i30 Builders · Rockwall County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Fate, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Fate, TX, big or small.
Permits handled · Written scope and price before any deposit
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Who builds custom home projects in Fate, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Fate, 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.
Before you pay anyone: check whose fence it is
Fate is built on districts. The city documents five Municipal Utility Districts serving roughly 5,000 existing and entitled homes, and five Public Improvement Districts.
- Fate’s development ordinance requires a mandatory HOA for any development with common amenity areas, and it assigns fence maintenance to that HOA .
- All required screening walls and fences are maintained by the HOA, with a minimum five-foot Wall Maintenance Easement running the full length.
- What that means in practice: if the fence at the back of your lot is a perimeter or screening fence, it is likely HOA property.
- You may not be able to replace it, change it, or choose the material, and the HOA may be responsible for repairing it.
- We will tell you which side of that line you are on when we come out.
- It is the single most common source of wasted money in Fate and it costs nothing to check first. The five PIDs are: Williamsburg PID No. 1 (2006), Williamsburg PID No.
- 2 (2012), Williamsburg East PID at Edgewater (2020), Monterra PID Residential (2022) and Monterra PID Industrial (2022).
Source: Read from the city’s own published code and adopted fee schedule on 22 August 2026. Codes and fees change and city staff interpret them, so we confirm for your address before we pull the permit.
What the City of Fate requires
Permit required when 25 percent or more of the fence length is replaced within an 18-month period, or for a new fence.
- Fee $75.00.
- Eight feet maximum , measured from the highest adjacent grade within ten feet of the fence, and that includes entry gates.
- Columns may exceed it by no more than 3 inches.
- Fence posts for all residential fences must be metal.
- Approved materials: masonry, ornamental metal rail, cedar or redwood, composite or engineered plastic lumber, and other wooden picket fences only with metal posts, metal brackets, metal caps and pressure-treated horizontal members.
- Chain link is prohibited unless replacing an existing lawful chain link fence.
- Slatted materials used to create opacity are prohibited.
- So are sheet or corrugated metal, second-hand items, concrete block and razor wire. Posts face away from the street.
- A fence on a lot adjacent to a public street must orient the side with exposed posts or rails away from view.
- Screening fences are prohibited in front yard setbacks.
- Decorative fencing not exceeding 3 feet may be permitted there, at least one foot from the front property line.
- Maintenance standard: broken, loose or missing parts greater than 8 inches, or a combined area of 20 square feet or more, must be repaired.
- External bracing instead of repairing posts is not allowed. On decks, read the exemption properly.
- Fate follows the International Residential Code unamended, and a deck is exempt only if it meets all four conditions: not over 200 square feet, not more than 30 inches above grade at any point, not attached to the dwelling, and not serving the required egress door.
- An attached deck needs a permit at any height.
- Anyone quoting you only the 30-inch figure is giving you half the rule.
- Fate publishes no separate deck fee line, so we confirm that with the city.
Rockwall County ground, and why Fate requires metal posts
Fate is in Rockwall County, which has the highest shrink-swell exposure of any county we work in: 95 percent of the ground the soil survey rates is high or very high across the top three feet, and the county is 39.5 percent Houston Black clay.
- Houston Black moves about 13 percent of its length between wet and dry, and the USDA documents cracks up to four inches wide at twelve inches deep staying open 90 to 150 days in a typical year.
- That is why Fate requires metal posts on every residential fence rather than leaving it to the builder.
- Wood posts in this ground do not last, and the city stopped pretending otherwise.
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.
Built in Fate
The rules for one project, and the one we built here.
Our Services in Fate
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 Fate
Guides
- Do You Need a Fence Permit in Rockwall, Royse City or a Nearby City?
- Fence Posts in North Texas Clay: Depth, Concrete and Steel
- Do You Need a Permit for a Patio Cover or Pergola in Rockwall County and East DFW?
- Board-on-Board, Horizontal or Side-by-Side: Choosing a Cedar Fence
- Fence Repair or Replace? A North Texas Cedar Fence Guide
Neighborhoods we serve in Fate
From Woodcreek, Williamsburg, Chamberlain Crossing to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Fate. Most of it is zoned to Rockwall ISD, along I-30 and FM 551. Whether you need an HOA-approved cedar privacy fence, a storm-damage repair or a new deck, we bring the same quality work to every Fate yard.
- Woodcreek
- Williamsburg
- Chamberlain Crossing
- Lafayette Crossing
Fate Questions
Home project questions in Fate
My back fence is falling down. Is it even mine?
In many Fate subdivisions, no. Perimeter and screening fences are HOA-maintained under the city’s own ordinance, with a five-foot maintenance easement. Check before you pay for it, and we will check for you when we come out.
Do I need a permit to replace part of my fence?
If you are replacing 25 percent or more of the length within 18 months, yes. Fee is $75.
Can I use wood posts?
No. Fate requires metal posts on all residential fences.
Do I need a permit for a low deck?
Yes, unless it clears all four exemption conditions at once: under 200 square feet, under 30 inches above grade, not attached to the house, and not serving the required egress door. Miss any one of them and you need a permit. An attached deck needs a permit at any height.
How fast can you get to Fate?
Very. We are in Royse City, about six miles northeast, and Fate is our closest market.
Get a written estimate in Fate
Tell us what you want built and roughly how big. We walk it, then price the scope in writing, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
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