GETTING STARTED
Fill out the form on our estimate page or call us at (224) 220-1042. We'll get back to you the same day, then come walk your property in person. It's free, and there's no obligation attached to it.
Yes. Free, in person, and no obligation. We'll measure the yard, check the grade, talk through materials, and give you a real written number. If you decide to go with someone else, that's genuinely fine — you'll at least know what a fair number looks like.
The same day. Read enough contractor reviews and you'll find the same complaint everywhere — nobody calls back. We took that personally.
We'll give you a ballpark on the phone if you want one. We won't put a real number in writing until someone stands in your yard. Slope, access, tree roots, and buried utilities don't show up in a satellite image, and a quote that ignores them turns into a change order later.
It moves with the season — spring and early summer are the busiest stretch in this business. Call and we'll tell you honestly where the schedule stands. If we can't hit your timeline, we'll say so.
Plainfield, Naperville, Aurora, Oswego, Yorkville, Joliet, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Wheaton, Downers Grove, and most of Will, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Cook counties. If you're on the edge of that, just ask.
COST & PAYING
It depends on material, height, footage, gates, and your yard — but we're not going to dodge the question. We publish real ranges in our fence cost guide, and our fence calculator will give you a planning number in about ten seconds, no email required.
No. And we'd rather tell you that up front than have you find out at the quote. We set every fence on custom heavy-grade 5x5 posts instead of the standard 4x4, and we hand-select our cedar. That costs more. If the lowest number is what matters most on your project, you'll find one — just ask that contractor what size their posts are and how deep they set them.
Usually it's the posts, the depth they're set, the grade of the material, and whether removal and permits are included. Two quotes can look identical on paper and be completely different fences. Ask every contractor those four questions and the spread will start making sense.
Yes. Financing lets you spread the cost instead of writing one check — which usually means you don't have to cut the fence short on height or quality to make the budget work. See our financing page.
It can be — tell us it's there and we'll build removal and disposal into the quote so there's no surprise line item. Not every contractor does that. Ask.
We'll walk you through the terms with your written estimate. No pressure, no expiring “today only” discount, no games.
CHOOSING A MATERIAL
Short version: cedar for warmth and character, vinyl for zero maintenance, aluminum when you need security but want to keep the view, composite when you want the look of wood without ever staining it. Each one has a page with an honest section on when it's the wrong choice: cedar · vinyl · aluminum · composite.
No. Left alone, cedar weathers to a soft silver-gray that a lot of people prefer. If you want to hold the warm honey tone, plan on sealing it every few years. That's a real cost and a real weekend, and you should factor it in before you choose cedar.
Cheap vinyl does. Thin, hollow big-box panels turn brittle and crack in a hard January. Heavy-gauge vinyl rated for freeze-thaw is a different product, and it's the only kind we install.
Aluminum and composite, generally — neither rots and neither needs refinishing. But “lasts longest” and “right for your yard” aren't the same question. A composite fence you can't afford at the height you actually need isn't the better fence.
A 6-foot cedar privacy fence. It's what most families in the Chicago suburbs are picturing when they call — and it's the fence our company is named for.
HOW WE BUILD
Most fence companies set their fences on standard 4x4 posts. We use custom heavy-grade 5x5s — over 50% more wood anchoring every section, set in concrete below the frost line. You'll never see it once the fence is up. You'll notice it every winter it doesn't lean.
Most residential installs are done in a single day. Bigger yards, difficult grade, or a lot of gates can push into a second. We'll tell you which one yours is before we start.
It helps to be there at the start so the foreman can walk the line with you — where the corners land, which way the gates swing, how we meet the neighbor's fence. After that, you don't need to hover.
Yes. The same foremen and installers, job after job. Steve is on site regularly, and he did not spend thirty years building a reputation to hand it to a subcontractor he's never met.
That's most of the yards we build. We'll walk it with you before a post goes in, figure out where the corners and gates need to land, and tell you honestly if the grade means the fence has to step or rack. It comes up constantly in our reviews for exactly this reason.
We dig, we set, we build, and we clean up. Cleanup is the single most-mentioned thing in our Google reviews — customers keep saying you'd never know we were there. That's the standard.
PERMITS & PROPERTY LINES
Most Chicago suburbs require one, and the rules vary town to town — height limits, setbacks, which side faces out. We pull the permit for you. It shows up in our reviews because a lot of contractors leave it to the homeowner.
Before we dig, the utilities get marked — that's what JULIE (Illinois' 811 service) is for, and it's not optional. It's part of the job, and we handle it.
Your plat of survey is the answer. If you don't have one, we'll talk through it with you — but we won't guess at a line, because a fence built a foot into a neighbor's yard is a problem no amount of good carpentry fixes.
You're generally not required to, but it's usually worth a conversation. It's also worth knowing that some towns have rules about which side of the fence faces out — and a shadowbox fence looks finished from both sides, which has ended more than one disagreement before it started.
They can, and some do — on height, material, color, or style. Check your covenants before you fall in love with a design. We build to whatever your HOA allows, but we can't override them.
AFTER THE FENCE GOES UP
Yes — we'll go over exactly what's covered with your written estimate, in plain language, before you sign anything.
Call us. We're a family company with our name on the fence and 700-plus reviews we'd like to keep. We do fence repairs — including on fences we didn't build.
Vinyl and aluminum: a garden hose, occasionally. Composite: about the same. Cedar: nothing at all if you're happy letting it weather to gray, or reseal every few years to hold the color.
Yes. Leaning posts, sagging gates, storm damage, rotted sections — we repair fences all over the Chicago suburbs regardless of who put them in.
A well-built cedar fence should give you 20–30 years. The posts are what fail first on most fences — which is the entire reason ours are 5x5s.