Fence Project Portfolio
Seven finished fences, photographed on the properties where we built them. Not renderings, not stock photos, and not somebody else's work. Deltona, DeBary, Lake Mary, New Smyrna Beach and Orlando are all represented, which covers most of the ground between the coast and Seminole County.
Every one of them started the same way, with somebody walking their own back yard trying to picture a fence in it. That is genuinely hard to do from a brochure. It is much easier when you can look at a run of white vinyl against a brick ranch, or a black aluminum panel threaded past a live oak, and decide whether that is the thing you want. Each project below has its own page with the photos, the material, and what made that particular job different.
What do these seven fence projects have in common?
Very little on the surface, which is the point of showing all seven. There is a crossbuck ranch rail across a coastal cottage frontage and a board on board privacy fence wrapping a pool patio, and those two builds have almost nothing to do with each other. One is meant to be seen through. The other exists so nobody can see through it.
What they share is the part nobody photographs. Every job began with a property line confirmed on paper rather than guessed from an old pin, then a utility locate, then a string line, then post holes dug to a depth the soil on that particular lot actually requires. Sandy coastal ground in New Smyrna Beach does not hold a post the way ground under a Lake Mary oak canopy does, and neither behaves like a cleared Deltona lot. The fence you see in the photo is the last ten percent of the work.
The other thing they share is that a real person had to live with the result. That shapes decisions that never appear on an estimate: which way a gate swings, whether the run bends around a tree, how tall the fence needs to be before it stops being a boundary and starts being a wall. Our vinyl fence installation and wood fence installation pages cover the materials in more detail.
Recent Fence Installations
How do you choose between vinyl, aluminum and wood?
Start with what the fence has to do, not with what it costs. If the job is privacy, you are choosing between solid vinyl panel and a wood privacy fence, and the honest comparison is not the day one price but the ten year one. Vinyl costs more to install and nothing to maintain. Wood costs less to install and asks for a cleaning and a reseal every few years, forever.
If the job is a boundary rather than a screen, aluminum is usually the answer. It keeps the sight lines, it does not rust, and where a pool is involved a four foot panel with a self closing and self latching gate is the standard way to satisfy Florida's residential pool barrier rules. Confirm the current requirements with your county before you order, because enforcement varies and the rules do get updated.
Then there is the middle ground people forget about. Woodgrain vinyl gives you a fence that reads as stained timber from ten feet away and never needs a brush, which is exactly why the Lake Mary project in this portfolio went that way. Chain link still earns its place on long runs where budget matters more than looks, and our aluminum fence installation and chain link fence installation pages lay out where each one fits.
What happens between the estimate and the finished fence?
We come out and measure. Not a rough figure over the phone, because a phone number is a guess and a guess is how homeowners end up with a total that moves after the work starts. Somebody walks the line with you, counts the corners, counts the gates, looks at the slope, and finds out whether there is a slab, a septic lid or a tree root sitting where a post wants to go. Then you get it in writing.
Next comes the paperwork nobody enjoys. Most of Volusia County wants a permit for a residential fence, and a current survey is usually part of that submission, because existing corner pins on their own rarely satisfy a review. Seminole and Orange County have their own requirements, and a homeowners association can add another layer on top. We would rather sort that out before the crew is booked than after.
Then the utility locate goes in, the string line goes up, the posts get set in concrete, and the concrete gets left alone to cure before a single panel is hung. Crews clean up the spoil and haul the old fence away if there was one. If you want the detail on how a job actually runs, our fence installation page covers it, and fence contractors in DeBary has more on working in this part of Volusia County.
Ready to get a fence like one of these?
Tell us which project is closest to what you have in mind and we will come out, measure the run, and put a written price in your hands. Free estimates, no obligation.