Aluminum & Ornamental Fence Installation in Lawrence, KS
Aluminum gives you the ornamental, wrought-iron look in a material that does not rust and does not need repainting. We install it across Lawrence, Douglas County and the surrounding towns.
The wrought-iron look without the rust — installed across Lawrence and Douglas County.
Aluminum & Ornamental Fence Installation
Aluminum fencing is the open, ornamental option: powder-coated rails and pickets, flat-top or spear-top, that read as wrought iron from the curb without the upkeep real iron demands. Iron rusts. Aluminum does not, and the powder coat is baked on at the factory rather than brushed on at your house, so a Kansas winter of freeze, thaw and blowing grit will not put you on a ladder with a wire brush every spring. It is the fence homeowners pick when they want a boundary that looks deliberate and still lets the yard breathe.
It is worth naming the trade-off up front, because it is the one thing aluminum will not do for you: this is not a privacy fence. The pickets are spaced, and you will see through it. That is the point. An aluminum fence defines a front yard, rings a pool, or closes off a side lot without walling away the view. Around the University of Kansas neighborhoods and the older streets east of Massachusetts, that matters, because a six-foot board fence out front would look wrong on the house and a four-foot ornamental panel does not.
Installation matters more with aluminum than people expect. Panels arrive in fixed lengths, so post layout gets planned before anything goes in the ground, and Douglas County clay holds water. Posts set shallow or backfilled carelessly will heave the first time the ground freezes and thaws. We set posts in concrete below frost depth, rack the panels to follow grade instead of stair-stepping them where the yard rolls, and pull a line before the first section goes on. On a sloped lot, racking is usually what separates a fence that looks custom from one that looks bought.
Pool fencing is where aluminum earns its keep. A pool barrier has rules a decorative fence does not: a minimum height, picket spacing narrow enough that a small child cannot pass through, no climbable foothold on the outside face, and a gate that swings away from the water and both self-closes and self-latches out of a child's reach. The exact figures come from the code in force for your address, so we confirm them with the city or county rather than guess, and we tell you what your project needs during the estimate, which is free, on site and no-obligation.
How it works
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Free Estimate
We assess the job, talk through your goals, and give you a clear, no-obligation written estimate.
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Schedule
We lock in a date that works for you and prep everything needed to do the job right.
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We Do the Work
Our experienced, fully-equipped crew completes the work safely, cleanly, and on schedule.
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Final Walkthrough
We review the finished work with you and clean up so you’re completely satisfied.
What’s included
- Flat-top aluminum panels
- Spear-top ornamental panels
- Aluminum pool enclosures
- Front-yard aluminum picket fencing
- Two-rail and three-rail configurations
- Single walk gates and double drive gates
- Commercial aluminum perimeter fence
- Powder-coated finish options
Aluminum & Ornamental Fence Installation questions, answered
- Is an aluminum fence the same thing as wrought iron?
- From twenty feet they are hard to tell apart, but no. Wrought iron is forged steel: heavy, strong, and it rusts, which puts you on a scraping-and-repainting cycle for the life of the fence. Aluminum is extruded and powder-coated. It gives you the same spear-top, open-picket look and it does not corrode. We install the aluminum version.
- Will an aluminum fence give me any privacy?
- Not much, and it is not designed to. The pickets are spaced, so you can see through it and so can your neighbors. If privacy is the goal, a wood, vinyl or composite privacy fence is the right call and we build those as well. Plenty of Lawrence properties end up with both: ornamental aluminum out front, a solid privacy fence around the back yard.
- Can an aluminum fence meet pool safety requirements in Lawrence?
- Yes, and it is one of the most common uses for ornamental aluminum. A pool barrier has to clear a minimum height, use picket spacing tight enough that a small child cannot slip through, avoid footholds on the outside face that turn the fence into a ladder, and carry a self-closing, self-latching gate. The exact numbers come from the code in force for your address, so we confirm them with the city or county and build to what your lot actually needs before the first post goes in.
- My yard is not flat. Does that rule aluminum out?
- The opposite, usually. Aluminum panels rack, meaning the rails pivot at the posts so the fence follows the grade rather than stepping down it. That keeps the gap under the fence consistent, which matters on the rolling lots common across Douglas County and matters a great deal around a pool, where a gap underneath defeats the purpose. We walk the line and set post spacing before anything is dug.
- Do I need a permit for an aluminum fence in Lawrence?
- Sometimes. In Lawrence and across Douglas County the requirements change with fence height and where the fence sits on the property, and pool enclosures carry their own rules on top of that. We have been installing fences in these jurisdictions since 2005, so we will tell you what your project needs during the on-site estimate instead of after the posts are set.
- How long does an aluminum fence installation take?
- Most residential jobs are a matter of days rather than weeks once materials are on site. Footage, how many gates you need and how much the grade moves are what move the number. Post concrete has to cure before gates get hung, so we schedule around that rather than rush it. Your estimate comes with the timeline for your job. Call (785) 521-7105 to set up the on-site visit.
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