i30 Builders · Residential
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Collin County, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Collin County, TX, big or small.
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Who builds custom home projects across Collin County, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions across Collin County, TX, and custom kitchens and baths, large projects and small ones. Every job is priced in writing after a site walk, before any deposit, with permits handled.
- Pricing
- Written price after a site walk, before any deposit
- Permits
- Handled by us
- Warranty
- One-year workmanship warranty, in writing
- Insurance
- $1M GL + $1M Umbrella, certificate on request
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The Work
Fences, decks and patio covers.
What Collin County requires
Collin County requires a Development Permit for any project that will result in disturbance of ground or addition of footprint on a parcel.
- The county’s own guidance names fences explicitly.
- The part that surprises people: it applies if you are outside city limits but within Collin County, including unincorporated land and within any city ETJ .
- A large part of the growth ring around Princeton, Lucas, Farmersville and Josephine is ETJ.
- Being past the city limit sign does not put you outside the requirement. No contractor registration.
- Unlike Rockwall County, Collin does not require contractors to register with the county.
- No general zoning in unincorporated areas, with narrow exceptions.
- So there is no county height limit and no county material rule.
- The permit is about ground disturbance and addressing, not design.
- Your height limit comes from your deed restrictions or your HOA. Collin County does not address raw land.
- An address is conferred through the permitting process, which matters if you are building on a new tract.
- Rules and fees change, so we confirm for your address before we pull anything.
Source: Read from published county and city documents on 22 August 2026.
Cities inside Collin County we work in
The cities here publish very different fence ordinances, and they do not agree with each other.
- City Fence permit Princeton: requires a minimum 6 ft fence in side and back yards of most single-family districts. Wood posts prohibited.
- Permit on work over 20 ft $75 Lucas: 6 ft allowed in front yards, but anything inside a setback must be 50% see-through.
- Repairs need no permit $75 Sachse (Collin portion): footing depths written into code, 24 in. under 7 ft and 36 in. above.
- Vinyl prohibited $75 Wylie: on the Collin County side of our range See city Murphy: post depth written into code by fence height, 18 in. to 3 ft.
- A permit on repairs of 15 ft or 5 posts $100 Plano: front yard fences 40 in. and 50% open.
- Repairs over 25% of the fence in a year need a permit $75 Allen: metal posts 18 in. deep in concrete on every fence.
- No fence in the front yard $75 Frisco: 8 ft behind the house, 4 ft in front.
- A permit past two sections or 16 ft of repair $75 McKinney: 8 ft 6 in behind the front line, 4 ft and 50% open in front.
- A permit when height, location or material changes $30 We also work Nevada, Lavon, Josephine, Farmersville, Copeville and Branch.
- Branch and Copeville are unincorporated communities, so the Collin County Development Permit applies to a fence there directly.
- Full detail for every city we cover, including post specs and material rules, is in our city-by-city permit guide .
The most Houston Black of the five counties we work in
Collin County is the most Houston Black of the five counties we work in, at 43 percent of mapped land.
- That is the Texas state soil and one of the most expansive in the country.
- 74 percent of the county is rated high or very high for shrink-swell across the top three feet, with 65.5 percent sitting in the very high band.
- Houston Black moves about 13 percent of its length between wet and dry, and the USDA documents cracks half an inch to four inches wide at twelve inches deep, staying open 90 to 150 cumulative days in a typical year. Collin County is not uniform, though.
- Austin silty clay is the county’s second most common soil, and around Lucas in the south-central county there is a meaningful Austin and Stephen silty clay component.
- Those are shallower calcareous soils over chalk and marl, and they move far less, around 5 percent against Houston Black’s 13.
- On long runs and acreage lots we do not assume one condition end to end.
- Collin County is one of five we cover from Royse City.
- Compare every city on our permit guide , or see the whole service area .
Source: Soil figures computed from USDA-NRCS SSURGO county data. These are county-level figures, not parcel-level. A specific address needs its own lookup, which we do before quoting a long run.
Our Services in Collin County
What we build.
Fence Installation and Repair
Board-on-board, horizontal, and ornamental steel. Measured on your line, priced in writing after the walk.
Cedar, horizontal and iron
Deck Building and Restoration
New builds, rebuilds, and bringing a weathered deck back rather than replacing it.
New builds and restoration
Patio Covers, Pavilions and Pergolas
Roofed cedar pavilions and open-top pergolas, on flatwork built to carry them.
Cedar covers, pavilions, pergolas
Outdoor Kitchens
Built-in grill islands and full outdoor kitchens, with the utilities run properly and a roof over them.
Grills, islands, power and gas
Concrete Patios, Walks and Driveways
Reinforced patios, walks, pads and driveways, built on a base that expects the clay to move.
Patios, walks, pads, drives
Travertine Patios, Walkways and Pool Decks
French pattern and straight lay, patios, walkways, steps and pool decks, set on a base built to hold them.
Patios, pool decks, walkways
Retaining Walls
Stone and block walls for slopes, raised beds and level yards, built for the clay they sit in.
Stone and block, engineered
French Drains and Yard Drainage
French drains, surface drains, buried downspout lines and regrading, so water leaves the yard instead of sitting in it.
French drains and grading
Room Additions
A bedroom, a bigger living room, a primary suite or a second living area, built onto the house so it looks and feels like it was always there.
New rooms tied into the house
Custom Kitchen Remodeling
Whole-room remodels and planned changes to part of the room, mid-grade to high-end, with cabinetry built to fit. Not a countertop swap.
Layouts, cabinetry, finishes
Custom Bathroom Remodeling
Primary and guest baths, taken back to the studs and rebuilt to a plan. Not a tub-to-shower kit, and not a cosmetic refresh.
Showers, wet rooms, vanities
Wet Rooms and Curbless Showers
The shower and tub in one waterproofed room, or a shower you walk straight into. No curb, no step, and no water where it should not be.
Curbless showers, one wet zone
Home Offices with Custom Built-Ins
A desk wall, cabinetry and shelving built to fit the room, with the outlets, data, lighting and quiet a real workday needs.
Desks, cabinetry, built-ins
Custom Home Gyms
A room built for the way you train: the floor, the walls, the power, the air and the mounting points, planned around the equipment.
Floors, mirror walls, power, cooling
Wet Bars, Butler's Pantries and Wine Rooms
A bar with a sink and an ice maker, a pantry between the kitchen and the dining room, or a glass wine room that holds its temperature through a Texas August. Drawn to the space and built to fit it.
Bars, pantries, wine rooms
Fireplace Remodels, TV Walls and Feature Walls
A new surround and mantel, a wall built for the TV with the wires inside it, cedar beams across the ceiling. The living room's main wall and ceiling, planned together and built to fit.
Surrounds, TV walls, cedar beams
Media Rooms and Game Rooms
A room built for the screen and the sound. Walls that keep the noise in, lights that dim without glare, seating and storage built to the room, and every wire run before the drywall closes.
Sound, lighting, seating, wiring
Whole-Home Remodeling
The kitchen, the baths, the floors and the rooms between them, planned together and built in one sequence, with one person to call from the first walk to the punch list.
Several rooms, one written scope
Aging-in-Place Bathrooms
A bathroom you can keep using at any age or after a surgery: no step into the shower, a seat, bars where hands reach, and doors wide enough, without the room looking like a hospital.
Curbless entry, grab bars, seats
Custom Closets and Dressing Rooms
Walk-in closets and dressing rooms laid out around what you own, with cabinetry built to the walls and light you can match clothes by.
Closet systems, islands, lighting
Mudrooms and Laundry Rooms
A drop zone at the door your family actually uses, and a laundry room laid out in the order the laundry moves, with the plumbing, power and venting planned behind it.
Lockers, benches, counters, sinks
Built-Ins and Custom Millwork
Bookcases, window seats, media walls and paneled rooms drawn to your walls and finished in place, so they read as part of the house rather than furniture against it.
Bookcases, window seats, paneling
Stair Remodels and Railings
Carpeted stairs rebuilt in wood, worn treads replaced, and rails and balusters changed out in steel or wood, with every step and guard kept to code.
Treads, risers, rails, balusters
Garage Conversions
Turn the garage into a bedroom, an office, a gym or a guest suite that reads as part of the house from the street and from the hallway.
Bedrooms, offices, gyms, suites
Sunrooms and Patio Enclosures
The covered patio you already have, closed in with framed walls, windows and a door, then insulated, cooled and finished like the room beside it.
Patios closed in and cooled
ADUs, Casitas and Guest Houses
A guest house, casita or backyard suite, designed for your lot and your city's rules, then built from the foundation to the final inspection.
Guest houses, casitas, suites
Screened Porches and Retractable Screens
Screen walls on the patio cover you have, or a new porch built for them, with fixed panels, motorized screens that roll down at the touch of a button, or a mix.
Screen walls, motorized screens
Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire Pits
A masonry fireplace under the patio cover, a gas fire table by the pool or a wood-burning pit out in the yard, set where the fire rules allow and built on a footing that holds.
Masonry fireplaces, fire pits
Pool Cabanas and Pool Houses
Shade by the water, a place to change and rinse off, a half bath so nobody drips through the house, and the pool gear out of sight, in a building that matches the house.
Cabanas, pool houses, showers
Keep reading
Before you build in Collin County
Towns we cover in Collin County
- JosephineCommunity ISD
- NevadaCommunity ISD
- LavonCommunity ISD
- CopevilleCommunity ISD
- BranchPrinceton ISD
- FarmersvilleFarmersville ISD
- PrincetonPrinceton ISD
- LucasSix ISDs
- WylieWylie ISD
- SachseWylie ISD
- MurphyPlano ISD / Wylie ISD
- PlanoPlano ISD / Frisco ISD
- Allen
- FriscoCollin and Denton counties
- McKinney
Collin County Questions
Home project questions in Collin County
I am outside city limits. Do I need a permit for a fence?
In Collin County, yes. A Development Permit is required for anything that disturbs ground or adds a footprint, and fences are specifically named. It also applies inside city ETJs.
Is there a county height limit?
No. Collin County has no general zoning in unincorporated areas. Your height limit comes from your deed restrictions or your HOA.
Do you have to register as a contractor in Collin County?
No. Collin does not require it. Rockwall County does, and we are registered there.
Which city here has the strictest fence rules?
It depends what you mean by strict. Princeton requires you to have a fence at all, and prohibits wood posts. Sachse, Princeton and Murphy all write post depth into the code: 24 and 36 inches in Sachse, two feet in Princeton, and 18 inches to three feet by fence height in Murphy. Lucas is the most permissive on height and the only one that exempts repairs entirely.
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