Fence Installation in Rio Grande City, TX
If relatives split your land without a survey, we build to the marks you set. In caliche, your posts stay put, so the cedar pickets wear out first.
We build fences in Rio Grande City, and our base is in the same city. Drive time is zero, so we can walk your line the week you call. A 150 foot privacy fence takes two days. Caliche in Starr County soil is what decides how fast the auger goes.
Local conditions02
What houses in Rio Grande City actually deal with
A fence in this city is priced on the footage we walk off with you and nothing else. Zone 1 means there is no travel line to add, because the shop is already here. From there the number moves on gates, on how many corners the run turns and on what the auger finds in the first few holes.
- —Lots in town are wide and deep. The run on a back yard fence here is longer than in a mid Valley subdivision.
- —Starr County ground is caliche under a thin layer of topsoil. Once concrete sets in it the post is not going anywhere, which is why a cedar fence in this town almost always fails at the picket long before it fails at the post.
- —Plenty of the fence calls here are not back yard fences at all. They are property lines at the edge of town, built in pipe and wire.
- —Much of that land was divided among relatives over the years and never went through a surveyor. Two neighbors can point at two different lines and both be telling it the way they know it.
- —Bare cedar goes silver in about two summers here. Sealing it in the first year is what actually gets you to the 15 to 20 years the material is rated for, and we say that at the walk rather than after.
- —A six foot privacy fence is a solid wall against the wind that comes through in spring. On a lot at the edge of town with open ground upwind, that wall gets more posts, not deeper ones.
- —Fence height limits are set by each city, and Rio Grande City sets its own. A fence in the front yard is rarely treated like one in the back.
- —Outside the city limit a different office answers, and the height rule that applies in town may not be the rule on your lot. We sort that out before we price the fence, because it can change the height you build to.
- —Utility locate is requested before the first hole is dug, in town or outside it. That request costs nothing and it does not get skipped.
- County
- Starr County
- Drive time from Rio Grande City
- This is our base
- Zone
- 1 · Base
- Languages
- English and Spanish
From the build site03
Which homes has David Aceves helped build?
Homes built by Cuates Construction, with David Aceves on the build. Look at the property edges, the ironwork and the concrete at the lot line: David plans a fencing job with that same eye.
Questions we get04
What people in Rio Grande City ask us
Our family land was never surveyed. Can you still build the fence?
We can. What we need first is one person to walk the run with us and mark it, because we build to the marks on the ground and not to where the old fence used to sit. If two relatives point at two different lines, that has to get settled before we dig, and a surveyor is the only thing that settles it for good.
Does caliche make a fence cost more in Rio Grande City?
It costs hours, not material, and the hours are nearly all in the first day. One hole opens easily and the next one over wants a bar and a second pass. Because we walk the run before quoting, what your particular ground does is already inside the footage price instead of arriving later as a change order.
Can you fence a lot outside town that has animals on it?
Yes. Pipe and wire perimeter is steady work in Starr County and our base is minutes from most of it. Tell us at the walk what the fence has to hold in, because goats, horses and cattle each want a different wire spacing and there is no sense building it twice.
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