i30 Builders · Collin County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Princeton, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Princeton, TX, big or small.
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Who builds custom home projects in Princeton, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Princeton, 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 Princeton requires
Princeton’s fence rules are in Chapter 14, Article III of the city code. The headline is not a height cap.
- It is a requirement.
- A minimum six-foot fence is required in the required side and back yards of lots in the SF1, SF2, SF-SE, TF, SF-Z and SF-TH districts.
- Six feet is a floor in Princeton, not a ceiling.
- If you have heard otherwise, that is the most common mistake made about this ordinance.
- Six feet appears as a maximum only in narrower places: wrought iron, composite, virgin PVC and engineered masonry walls; solid fences in the SFE and A districts; and vinyl color-coated chain link, which is permitted only in SF-E, SF-SE and A.
- Permit required for any work over 20 feet in length, repairs and maintenance included.
- The city FAQ says “all fences built and repaired,” which drops the threshold and is not the operative rule. Fee $75.00 , per Ordinance No. 2025-09-22 effective 22 September 2025.
- If you find a $25 figure, including in the online code or the city FAQ, it is superseded.
- The new schedule was appended without striking the old row.
- No solid fence in the required front yard or beyond the front building line. That is a materials rule, not a height cap.
- The only front-yard height figure in the article is 4 feet 6 inches, and only in the SFE district.
- All posts for wood fencing must be schedule 40 steel, buried at least two feet in the ground with concrete support. Wood posts are prohibited outright. Barbed wire prohibited citywide.
- Princeton also registers fence contractors, so it is worth asking any bidder whether they hold a current registration here.
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.
Two things worth knowing if you have just moved here
In a city adding houses this fast, a lot of homeowners are new to the area and reasonably assume North Texas fence rules are uniform.
- They are not, and Princeton is the clearest example: most neighboring cities cap fences at eight feet, while Princeton starts by telling you to have one at six. The second thing is jurisdiction.
- If your address is outside Princeton city limits but inside its ETJ, Collin County requires a Development Permit for a fence .
- Collin is the only county in our area that permits an ordinary fence on dry ground, and its requirement explicitly reaches into city ETJs.
- Dallas County permits fences too, but only inside the floodplain.
- A lot of people in the growth ring assume that being past the city limit sign puts them outside everyone’s jurisdiction. It does not.
- Builder-grade fences also go up fast on new lots here, and they start moving within a few years if the posts were not set properly.
- The schedule 40 and two-foot burial requirements exist for a reason.
The most Houston Black county we work in
Princeton is in Collin County, which is the most Houston Black of the five counties at 43 percent , the highest share in our service area.
- Collin County is 74 percent 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.
- 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.
- On a six-foot fence with schedule 40 posts, how deep those posts go is what decides whether it is plumb in year six.
- Princeton’s two-foot minimum is a floor, and on this soil we would generally go deeper.
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 Princeton
The rules for one project, and the one we built here.
- Deck Building and Repair in PrincetonWe build new decks in Princeton, repair worn ones, and pull the permit. Princeton has no small-deck exemption, so we plan on a permit from day one.
- Patio Covers in PrincetonWe design and build patio covers and pergolas in Princeton and pull the permit. Princeton writes its own setback, foundation and materials rules for them.
Our Services in Princeton
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
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Before you build in Princeton
Guides
Neighborhoods we serve in Princeton
From Whitewing Trails, Sicily, Ranger Crossing to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Princeton. Most of it is zoned to Princeton ISD, along US 380 and SH 78. 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 Princeton yard.
- Whitewing Trails
- Sicily
- Ranger Crossing
- Arbor Trails
- Princeton Heights
- Lavon Shores Estates
- Eastridge
Princeton Questions
Home project questions in Princeton
Do I have to have a fence in Princeton?
On most single-family lots, yes. The ordinance requires a minimum six-foot fence in the required side and back yards of the SF1, SF2, SF-SE, TF, SF-Z and SF-TH districts.
What posts are required?
Schedule 40 steel for wood fencing, buried at least two feet in the ground with concrete support. Wood posts are not allowed at all.
Do I need a permit for a fence repair?
If the work runs more than 20 feet, yes. That threshold is in the ordinance and it applies to repairs and maintenance, not only new fences.
How much is a Princeton fence permit?
$75.00, effective September 2025. A $25 figure still appears in the online code and the city FAQ, but it has been superseded.
I am just outside the city limits. Do I still need a permit?
Probably yes, from Collin County. Their Development Permit covers fences and applies in unincorporated areas and inside city ETJs.
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