company
Yards here are rarely flat. Bellevue and West Meade run steep and rocky, so a fence line steps down the grade, and posts often meet rock a couple of feet down. East Nashville bungalows sit on small alley-served lots, while Green Hills widens out under mature trees.
Every fence we build carries a lifetime workmanship warranty, backed by 11 years of work across Middle Tennessee. We are also a wholesale supplier, so you can pick up aluminum, vinyl, and wood materials or have them delivered.
- Family Owned & Operated
- Free, No-Obligation Estimates
- Trained, Professional Installers
- Fence Workers Association Member
- 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.
Fences We Install Across Nashville, Tennessee
Our Recent Projects
Here are some fences we have installed in Nashville, Tennessee. Wood and white vinyl make up most of this set, in privacy and picket styles, with black aluminum and galvanized chain link alongside them.
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.
Material Performance in Nashville, Tennessee
A wet spring, a winter of freezing nights and afternoon thaws, and Central Basin clay that shifts over rock all put steady pressure on a fence line here.
Aluminum is the material this weather affects least, because there is nothing in a powder-coated picket for humidity to corrode, and a scratch in the finish will not start rust the way it would on plain steel. Chain link passes storm wind straight through instead of catching it, though six months of growing season mean honeysuckle and privet climb it unless the line is kept clear. Vinyl needs no more than a rinse through the wet half of the year.
Wood is the material this climate is hardest on, and it is vulnerable at the soil line rather than up in the pickets, so whichever type of wood you build with, staining within 60 days keeps the workmanship warranty valid. Ornamental steel is galvanized under its finish and set on heavy-duty posts, which maintains a straight fence line on the rocky ground west and south of the city. Temporary chain link needs no permanent footing, so wet ground does not delay a job site.
FAQs
Here is what property owners around Nashville, Tennessee ask us most before a fence is installed.
You do not need a permit to install a fence anywhere in Nashville. Metro Codes publishes a fence page of its own and states this directly, which surprises many owners who have built in other Middle Tennessee towns first. Zoning still governs how tall the fence may be and how close to the street a solid one can sit, and a property inside a historic overlay needs a Preservation Permit before exterior work starts. We check what governs your address before we quote a vinyl fence.
An aluminum fence withstands wind better than most of what we install, because the gaps between pickets let a gust pass instead of loading a solid face. Middle Tennessee sits in Dixie Alley, and the building code here works from a 115 mph design wind speed, so an exposed ridge line or a corner lot needs extra attention. What gives way in a storm is nearly always the post line rather than the panel. That is why we set posts to suit the ground on your property, which, on the rockier yards west of downtown, can mean working around rock two or three feet down.
Front-yard fences carry tighter rules here than a rear line does. Metro caps the height of a fence forward of the house, and it limits a solid fence to a lower height where it sits close to the street line, so the sidewalk maintains its sight lines. A corner lot adds a visibility zone near the intersection that has to stay clear. On the older streets in East Nashville and Sylvan Park, a historic overlay can put design review on top of all of that, so we look up your address before anything is drawn.
Staining is the main upkeep, and the first coat is the one that matters because our workmanship warranty on a wood fence requires it within 60 days of installation. Re-coating on a regular schedule after that is what keeps water out of the boards through a spring that brings roughly fifty inches of rain a year. Keep growth off the line as well, because honeysuckle and privet push against panels within a single season in this climate. Wood is the one material we sell with no manufacturer warranty behind it, which makes that upkeep more important than it is on any other fence we build.
Our crew walks the layout with you first, so the line, the corner posts, and the way the gates swing are all settled before the first post is set. Post holes come next, and on clay over limestone we sometimes meet rock a couple of feet down, which is ordinary ground here rather than a setback. The framework and fabric are installed after that, the gates get hung and adjusted, and we clear the spoil and offcuts off your property before we leave. Most residential chain link jobs run a day or two on site, though a long line or difficult access can take longer.
Ornamental steel does more for the front of a property than almost anything else we build, because it marks the boundary without hiding the house behind it. Galvanized steel on heavy-duty posts maintains a crisp line, and a spear-top or staggered-picket design suits an older home far better than a solid panel would. That is worth knowing on the streets where a historic overlay puts your front yard under design review. Reach out for a free estimate, and we will walk the front line with you.
Nashville, Tennessee Pinterest Board
Explore our board on Pinterest.
The board leans heavily toward the city itself, including the trails through the Warner Parks, the gardens at Cheekwood, and the greenway where Shelby Bottoms meets the river. A handful of our own projects are pinned there as well, photographed in yards around the city. Scroll through it if you have not settled on a style yet.
Tennessee
Writes the residential code the local office enforces, and issues permits only where no local codes department does.
Tennessee State Fire MarshalDavidson County
Metro's codes department covers the city and the county together, and every building permit here comes from it.
Metro Nashville Codes DepartmentNashville
Its dedicated fence page carries the zoning rules that stand in place of a permit, from height to sight lines.
Metro Codes Fence PageReady 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.
