Residential fences · New Canaan, CT
Residential Fences Set Into New Canaan's Grade and Ledge
Cedar privacy, picket, post and rail, deer fence, vinyl and aluminum, stepped to the grade and set into Fairfield County ledge since 1981.
Chapter 01
Wood, vinyl, chain link, aluminum, iron, or a deer fence
A residential job in New Canaan can mean wood or cedar privacy, vinyl, chain link, aluminum, iron, or cedar post and rail, and it can mean a deer fence or a lattice topper instead of a straight privacy run. The material follows the property: how much privacy the yard actually needs, whether deer are the real problem, and how the fence has to read from the street.
Picking the wrong material for the job shows up later, not on install day. A tall cedar privacy run where the actual problem is deer getting into the garden solves the wrong thing, and a low picket line on a yard that backs onto woods rarely holds a dog in. The material conversation happens before anything gets ordered.
We handle both new installations and the ongoing work of keeping an existing fence sound, so a New Canaan property doesn't need two different contractors for the first build and everything after it.
Long run of cedar board privacy fence with a square lattice topper
Stepping a privacy run down New Canaan's grade
Fairfield County ground rarely sits flat, and a straight-across fence on a sloped yard either has to step down in panels or dig in low at one end and ride high at the other. Scott Ryan's property needed a stepped-down privacy run paired with three-board paddock fencing, and the two styles had to read as one job rather than two unrelated fences meeting at a corner.
Kolleen Johnsen's yard had a slight grade of its own, and the fence line had to sit correctly on it once the old fence came out. Chris Schipper, who has worked with us on several projects, credited us with "a great understanding of the difficult terrain of Fairfield County", and reading that terrain is most of the job before a single panel goes up.
Ledge sits close to the surface across a lot of New Canaan properties, sometimes a foot down or less, and a post that has to land there needs more than a hand auger. We handle that ground as part of the estimate, not as a surprise change order once digging starts.
Chapter 03
Taking the old fence out before the new one goes in
Some jobs start with a fence that's already there. Kolleen Johnsen's project meant removing the old fence first, then placing the new one correctly on ground that wasn't flat to begin with. Old posts, old concrete footings, and old hardware all have to come out clean or they interfere with where the new line actually needs to sit.
Removal isn't a separate quote bolted onto the new install. It's part of the same job, priced and planned together so the property isn't left without a fence for longer than it has to be.
Repairs, and a text that gets answered
A fence doesn't fail all at once. A gate starts to sag, a rail cracks after a storm, a post leans a little more every winter. Jennifer Mongeluzo has texted about a fence fix more than once and had the job done within a couple hours, which is the standard for repair work here, not the exception.
Repairs are half of what we do, alongside new installations, so a fence built somewhere else in New Canaan or Fairfield County is still worth a call at (203) 972-0280 when something on it stops working right.
Kolleen Johnsen, Google review: "The end product looks fantastic." Call (203) 972-0280.
From the job files
Residential runs around New Canaan
Other fence and gate work
The rest of what we build
See the full range of services, walk more jobs in the gallery, or send us the details of your property.
Pool enclosures built strictly to the pool code, in aluminum, iron, wood, vinyl, chain link or cedar post and rail, with self-closing gates.
GatesNew, replacement and repaired gates, residential and commercial, custom-built to the opening: arbors, driveway pairs and gates hung between stone piers.
Ornamental FencesAluminum fencing with matching gates, custom iron gates, cedar picket and post and rail, finished and painted.
Commercial FencesSecurity fencing, ball-field backstops, parks and stadium fencing, with rock drilling for posts in ledge and the Illusions vinyl line.