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Read From the City’s Own Guideline

Four Numbers From the City of Allen

8 feet
The tallest a fence may stand in a back or side yard, according to the city’s residential fence guideline.
18 inches
How deep the guideline says posts go, set in concrete. It also says all fencing requires metal posts, with metal caps and hardware.
12 feet
The limit for a retaining wall and the fence on top of it, measured together. The fence part still stops at 8 feet.
4½ feet
The lowest a pool gate latch may sit above the ground, on the pool side. The barrier itself has to be at least 4 feet tall and the gate has to close and latch without help.

City of Allen, Residential Fence Guideline, dated June 2026, read October 5, 2026. The city’s Building and Permitting office is at 305 Century Parkway, 214.509.4130.

The post line matters most for a repair. A fence held up by wooden posts can be patched for a while, and when a post is replaced the city’s guideline points to metal. The rules page lists what the guideline says and what it leaves out.

Start With the Symptom

What Is the Fence Doing?

A fence that leans

One or more posts have rotted or come loose in the clay. The fix is at the post, not the boards.

Leaning fences and posts

Soft, broken or missing boards

Pickets rot from the bottom and rails split at the nails. Both can be swapped without touching good posts.

Rails and pickets

Sections down after wind

Getting the yard closed for a dog or a pool comes first, the permanent repair second.

Storm damage

A gate that drags or won’t latch

Usually the hinge post or the frame, and around a pool the latch has rules of its own.

Gates and pool latches

Rust on an iron fence

Greenbelt and pool fences made of steel fail at the welds and where pickets meet the bottom rail.

Iron and steel repair

Gray, dry wood

Stain and sealer slow the weathering on a fence that is still structurally sound.

Staining and sealing

Too far gone to patch

Taking the whole line down and starting again on metal posts.

Fence replacement

A new cedar privacy fence

Side-by-side pickets, the standard backyard fence in this part of Collin County.

Cedar privacy fences

Board-on-board

Overlapping pickets so no gap opens when the wood shrinks.

Board-on-board fences
The Fence Is About as Old as the House

Roughly How Old Is It?

  1. Fence under 10 years oldHomes finished since about 2016

    The wood is rarely the problem yet. Calls from newer streets are mostly about a gate that has dropped, a few pickets a storm knocked loose, or stain that never went on.

    Gates and latches · Stain and sealer · Montgomery Farm

  2. 10 to 20 years oldHomes from the 2000s, about a third of Allen

    The first posts start to move and the bottom of the pickets goes soft where soil and mulch sit against them. This is the age where a repair is usually still worth the money, if the posts that are left are sound.

    Leaning posts · Rails and pickets · StarCreek

  3. 20 to 36 years oldHomes from the 1990s, close to a quarter of Allen

    If the fence that came with the house is still up, it has had patches already. Count the posts that wobble. When it is more than a few, the honest comparison is between another round of patches and a new fence on metal posts.

    Repair or replace · Replacement · Watters Crossing

  4. Older than thatThe 1980s streets and the original town

    Almost nothing from the first build is left, so the fence is a mix of ages and styles. The question is usually which stretch belongs to which owner and who is paying for it.

    A fence shared with a neighbor · Cottonwood Bend · Fountain Park

Shares of housing by decade: American Community Survey 2019-2023 five-year estimates as compiled by Point2Homes and DataUSA. Allen’s median year built is 2003. Fence ages are arithmetic from build years; no survey of Allen fences exists that this site could find.

Posts, Rails, Pickets, Gates

Where a Backyard Fence Gives Out

A weathered gray wooden fence leaning into a backyard, with a post broken off at the ground and a board propped against it as a brace A gloved hand pressing into the dark, crumbling bottom of a gray fence board, next to two boards broken off above the soil Three sections of a wooden fence lying flat on a lawn among small fallen branches, with the fence still standing on either side of the gap A row of round metal posts standing in fresh concrete along a string line, beside a stack of old gray fence boards and a post-hole digger Gloved hands holding a new reddish board against horizontal rails fixed to metal posts, with the rest of the fence line still open framing A gloved hand resting on the flat top board of a new wooden fence, seen along its length so the overlapping vertical boards show The bottom rail of a black metal picket fence with orange rust at a joint and one bent picket, with a wire brush and a plain spray can on the grass A wooden side gate hanging low beside a brick wall, with a curved scrape mark on the concrete under its corner and a level and drill on the walk A wooden fence with one half brown and the other half bare gray, with a pump sprayer, a brush on an open can and a drop cloth over the shrubs
How This Site Works

From Your Call to a Crew in the Yard

  1. 1

    You describe the fence

    By phone or the form: the address, how long the bad stretch is, wood or iron, and what it is doing. A phone photo helps.

  2. 2

    It goes to one fence contractor

    An independent company that works in Allen receives the request. The site does not send it around to a list.

  3. 3

    The contractor looks and quotes

    Someone from that company checks posts, rails and gates and gives you a written price for a repair, a replacement, or both so you can compare.

  4. 4

    You decide

    The agreement, the schedule, the warranty and the bill are between you and the contractor. Ask for proof of insurance before work starts.

Where Requests Come From

Allen Neighborhoods and Two Neighbors

Fence trouble follows build dates, so each page below starts from when the streets were built.

Cottonwood Bend Watters Crossing Fountain Park Twin Creeks Waterford Parks StarCreek Montgomery Farm Plano McKinney All areas
Short Answers

Questions Homeowners Ask First

Does Allen Fence Repair fix fences itself?

No. The site takes down what is wrong with your fence and where it is, and gives that to an independent fence contractor working in Allen. The contractor looks at it, quotes it and does the repair as its own company with its own insurance.

Is it worth repairing a fence that is 20 years old?

It depends on the posts more than the boards. If most posts are still solid and upright, replacing a few of them along with the bad rails and pickets can buy years. If posts are loose along the whole run, patching one section tends to be followed by the next one failing.

What does a fence repair cost?

A national cost guide for 2026 puts most fence repairs between $192 and $928 with labor and materials, and fixing a leaning fence between $217 and $960. Those are published ranges and a contractor’s price for your fence will be its own.

Does the City of Allen have rules about fence posts?

Yes. The city’s residential fence guideline, dated June 2026, says all fencing requires metal posts with metal caps and hardware, and that posts are placed 18 inches deep in concrete. It also limits back and side yard fences to 8 feet.

My neighbor shares the fence. Do they have to pay half?

The Texas State Law Library’s guide says a landowner generally has no legal duty to share the cost or upkeep of a fence a neighbor built on the dividing line unless they agreed to. Many neighbors split it anyway. Get any agreement in writing before work starts.

More questions and answers

Tell Us Which Part Is Failing

Posts, boards, a gate, or the whole line. A fence contractor who works in Allen will take it from there.

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