Wood Fences
Board-on-Board Fence
Overlapping pickets that stay closed after the wood dries out. The privacy build for owners who have watched gaps open before.
Who buys this fence, and why
You want privacy that stays private. Wood shrinks as it dries, and a plain picket fence opens thin gaps along its whole length in the first summer. Board-on-board overlaps every picket, so the line stays closed even after the boards give up their moisture. Owners who have already watched daylight appear in a two year old fence are the ones who ask for this by name. It is the answer when a neighbor, a pool or a road makes a real gap unacceptable rather than merely annoying.
What your money buys
Pickets overlap by about an inch, which takes roughly a third more wood than a plain privacy fence. The extra material is the entire point of the style. Posts, rails and gates match a standard privacy build. From the street the fence reads as one solid wall, and it stays that way as the wood moves. The overlap adds weight to the run, so the posts and the gate hardware go in heavier to carry it.
What to settle before the crew arrives
Pick the overlap and the height before the crew arrives. A wider overlap closes harder and takes more wood. Tell us if a neighbor shares the line, because the finished face matters more on a shared run than on a back alley. Decide your gate positions now, since a gate in the middle of a long fence is harder to place later. Confirm the height with your association first, since a taller fence uses noticeably more wood across a long line.
What it asks of you once it is up
Treat it like any cedar or pine fence. Stain every two to three years, wash it once a year, and keep the sprinklers off the boards. The overlap holds a little more water than a flat run does, so the base is worth a look each spring. Clear leaves and mulch away from the bottom of the pickets. Nothing about the upkeep differs from a plain privacy fence. There is simply more wood holding the color.
Why the Johnson build is the one to buy
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.
Compare it against the rest
The wood fences page walks through every option side by side, with what each one costs to live with and how long owners keep them.
Free estimate
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.