Wood Fences
Horizontal Fence
Parallel boards on a heavier frame. The contemporary fence owners bring us as a picture rather than a name.
Who buys this fence, and why
You have a modern elevation and a vertical picket fence fights it. Horizontal boards run parallel to the ground and read as clean lines against a flat facade. It is the style owners bring us as a photograph rather than a name. It suits a newer build, a renovated ranch house, or a courtyard where the fence is part of the architecture. It suits a narrow side yard particularly well, because horizontal lines make a tight run feel wider than it is.
What your money buys
Boards run side to side on a heavier frame, because a horizontal board carries its own weight across the span. Posts sit closer together than on a standard fence and the lumber has to be straighter. You get a flatter, wider look, and a line that draws the eye along the yard instead of up. Board ends land on posts rather than floating, and that detail is what separates a good horizontal fence from a poor one.
What to settle before the crew arrives
Decide the board width and the gap first, because both change the look more than the height does. Tell us if you want the frame hidden behind the boards. A hidden frame takes more wood and more time, and it is a decision made at the quote, not on site. Confirm your association allows the style before we order. Tell us how the run meets the house and the drive, since those two joints decide how the whole fence reads.
What it asks of you once it is up
Horizontal boards hold water on their top edge, so sealing matters more here than on a vertical fence. Seal every two years rather than every three. Keep sprinklers off the wood. Clear leaves out of the gaps after a storm, and wash the line once a year so the grain does not hold grit. Look at the top edges once a year. That is where a horizontal fence tells you it wants attention first.
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.