i30 Builders · Kaufman County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Forney, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Forney, TX, big or small.
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Who builds custom home projects in Forney, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Forney, 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 the City of Forney requires
Forney is unusually specific. Most cities regulate height and materials and leave the structure to you.
- Forney tells you what to put in the ground. Permit required for any fence over 2 feet. The post spec is in the ordinance.
- Fences over 52 inches must use minimum 2 3/8 inch diameter galvanized steel vertical posts, spaced maximum 8 feet on center, set in minimum three-foot concrete footings .
- Stone or masonry columns may substitute, subject to review by the Chief Building Official. Posts face in.
- Fences must be built so posts face the interior and, except the top cap, are not visible from the public right-of-way.
- Eight feet maximum behind the front yard line.
- Both the Code and the Zoning Ordinance agree on this.
- Front yard: no fence in the required front yard, except decorative fencing at 4 feet or under with at least 50 percent openings.
- Chain link and woven wire mesh do not count as decorative.
- Barbed wire and electric fencing prohibited except for farm animals on 3 or more acres. Vehicular gates set back minimum 25 feet. The fee is genuinely unsettled.
- Forney’s current Master Fee Schedule, Ordinance 25-24 of October 2025, carries a $20.00 fence line under the Fences article and a $25.00 “Fence/Retaining Wall” line under Miscellaneous Building Permit Minimum Fees. Both are live in the same document.
- We call the city and put the real number on your estimate rather than guessing. Corner lots are also unsettled.
- The Code caps side-yard height at 4 feet on certain corner lots; the Zoning Ordinance instead requires 15 feet from a public street. We confirm before quoting a corner lot.
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.
The ground here digs easier than it holds
Kaufman County is only 9.4 percent Houston Black clay, so the surface in Forney is often a sandy loam that digs easily.
- That is deceptive.
- The dominant soils are Crockett and Wilson, which are claypan: the sandy surface stops at seven to nine inches , and under it is clay running around 46 percent clay content.
- Measured across the full three feet a post occupies, that ground moves around 6 to 7 percent, less than Rockwall County’s 13.
- We would rather tell you that than overstate it.
- But the USDA rates anything above 6 percent as high and expects structural damage there, and Kaufman County comes out at 74 percent high or very high across the post zone despite the friendly-looking topsoil.
- A shallow post here sits in the sand and does nothing.
- That is why Forney writes three-foot footings into law, and it is how we would build regardless.
A Forney address is not always a Forney permit
A 75126 mailing address does not mean you are inside Forney city limits. That ZIP also covers Heartland and Travis Ranch, which are unincorporated Census-designated places, plus parts of Talty, Mesquite, Heath and Dallas.
- Forney also has roughly 26 square miles of ETJ on top of 14.35 square miles of city limits.
- Kaufman County does not permit fences at all, so whether you need a permit, and what it costs, depends entirely on which side of the line you are on. We check before we quote.
- With roughly 35 planned developments in the city, most Forney homeowners also have an HOA layer on top of the city permit, and Forney’s code makes fences subject to deed restrictions explicitly.
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 Forney
The rules for one project, and the one we built here.
- Privacy Fences in ForneyWe build privacy fences in Forney. This is what the city asks for before the fence goes up, and what it checks after.
- Deck Installation in ForneyWe install wood and composite decks in Forney and file the permit through MyGov. The steps off your deck are built to the riser and tread limits Forney prints on its review comments.
- Covered Patios and Patio Covers in ForneyWe design and build covered patios and patio covers in Forney and file the permit through MyGov. Forney's zoning shapes the cover you can build, so the ideas start there.
Our Services in Forney
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 Forney
Guides
- Do You Need a Fence Permit in Rockwall, Royse City or a Nearby City?
- Do You Need a Permit for a Patio Cover or Pergola in Rockwall County and East DFW?
- Composite vs. Wood Decking in North Texas: Heat, Clay and Upkeep
- Board-on-Board, Horizontal or Side-by-Side: Choosing a Cedar Fence
- When (and How Often) to Stain a Deck in North Texas
Neighborhoods we serve in Forney
From Devonshire, Gateway Parks, Travis Ranch to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Forney. Most of it is zoned to Forney ISD, along US 80 and FM 548. 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 Forney yard.
- Devonshire
- Gateway Parks
- Travis Ranch
- Windmill Farms
Forney Questions
Home project questions in Forney
What kind of posts does Forney require?
Galvanized steel, minimum 2 3/8 inch diameter, spaced no more than 8 feet apart, set in minimum three-foot concrete footings. That applies to any fence over 52 inches.
How tall can my fence be in Forney?
Eight feet behind the front yard line. In the required front yard, only decorative fencing at 4 feet or under with at least 50 percent openings.
What does a fence permit cost in Forney?
This is the one we will not guess at. The city’s current fee schedule lists both $20.00 and $25.00 for a fence on different lines, and neither has been superseded. We call and put the real figure on your estimate.
I live in Travis Ranch. Do the same rules apply?
No. Travis Ranch is unincorporated, so Kaufman County rules apply, and the county does not permit fences at all. Your HOA and deed restrictions still do.
Do I need a permit for a deck or patio cover?
Yes. Forney requires permits for decks, porches, fences, driveways, sidewalks, spas, pools and storage buildings. Forney does not publish a size exemption we could verify, so we confirm for your project.
Get a written estimate in Forney
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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