i30 Builders · Residential

Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Hunt County, TX

Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Hunt County, TX, big or small.

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Rated 5.0 on Google$1M GL + $1M Umbrella1-year workmanship warranty

Board-on-board cedar privacy fence with a top cap, stained dark.

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GL + umbrella coverage
$1M + $1M
Workmanship warranty
1-yr
Cities served
33

Who builds custom home projects across Hunt County, TX?

i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions across Hunt 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.

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New horizontal cedar fence with a walk gate, stepping down a sloped yard.Stained cedar deck with a step, built around a mature tree.A cedar gable patio cover with a tongue-and-groove ceiling, a sunburst gable and a ceiling fan over the grill area.

What Hunt County requires

Very little, and the county says so plainly: Hunt County does not issue certificates of occupancy and does not require building inspections.

  • There is no county building permit and no county fence permit.
  • Culvert permits for all new driveways, through the Commissioner’s office.
  • Development permits for any property containing floodplain, required before a 911 address or a septic permit issues.
  • Septic and OSSF permits for all systems, through the Hunt County Health Department. The one real exception is Lake Tawakoni.
  • Property within 5,000 feet of the lake project boundary falls under the Lake Tawakoni Planning and Zoning Ordinance, administered by the Lake Tawakoni Planning Commission.
  • It has its own screening, fence and wall section, requires fences to be architecturally harmonious with the development in the single-family and RC-1 districts, and requires a building permit before erection, alteration or conversion. That reaches Quinlan and the shoreline area.
  • We have verified the section exists and requires a permit; we have not extracted its specific height and material limits, so if your job is near the lake we call the Planning Commission before quoting.
  • Fences are not mentioned anywhere else in the county-wide permit requirements.
  • 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 Hunt County we work in

Greenville is the only one with a substantial fence ordinance, and it is one of the cheapest permits in our whole service area.

  • City Fence permit Greenville: county seat.
  • Metal posts required in piers at least 18 in. deep by 6 in. across.
  • Finished side faces the public right-of-way $25 Caddo Mills: incorporated, Caddo Mills ISD, ZIP 75135 See city Quinlan: incorporated, Quinlan ISD, ZIP 75474.
  • Close enough to Lake Tawakoni that the lake district may apply See city Lone Oak: incorporated, Lone Oak ISD, ZIP 75453.
  • Deep in claypan country See city Union Valley: incorporated, ZIP 75189, partly Royse City ISD See city Greenville’s $25 fee is among the lowest of any city we work in.
  • For comparison, McLendon-Chisholm charges $250.
  • Forney may be lower, but its own schedule carries both $20 and $25 and we will not repeat one until the city settles it.
  • Full detail for every city we cover, including post specs and material rules, is in our city-by-city permit guide .

The soil here is not what people tell you

This is the section worth reading if you have been quoted by someone who talks about Blackland clay.

  • Hunt County is only 8.1 percent Houston Black clay. The dominant soil is Crockett.
  • We measured the gradient across the county, cutting it into thirds by longitude.
  • The western third, on the Caddo Mills and Royse City side, is about 17 percent Houston Black.
  • The eastern third, past Quinlan and West Tawakoni, around Commerce and Lone Oak, is about 3 percent.
  • Houston Black essentially disappears out there.
  • What replaces it is claypan: Crockett, Axtell, Lufkin and Mabank, each with a fine sandy loam surface that digs easily and feels stable, plus Wilson. The sand stops at seven to nine inches.
  • Under it is clay running 40 to 46 percent clay content.
  • Measured over the full three feet a post occupies, that ground moves less than Houston Black does, around 6 to 7 percent against 13.
  • We would rather be accurate than dramatic about it.
  • But the USDA calls anything above 6 percent high and expects structural damage there, and Hunt County comes out at 89 percent high or very high across the post zone, the second highest of the five counties we work in.
  • So the ground here is not as bad as Rockwall’s.
  • It is bad enough, and the sandy surface hides it.
  • That is the real risk in Hunt County: not worse ground, but underbuilt fences on ground that looked easy.
  • Hunt 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 Hunt 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

Towns we cover in Hunt County

Hunt County Questions

Home project questions in Hunt County

Do I need a permit for a fence in unincorporated Hunt County?

No, unless you are within 5,000 feet of Lake Tawakoni, where the Lake Tawakoni Planning and Zoning Ordinance applies and requires one.

Does Hunt County inspect construction?

No. The county issues no certificates of occupancy and requires no building inspections.

My ground is sandy. Do I still need deep posts?

Yes. In most of Hunt County the sandy surface is only seven to nine inches deep and sits on clay. That clay moves less than Rockwall’s, but the USDA still rates it high enough to expect structural damage. Setting to the sand is setting to nothing.

What does a fence permit cost in Greenville?

$25.00. That is among the lowest of any city we work in.

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