i30 Builders · Residential

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

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

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

Stained cedar deck with a step, built around a mature tree.

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Cities served
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Who builds custom home projects across Kaufman County, TX?

i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions across Kaufman 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.Before and after: a pool deck with railings and stairs built around an above-ground pool, Terrell.Stained cedar pergola with curved knee braces and black steel plates bolted at the post-to-beam joint.

What the county requires

For a fence: nothing. Fences are not mentioned anywhere in Kaufman County’s published regulations.

  • The county cannot require prior approval for residential construction.
  • Kaufman operates under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 233, and its own regulations state the residential building notice is not a permit and does not require prior approval before construction begins. The county may not charge a fee for it.
  • The Fire Marshal handles building permits , and that scope is commercial establishments, public buildings and larger multi-family. Single-family residential sits outside it.
  • What the county does permit: floodplain development, on-site sewage facilities, manufactured home and RV parks, culverts and driveways, regulated land use, and 911 addressing. One caveat we flag rather than guess at.
  • A Floodplain Development Permit is required for all development activities within Areas of Special Flood Hazard.
  • We could not locate the county’s definition of development to determine whether a fence or deck triggers one.
  • If your lot is in a mapped floodplain we call Development Services before quoting.
  • 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 Kaufman County we work in

Three cities here publish fence rules, and they could hardly be more different from each other.

  • City Fence permit Forney: the post spec is in the ordinance: 2 3/8 in. galvanized steel posts, max 8 ft on center, in 3 ft concrete footings for fences over 52 in. Posts face in.
  • 8 ft max $20 or $25 Terrell: every new single-family home must have a rear yard fence before it gets a certificate of occupancy.
  • Repairs need a permit but cost nothing New: not published Poetry: incorporated as a town in 2020 with its own planning and zoning.
  • Most reference material still calls it unincorporated See town Crandall: no fence of any kind in a residential front yard, 8 ft max. Uncoated galvanized chain link prohibited.
  • A permit for repairs too By job value Forney is the one genuinely unresolved fee in our whole area: both $20.00 and $25.00 are live in the same current schedule, Ordinance 25-24 of October 2025.
  • Terrell publishes no fee for a brand-new fence at all.
  • We call both cities rather than guessing, and the real figure goes on your estimate.
  • Full detail for every city we cover, including post specs and material rules, is in our city-by-city permit guide .

The jurisdiction problem, and the soil under it

A 75126 mailing address does not mean you are in Forney. That ZIP covers a large area including 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.
  • So for the same mailing address you might be facing Forney city rules, no fence permit at all, or a different town’s ordinance entirely.
  • If someone quotes you a permit cost for a Kaufman County address without asking exactly where you are, that is a sign.
  • On the ground itself: Kaufman County is only 9.4 percent Houston Black clay.
  • The dominant soils are Crockett, Wilson and Mabank, which are claypan: fine sandy loam for the first seven to nine inches, then clay running 40 to 46 percent clay content.
  • Trinity is also common here and is the exception.
  • It is a bottomland clay with no sandy lid at all, and it measures 13.38 percent linear extensibility, slightly more than Houston Black.
  • Measured over the full three feet a post occupies, that ground moves around 6 to 7 percent against Rockwall County’s 13. Less, not more.
  • But the USDA calls anything above 6 percent high and expects structural damage there, and Kaufman County comes out at 74 percent high or very high across the post zone , with 37 percent in the high band and 37 percent in the very high band.
  • The digging in Kaufman County is easier than in Rockwall. The engineering requirement is not.
  • Forney’s three-foot concrete footing rule on galvanized steel posts is the local authority’s own answer to that.
  • Kaufman 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 Kaufman 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 Kaufman County

Kaufman County Questions

Home project questions in Kaufman County

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

No. Fences are not mentioned in county regulations at all. Your HOA or deed restrictions may still apply.

I have a Forney address. Do I need a Forney permit?

Not necessarily. A 75126 address can be in Forney city limits, Forney’s ETJ, Talty, Heath, Mesquite, Dallas, or unincorporated county including Heartland and Travis Ranch. We check first.

Is the soil better here than in Rockwall?

It digs easier. It does not hold a post better. Seventy-four percent of the ground the soil survey rates in this county is high or very high for soil movement in the top three feet, and the sandy surface is only seven to nine inches deep.

Does the county inspect my deck?

No. Kaufman County’s building permit scope is commercial, public and larger multi-family buildings. Single-family residential is outside it.

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