About Lawrence Fence Company: Fence Builders in Lawrence, KS Since 2005

The company was founded in Lawrence in 2005, and it grew the way a fence business grows in a town this size: one yard at a time, with the next job often coming from the neighbor who watched the last one go in. Two decades on, the work has widened to take in businesses, rental property, pool enclosures and custom panels, but the shape of it has not changed much. Somebody calls, we come out and measure, and we build the thing we said we would build. Lawrence is small enough that a fence you did badly in 2012 is still standing there in 2026 with your name attached to it, which is a useful thing for a contractor to have to think about.

Twenty years in one county teaches you things a catalog will not. Kansas gives a fence a hard time. Winter here freezes and thaws over and over rather than settling in cold, and every one of those cycles tries to lift a post that was not set deep enough, so footings go below the frost line and get crowned so water runs off instead of pooling around the post. The wind does the rest. A six-foot solid privacy panel on an open lot is a sail, and on exposed runs that means tighter post spacing rather than trusting a long span to survive a spring storm. Then there is the clay, which swells after a wet week and pulls away from itself in August. None of that shows up on the estimate, and all of it decides whether the line is still straight in ten years.

The jobs come from every part of town. Families who want the yard closed in before the dog or the toddler figures out the gap under the deck. Homeowners on the older streets near downtown and the university, where the lots are narrow, the trees are mature and the property pins vanished under somebody's landscaping a long time ago. Landlords around campus who need galvanized or vinyl-coated chain link that can take turnover every August without complaint. Businesses fencing parking lots and equipment yards. Schools that need a safe boundary around a play area. And a steady run of pool fence, which has its own barrier rules about height, gaps and self-latching gates that a neighbor's recommendation will not answer for you.

Being local is the part of this we care most about. This is a Lawrence company rather than a regional one with a Lawrence phone number, and over the years it has sponsored local events, done work for area schools and built for businesses around the county. In a town where everybody eventually knows everybody, that kind of standing is the only sort worth having, and it takes years to earn and one bad job to lose. It also means that if something is wrong with a fence we built, we are twenty minutes away rather than an hour down K-10.

Every project starts with a free estimate, on site and with no obligation. We would rather walk the line with you than quote a number over the phone, because slope, corners, gates, tree roots, rock and where exactly the property line falls all move the price, and none of it is visible from an office. While we are out there we will also tell you what the local rules mean for your particular fence. Permit requirements in Lawrence and elsewhere in Douglas County vary with fence height and where the fence sits on the property, and newer subdivisions often add an HOA review on top of that. Better to find out standing in the yard than after the posts are in concrete.

We work across Lawrence and Douglas County, including Eudora, Baldwin City and Lecompton, out to Perry just over the line in Jefferson County, and west to Topeka. If you want to talk through a project, call (785) 521-7105 or send the form on this page. Our hours are 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, and the shop is at 801 Crestline Dr in Lawrence. Tell us what you are fencing and why, and we will tell you honestly what it takes.