Fence Installation in Brownsville, TX

• —Fence rules change by city and by subdivision, and Brownsville keeps its own permit desk. Height and what is allowed in a front yard get settled against your address before a price goes out, and the paperwork is ours.
• —If your street sits inside a historic area, or your subdivision has an association, the front fence may be reviewed. We ask for that rule in writing before any material is ordered.
• —Every Brownsville job gets a utility locate filed against the address before anything is augered. It is free and it is not a permit, but on the older blocks it is what keeps a shallow line out of a post hole.

From the build site03

Which homes has David Aceves helped build?

Why is the gate always the first part of a Brownsville fence to fail?

Because the gate is the only part of the line with moving metal in it. The hinge, the latch and the drop rod take the same salt as everything else, and they have to keep swinging while they corrode. On Brownsville jobs those parts go stainless or coated, and the gate posts are set deeper than the line posts. A gate that settles half an inch stops latching, and that is the call we get.

My Brownsville lot backs onto a resaca. Will the posts hold in that soil?

They hold when the hole is right for wet ground. Clay that stays damp gives less grip than the caliche we dig upriver. Posts on those runs go deeper, and the concrete footing gets wider. We also step the line rather than fight the bank. If the ground is too soft at one corner, we tell you before the price, not after the lean.

What happens to a privacy fence here when a named storm comes through?

A solid fence catches wind like a sail, so how it fails depends on how it was built. Posts on 8 foot centers with no bracing go over as a run. We tighten the post spacing on exposed sides and add bracing at corners and gates. A gap at the bottom lets water pass instead of pushing. Nothing survives everything, and we say that plainly.