The #1 fence company in Texas
Wood Fence Installation
Nobody buys more fence pickets than Johnson, so nobody in Texas sells you a wood fence for less. Your old fence comes down, the new one goes up the same day, and the date we give you is the date you get.
Same-day quotes. The estimate is free and there is nothing to sign.
- 24Years in Texas
- 20K+Fences installed yearly
- 4.9Google rating
- A+BBB rating
Your fence is leaning, graying, or no longer doing the job you bought it for. A new one settles that for about twenty years, and on wood nobody in Texas sells you one for less.
Most people start with privacy. Then the rest of the list turns out to matter as much: pets kept in the yard, children kept away from the pool, a shared line the neighbor is happy with, one straight run across the front that makes the house look cared for. Whatever the yard needs, we have built it, about two million feet of it last year.
Ten wood fence styles, and nobody in Texas sells you one for less
Pick the style standing in your own yard, with somebody who has built all of them, and let the yard decide. Each one is for a different yard and a different buyer.
Privacy Fence
This is the standard back yard fence for keeping the neighbors out of your line of sight. You get solid pickets with no gaps, usually six feet tall, and the fence most Texas homeowners picture when they say privacy. See how a privacy fence goes together.
Board-on-Board
Choose this when you want privacy that holds after the boards dry out. The pickets overlap. Gaps that open as wood shrinks through a Texas summer stay covered instead of opening a view into your yard. See what the overlap buys you.
Board and Batten
Pick this for a lot that runs downhill, or a yard that wants a flat face with a pattern to it. The boards go up one at a time and follow the ground, and a batten covers every joint, so the gaps that open as the wood dries stay covered. See how the batten covers the joint.
Shadowbox
The good neighbor build. Pickets alternate from one side of the rail to the other. Your fence finishes the same on both sides, and air moves through it. It settles most shared line conversations before they start. See why shared lines get this one.
Picket Fence
For a front yard where curb appeal matters and a city ordinance caps how solid you can go. Spaced pickets keep your yard open, hold a line for children and pets, and still read as a finished boundary. See front yard picket spacing.
Horizontal
Owners with a contemporary elevation ask for this one by name. Parallel boards run the length of your fence on a heavier frame, which is what keeps a long line straight. It reads as a custom build from the curb. See the frame a horizontal fence needs.
Ranch Rail
The fence for acreage, paddock lines and livestock, where the line has to show from a distance rather than hide the property. Two and three rail post-and-rail, set to carry stock without closing the view down. See two rail against three rail.
Lattice Top
Solid privacy below, open lattice above. It buys you height and light where an HOA caps the solid part of your fence. It also softens a tall fence line that would otherwise wall your yard in.
Cedar
Cedar is the upgrade to make when your budget stretches to it. The heartwood resists decay without a chemical treatment. It weathers to a silver gray that plenty of owners prefer to a stain. See what cedar heartwood does.
Pressure-Treated Pine
The budget choice for a long fence, and it is the frame under your cedar fence as well. Southern yellow pine treated to a ground contact rating, which is what a post buried in Texas clay actually needs. See the ground contact rating.
Price a fence before you call
See what a fence costs before anyone quotes you.
Pick the material, the height and how many feet of fence, and the calculator shows the market range for a fence like yours in Texas. Then a salesperson measures the real one in your yard and the number comes back the same day.
The estimate is free and there is nothing to sign.
What a new wood fence costs in Texas
Cost surveys from HomeGuide, Angi and HomeAdvisor put a six-foot wood fence in Texas at $18 to $45 a foot installed, pine at the low end and cedar at the top. That is a standard six-foot fence on flat, clear ground, before tear-out, gates and slope.
What moves your number
Cedar costs more than pine and looks better bare. An eight-foot fence takes more wood and heavier posts. Every gate adds hardware, a fence across a slope takes more posts, and an old fence coming out first is work a quote has to name. The picket grade, #1, #2 or #3, moves the number more than most people expect, which is why ours names it.
Why the Johnson number is the one to get
Nobody buys more fence pickets than Johnson, so nobody in Texas sells you a wood fence for less. A salesperson measures the fence line in your yard, so the number is yours and not a guess at it, and it covers the tear-out and the haul-off. A hundred crews put it up on the date we gave you, most of them in a day. One year of craftsmanship on the work, and not one callback on twenty thousand jobs last year.
Financing is available through Synchrony, a third party, if you would rather pay monthly. Ask your salesperson for the terms when the quote comes back. See how financing works.
Which wood fence you should actually buy
Western red cedar
Cedar heartwood carries its own oils, which is why it resists rot and insects with nothing added to it, and why it moves less than pine as the weather swings. It is the one to pick if you want the fence to look good bare, because it silvers evenly instead of going blotchy. The forest products people rate cedar heartwood decay resistant and the sapwood of the same tree not resistant at all, so the grade you are quoted matters more than the species name.
Pressure-treated pine
Southern yellow pine treated to the ground-contact standard is the workhorse, and it is what goes in the ground on almost every job we build. The wood preservation standard puts fence posts in the ground-contact category and specifies a preservative load for decades of service there. It costs less than cedar per foot, which is why it is the sensible choice on a long fence where the budget has to stretch.
The two together, which is what most jobs get
Treated pine below grade where the wood is wet and cedar above it where you can see it. You get the rot resistance where rot happens and the appearance where appearance matters, and you do not pay cedar prices for the part of the fence buried in dirt.
The three things that decide how long your wood fence lasts
A fence is three things: what holds it up, what carries the load between the posts, and what you see from the street. You choose the last one. We build the first two the same way on every job, which is how twenty thousand fences last year produced not one callback.
Posts set below where Texas clay moves
The crew digs to depth for the height you picked, wet sets the posts in concrete and leaves them to cure. Texas clay moves through a dry summer and a wet spring, and a post set shallow is why a fence leans three years later. Ours do not.
A frame we never lighten to win a quote
Rails carry your fence between the posts. You never see them, and they decide whether the line stays straight. A cheap bid saves its money here first. We do not build a frame lighter than the job needs to make a number look better.
Hardware that never bleeds rust down your new fence
Fasteners, hinges and latches match the material, so nothing streaks. Your gate hardware carries the most weight and the most use, so its size follows the leaf rather than the price.
How your wood fence will actually look
A wood fence is the biggest single thing you will see from your own back door, so it is worth a minute on how it should look. Every one of these is a choice you make standing in the yard with the salesperson, and none of them changes the price much.
Picket tops
Dog-ear is the Texas default and the quietest. A straight square cut reads more contemporary. A dipped or arched line between posts gives a longer fence some movement instead of a flat line the length of the yard.
Cap and trim
A two-by-six flat cap along the top with a trim board under it is what separates a finished fence from a builder fence at fifty feet. It also keeps water off the end grain of every picket, which is where rot starts.
Which side faces out
Board-on-board and shadowbox finish the same on both faces, so nobody gets the rails. On a shared line that is worth settling with the neighbor before the crew arrives.
Stain, or not
Bare cedar silvers to a soft grey over two or three summers and needs nothing. A stain holds the color and wants redoing. Either is fine; what is not fine is staining wood that is still wet from the mill, so if you want it stained, wait a season.
The gate
A gate can match the fence exactly or stand out with a different top and heavier hardware. It is the part you touch every day and the part that fails first, so it is worth the heavier hinge.
If your lot is not a clean rectangle
Most of what we replace is on an established property, which means the line is rarely simple. Mature live oaks sit on it, irrigation runs under it, the ground falls away at one corner, and the old fence has to come out without killing any of it. A fence on a slope gets stepped or raked depending on which one reads right from your house. An HOA that caps solid height gets a lattice top instead of an argument. None of that is a custom job to us, and none of it goes on the quote as one. It is why somebody comes out and measures rather than quoting off a map.
One price covers the whole job, tear-out to walk-through
The quote covers the tear-out, the haul-off and the new fence, one number in writing. This is what that means on your property, and none of it lands on you.
Your old fence leaves on our truck, concrete and all
The old panels, rails and pickets come down first. The old posts come out with the concrete still on them, and all of it leaves your property on the truck. Nothing stays buried in your yard and nothing sits at the curb for you to deal with. This is a full replacement, so we take the whole fence, not a section of it.
The crew walks the fence line with you before it drives away
Every gate on your property is swung, squared and latched. The crew picks the debris up off your yard, and it leaves with the truck. Then you walk the finished run with the crew, before anyone drives away, and you say whether it is right.
How it works
A hundred crews, so the date we give you is the date you get
You call, or you send the form
A salesperson picks up when one is free. Otherwise you get a call back, almost always the same day.
You get a rough number on the phone
We price from your address before anyone drives out, so you know early whether we are in your range.
A salesperson measures in your yard
The salesperson measures your fence line in feet. You pick the height, the style and the grade standing where the fence will go.
Your quote comes back the same day
One number, in writing, with the scope written next to it. Nobody stands in your kitchen waiting for a signature.
Work starts in about four days
A hundred crews means one is free when you are. It loads every material at our yard before the truck leaves, so it reaches you able to finish the job.
The crew finishes and you walk it
Most jobs finish the day they start. You walk the fence, the gates and the cleanup with the foreman before anyone leaves, and you say whether it is right.
Where we work
Your crew works out of your metro, not a truck from another city
A hundred crews run out of seven offices across four Texas metros, and the one nearest your address is the one that shows up. Your crew is never a truck from another city, so your date does not wait on one.
Houston North
22425 Hufsmith-Kohrville Road, Tomball, TX 77375
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4.9 stars across 64 Google reviews
Houston South
13106 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77047
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Dallas-Fort Worth
13960 US-377, Fort Worth, TX 76126
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5.0 stars across 14 Google reviews
Garland
1137 E Walnut St, Garland, TX 75040
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Austin
11 Indian Meadows Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665
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5.0 stars across 22 Google reviews
San Antonio
4350 Naco Pass, San Antonio, TX 78217
Fencing, Gates
4.8 stars across 10 Google reviews
Customers
Twenty thousand fences last year, and not one callback
These guys are great 😊 👍 They charged almost $900.00 less than three other companies for the same metal, coating and paint for my black metal fence in Del Webb of The Woodlands…Thanks Matthew.
Rita S., The WoodlandsGoogle review, Houston North office, October 2024 Great work. We had two gates installed in the back yard and all fence posts wrapped in cedar. Turned out amazing. Great communication and pricing was fair. I’d use Johnson Services Company again.
Travis H.Google review, Houston North office, August 2025 Options were presented to work within our budget. Supervisor confirmed timeline, crew arrived promptly, confirmed work scope, worked efficiently and left the property clean.
Celeste T.Google review, Houston North office, August 2025
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Common questions about a new wood fence
How long does the work take?
Most back yards finish the day the crew starts, because the crew counted and loaded every material before the truck left our yard. A long fence, heavy gates or a stubborn tear-out can take it into a second day, and your salesperson gives you the day count before you sign anything.
Do you haul the old fence away?
Yes, all of it. The old panels, the old posts and the concrete they sat in leave with the crew that day. Removal and haul-off are in the one price, never a line added to your bill afterward.
Do I need a permit for a new fence?
A residential fence in Texas rarely needs one. Your city or your HOA can still cap the height or set which side the finished face goes on. We check both before a post goes in the ground, which is one of the reasons the date holds.
What does the warranty cover?
One year of craftsmanship on every job, and across more than 20,000 jobs last year not one customer needed it. It covers our work: how the posts sit, how the frame hangs, how the gates swing and latch. Materials carry whatever their maker puts on them.
How soon can you start?
About four days after you sign the quote, on a typical job. A hundred crews means one is free when you are. Storm weeks run longer, and your salesperson will tell you plainly when that is happening rather than let you find out.
Can I pay for a wood fence monthly?
Yes. Financing is available through Synchrony, a third party. Ask your salesperson for the terms when your quote comes back. Then build the fence that fits the payment you are comfortable with.
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Get your estimate from the largest fence company in Texas
Tell us what you need and where the fence goes, and a salesperson will come out and measure the line before anyone writes a number. You get the picket grade and the total in writing, the visit costs nothing, and there is nothing to sign.