Fencing Company in Applegate, CA
We install, repair, and replace fences and gates for Applegate homes, acreage, and businesses, and we’ve been doing it since 2011. Fantastic Fence is licensed, bonded, and insured under California CSLB License #979657, our crews are background-checked W-2 employees rather than day-labor help, and our work has earned over 1,000 five-star reviews across the region.
Every estimate is free and done on site, because the ground along Applegate Road and Crother Road decides the plan long before the materials do. A good fence here does real work: it defines your property boundary, keeps pets and livestock where they belong, adds privacy and security, and adds value to the property while it’s at it.
We handle residential and commercial fencing of every common type, from a single leaning section to a full acreage boundary with an automated driveway gate. Tell us your fencing needs and we’ll match them to the right fence for the site.
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Fence Options and Gate Services We Provide in Applegate
Whatever you’re shopping for, you’ll find it below. Affordable wood through premium steel, small repairs through complete fence replacement, and custom fence layouts built for the property you actually own instead of a catalog template. Professional fence installation is what keeps a fence line straight and standing: precise alignment, correct post depth for the soil we find, and hardware that still works in year ten.
Premium Materials and Quality Fences Built for This Ground
Fence materials are the part of the decision you live with longest, so we walk you through them honestly. We build with premium materials chosen for Northern California sun, wet winters, and dry summer air, and we size posts and hardware for lasting durability rather than for a thinner bid. Good fence construction is why beautiful fences still look good at year ten, and it’s the difference between quality fences and a line you’ll be propping up by next spring.
Wood Fence Installation and Good Neighbor Fences
A wood fence is the affordable choice with the most natural beauty, and it still gives you the most privacy per dollar. We build with Redwood and Western Red Cedar, both prized for their natural decay resistance, and we build good neighbor fences that look finished from both sides. On exposed Applegate lots, hot sun and dry air are hard on untreated wood, so we’ll talk through staining and sealing that prevent warping and UV damage.
Vinyl Fencing
A vinyl fence is for owners who never want to pick up a stain brush again. Vinyl holds its color, shrugs off weather, won’t rot or splinter, and the upkeep is a hose and occasional soapy water. It’s a clean, affordable look for front yards, pool areas, and property lines where curb appeal matters year after year.
Ornamental Iron and Durabond Steel Fences
Iron fencing gives you classic strength and sophisticated design without walling off a wooded or downhill view, which matters on Applegate properties where the view is part of why you bought the place. Wrought iron styling carries a timeless beauty, and a slim black silhouette reads as a boundary without blocking what’s behind it. Durabond steel brings the same security with a sleeker, more modern profile. Galvanized frames add rust resistance so the fence keeps its finish through wet winters.
Chain Link Fencing for Boundaries and Large Properties
Chain link fencing is the affordable, practical way to close in a long run of boundary line quickly. Chain link contains dogs and animals, marks the property clearly, and keeps sightlines open across acreage. Add privacy slats or a vinyl-coated finish if you want it to disappear into the tree line.
Agricultural and Animal Containment Fencing
We fence acreage for livestock containment, deer pressure, and plain boundary definition. Placer County exempts residential and agricultural wire fences not over 12 feet from a building permit, which gives you real flexibility on taller deer fencing. We’ll size the posts, spacing, and bracing to the animals you’re keeping in or out.
Pool Safety Fencing
Pool safety fencing is where this company started. Co-founder Steve Kempster spent 20 years in pool safety fencing before helping launch Fantastic Fence, and he still runs estimates. California’s Swimming Pool Safety Act calls for a barrier at least 60 inches high with self-closing, self-latching gate hardware, and Placer County adds its own gate provisions on top of that. We confirm the current requirements for your specific address at the estimate.
Automated Driveway Gates and Gate Openers
We install and service automated swing gates, slide gates, keypads, LOOP sensors, and gate openers, including solar powered gate openers for driveways with no power nearby. One rule worth knowing early: in Placer County, a driveway gate that forms part of a regulated residential pool enclosure must be electronically operated and close automatically within one minute. We design to that from the start rather than retrofitting later.
Fence Repair, Fence Post Replacement, and Gate Repair
One leaning section, a handful of failed posts, or a gate opener that stopped responding is a job we’re glad to take. Fence repair gets the same crew and the same standards as a full build, and when the scope is small we can usually close the job quickly. We’ll tell you honestly when a repair makes more sense than a replacement, and we won’t push you toward a bigger project to make the trip worthwhile.
Retaining Wall and Sloped-Lot Fence Layouts
Sloped ground needs stepped or contoured fence runs, clean grade transitions, and sometimes a retaining wall. Placement matters legally too: a fence set too close to the top of a wall can be measured as part of the wall’s combined height under county rules, so we lay it out with that in mind.
Commercial Fencing and Gates
For Applegate-area businesses and managed properties we build commercial iron, chain link, and corrugated metal fencing, dumpster enclosures, and security gates, plus scheduled gate service so access equipment keeps working. We work on residential and commercial properties with the same crews and the same written scope.
Why Applegate Property Owners Choose Us as Their Top Fence Company
Fantastic Fence exists because our co-founder got burned. Dominic Vella was a homeowner who hired a fence contractor, then another, and got unreturned calls, dirty job sites, and crews that couldn’t be bothered to show up on time. In 2011 he and Steve Kempster started the company that should have shown up at his house, and Steve is still one of our most-requested estimators today.
Here’s what that translates into on your property.
- Licensed, bonded, and insured. California CSLB License #979657. You can verify it yourself in seconds on the Contractors State License Board website, and you should, for us or anyone else bidding your job. Proper insurance is what protects you if someone is injured or something is damaged while work is underway.
- Approximately 35 background-checked W-2 employees. Not a rotating crew of unknowns. The people who show up work for us, wear our name, and introduce themselves at the door.
- Flat pricing with zero hidden fees. You get a detailed quote in writing that spells out scope and material specifications: demolition and haul-away, post type and depth approach, panel and picket materials, gate hardware, grade transitions, and cleanup. The number you approve is the number you pay.
- Exceptional customer service and great communication. A real person answers the office phone, and you hear from us before, during, and after the work instead of wondering where everyone went.
- A written guarantee. The job isn’t finished until you give the thumbs up. That’s the standard, in writing, before anyone starts.
- A clean site when we leave. We’re guests on your property. After every fencing job we do a thorough clean-up and leave things as we found them, old fence included.
- Over 1,000 five-star reviews. Earned across years of residential, agricultural, and commercial work in the counties around Applegate, and we’re glad to point you toward recent fence projects so you can see the quality work for yourself.
- Financing available for Sacramento-region residents if you’d rather spread out the cost.
We’re locally owned and the region’s largest local fence and gate company, which means we have the crews and equipment for a long rural boundary run, and the accountability of a neighbor rather than a call center. Small repair or quarter-mile boundary, the expectation on our crews is the same: do an amazing job and leave the place clean. We’re not the cheapest bid you’ll get. We’re the one people call when they want it done right the first time, and sometimes the one they call to fix what the cheapest bid left behind.
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How Your Applegate Fence Project Works, Start to Finish
Four steps from first contact to final walk, with no surprises in between.
- 1. Call or book online. A real person in our office answers, asks a few questions about the property, and schedules your free estimate. No lead form that disappears into a marketplace.
- 2. Free on-site estimate. We walk the fence line with you. We check grade and slope, look for exposed rock and drainage patterns, read what the existing fence and its posts tell us about the soil, confirm equipment access, talk through your property-line assumptions, and decide gate placement with you standing there. Then you get flat pricing and full scope in writing, including materials, removal, and cleanup.
- 3. Approvals and utility marking. We confirm whether any county approval applies to your height, setback, or location, and we have underground utility lines marked through USA North 811 before a single post hole is dug. On a rural parcel with a well, septic, or a long power run, that step is not optional.
- 4. Installation and clean-up. The crew introduces itself when it arrives, builds to the layout you approved, keeps lines straight and posts set for lasting strength, hauls away the old fence, and leaves the site clean. The job closes when you walk the finished product and give the thumbs up.
On timing, we’ll be straight with you: scheduling depends on scope, material availability, site access, and weather, and digging conditions in this area can change the pace of a job. We’d rather give you an honest window at the estimate than a number we can’t hold.
Applegate Specifics: Permits, Terrain, and Property Types
Applegate is unincorporated Placer County, covered by the Weimar/Applegate/Clipper Gap General Plan, so your fence answers to county rules rather than a city hall. Building permits go through Placer County Building Services, with the serving Auburn office at 3091 County Center Drive.
Permits and height limits. Most fences here don’t need a building permit. The county exempts residential and agricultural wire fences not over 12 feet and other fences not over 7 feet, and a code-compliant fence needs no separate land-use permit, subject to applicable zoning and design-review rules. Permit-exempt is not rule-exempt, though. Fencing in a front setback is generally limited to 3 feet, with specified open-fence exceptions in RA, RF, RS, and RM districts. Side and rear setbacks allow up to 7 feet, and street-side setbacks allow it conditionally. On a corner lot, street-side fencing higher than 3 feet can’t occupy the county’s defined clear-view triangle. Work inside a county-maintained road easement or right-of-way needs an encroachment permit issued and inspected by Public Works, which comes up for gates and fences set close to Applegate Road or Crother Road. If your project does require a permit, the county’s stated plan-check goal is four to six weeks for first review and two to three weeks for a resubmittal. Where an HOA or recorded CC&Rs apply, those design guidelines sit on top of county rules, and we’ll work within them.
Ground conditions. The Weimar, Applegate, and Clipper Gap planning area has shallow to moderately deep soils over schist, slate, and other metamorphic rock, with moderate-to-high erosion hazards across much of it. That’s exactly why we set post depth and method after walking your property instead of quoting from a template. Oak woodland, pine, manzanita, and mixed brush affect line clearing, stepped runs, and where a gate can realistically swing.
Property types. Housing in the 95703 area is predominantly single-family with substantial 1960s-through-1980s stock, so a large share of what we do here is replacing an aging fence whose posts were never set for this ground in the first place. We’ll tell you what we find when we pull the old ones.
How we serve you. We reach Applegate through the Interstate 80 corridor from our office at 3626 Fair Oaks Blvd, Suite #126, Sacramento, CA 95864, and Placer County sits squarely inside the service area we cover along with the surrounding counties.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a permit for a 6-foot privacy fence in Applegate?
Usually no building permit, because Placer County exempts non-wire fences not over 7 feet, and a code-compliant fence doesn’t require a separate land-use permit. Other rules still apply: front setbacks are generally limited to 3 feet with open-fence exceptions in RA, RF, RS, and RM districts, corner lots have clear-view triangle limits, easements restrict placement, pool enclosures have their own requirements, and work in a county road easement needs an encroachment permit. We confirm all of it for your address during the estimate.
How much does a fence cost in Applegate?
It depends on material, total fence length, whether an old fence has to come out, how many gates you need, and what the ground is like once we dig. That’s why we price it on site and hand you flat pricing with zero hidden fees in writing rather than guessing from a map. If you want a ballpark before we visit, including the common “what about 200 feet” version of the question, use the Fence Price Calculator on our site, then book a free estimate for the real number.
What is the most affordable fencing option?
Chain link is typically the most affordable choice per run, and wood is the most affordable option when you need privacy. Affordable and well-built aren’t opposites here: we use quality materials and build to last at an honest price, which is a different thing from the cheapest bid on the block. Financing is available if the timing is the issue rather than the budget.
Do you install aluminum fencing?
Most owners asking about aluminum fencing want the slim metal look with almost no upkeep. We deliver that look with ornamental iron and Durabond steel, both built on galvanized framing for rust resistance, and we’ll show you which one makes the perfect fence for your view, your slope, and your budget.
How do I choose the best fence company for the job?
Licensed, bonded, and insured is the first check mark, and the license number should be easy to verify. Ask who actually shows up, whether they’re employees or not, and what the written scope covers. Great service is mostly boring reliability: a returned call, an arrival time that holds, and a site left clean. Our license is #979657, our crews are background-checked W-2 employees, and our written guarantee says the job isn’t done until you say so.
Can you install fence posts on rocky or sloped property?
Yes, and around Applegate it’s a normal day’s work rather than an exception. The planning area has shallow to moderately deep soils over schist, slate, and other metamorphic rock with erosion-prone slopes, so posts sometimes meet rock earlier than a homeowner expects. We use stepped and contoured layouts to follow grade cleanly, and we decide depth and setting method after the site walk instead of promising a number we’d have to revise.
What are the pool fence and driveway gate rules in Placer County?
A qualifying pool needs an approved enclosure with self-closing, self-latching gate hardware, and California’s Swimming Pool Safety Act calls for a barrier at least 60 inches high. Placer County adds a specific driveway-gate rule: a gate forming part of the pool enclosure must be electronically operated and close automatically within one minute. The county also requires inspection of the required drowning-prevention features before final approval, and we confirm the current requirements for your property before we quote the work.
Do you serve Applegate and the surrounding area?
Yes. We install fencing across Placer County, and Applegate sits inside that footprint, reached through the Interstate 80 corridor by way of Applegate Road and Crother Road. We cover the entire area around it as well, along with the surrounding counties. If you’ve been searching for a fencing company near me and getting national directories instead of a crew that will actually drive out, call us directly. On wooded lots, gate and access placement is worth planning around your address-specific fire hazard severity zone, which Placer County publishes through an address-searchable viewer rather than assigning one designation to all of Applegate.
The questions Applegate property owners ask us most, answered straight.
Get Your Free Applegate Fence Estimate
Call the office or Book Online, and we’ll come out to the property, walk the line with you, and put flat pricing and full scope in writing with zero hidden fees. You’ll know what you’re getting, what it costs, and who’s coming, before anyone digs a hole.
Fantastic Fence is licensed, bonded, and insured, California CSLB License #979657, with background-checked W-2 employees and a written guarantee that the job isn’t finished until you give the thumbs up.
Ready for a fence you’ll actually love? Let’s talk. Call us or Book Online to schedule your free fence estimate in Applegate.