Fence Services in Glendale, CA

Our contractors build four kinds of fence in Glendale, and the choice is narrower here than it looks, because the city code does part of the choosing for you. Once a fence goes over three feet in a home zone you can use wood, block or brick, or decorative metal such as wrought iron. Anything else has to be approved case by case, which is where vinyl sits.

Chain link is the notable absence. It is only allowed where plants hide it from the neighbors, and it is banned outright where the street next door can see it. So the four pages below are not a catalog. They are what this city actually lets you build, with what each one costs and how long it takes.

What Each Fence Costs Over Twenty Years

The table above prices the day you buy it. That is the wrong number to decide on, because these four materials do not age at anything like the same rate, and the cheapest fence on install day is rarely the cheapest fence to own.

Take a 150 foot back yard. Redwood lands around $6,800 to $11,300 installed, then wants sealing every two to three years at $3 to $7 a foot, seven or eight times over. Add posts giving way at the sprinkler line around year fifteen and a wood fence costs close to its purchase price again before it is done.

Ornamental iron starts near $12,800 to $22,500 for the same run, then does almost nothing for forty years beyond the occasional chip touch up, provided it was hot dip galvanized under the powder coat. The two converge around year twenty, and past twenty five the iron is cheaper. Vinyl sits between: more than wood on day one, nothing afterwards, and a life that depends on whether you bought virgin extrusion or reground.

Gates do not compare per foot at all, because you buy them one at a time. A walk gate runs $350 to $1,600 and a driveway gate runs $1,400 to $12,000, with anything automatic at the top of that. Gates are also the part that wears out first, because they are the only part of a fence with moving parts.

Which One For Which Situation

• Flat back yard, privacy is the whole point, staying under ten years: redwood or cedar board.
• Sloped lot anywhere in the canyons: ornamental iron, because the panels pivot to follow the ground instead of stepping down and leaving gaps underneath.
• Around a pool: iron at sixty inches with a gate that closes and latches by itself, which is what state law asks for.
• Within five feet of a house in the Verdugo foothills: iron, because the Zone 0 rules say that section has to be something that will not burn.
• Rental property, or an owner who wants no recurring job: vinyl, which Glendale approves case by case rather than as of right.
• A gate that has dropped or stopped latching: usually a new gate post rather than a new gate, which is a half day job.

The Question That Decides More Than Material

Before any of the above, establish whether a vehicle can reach the fence line. Access changes the number more than the choice between two materials does, and it is the one thing nobody can assess over the phone. A quote given without a site visit is a guess.