Fences & Gates in University Park

University Park is Park Cities ground — SMU's campus, tree-vaulted streets, and some of the most valuable pre-war housing stock in Texas. Masonry added there must match materials laid down in the 1920s and '30s, and the neighborhood's standard tolerates nothing less.

Working Dallas County means working University Park: the 38-mile trip from our shop is shorter than most contractors' first coffee stop. Posts are the whole ballgame: steel, set in concrete, at depths that respect the wind load a solid cedar panel actually catches. Wood posts rot at the grade line on a schedule you can nearly set a calendar by — we don't set wood posts.

Every lot has a story underground: old fill, buried debris, a hidden grade problem the builder left behind. We probe before we promise, so a fences & gates quote reflects what the site actually is rather than what it looks like from the driveway.

Building codes exist because the failures they prevent are expensive and occasionally dangerous. We build fences & gates work to pass inspection on the first visit — footing depths, clearances, anchorage — because to-code is the floor of acceptable, not a premium tier.

Lighting and utilities go in before surfaces close up, not after. Conduit, gas stubs, and drainage sleeves are cheap during fences & gates construction and miserable afterward, so we rough in for the future even when today's budget stops short of it.

Warranty paperwork means less than the habit behind it: build like the callback costs you triple, because it does. That habit is enforced on every fences & gates job by the simplest mechanism there is — the same crew answers for the work later.

What our University Park fences & gates projects include

• ✓Wrought iron sections and pool-code fencing
• ✓Wind-load rated post depth and spacing
• ✓Fence-to-masonry column transitions
• ✓Custom gates with sag-proof hardware
• ✓Stain and seal application
• ✓Board-on-board and side-by-side cedar construction

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