i30 Builders · Dallas County

Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Sachse, TX

Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Sachse, 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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Who builds custom home projects in Sachse, TX?

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

See residential projects
Board-on-board cedar enclosure against a brick house, with a top cap, black strap hinges and a thumb latch.Two-level stained cedar deck with railings, wide steps and a built-in bench.A cedar gable patio cover with a tongue-and-groove ceiling, a sunburst gable and a ceiling fan over the grill area.

What the City of Sachse requires

Sachse’s fence rules are in Code § 3-9 plus a detailed residential permit handout. It is the most prescriptive ordinance in our area on how a fence is actually built.

  • Permit required. Fee $75.00.
  • The fence contractor must also register as a General Contractor with the city before the permit issues.
  • Trigger: a new fence or gate, replacing or relocating posts, repairing or replacing more than 25 percent of the existing fence, changing the height, or changing the material.
  • Pickets alone can be swapped without a permit if none of those apply. Footing depths, in the code itself.
  • Fences under 7 feet: posts at maximum 8 feet on center in a concrete footing no less than 24 inches deep .
  • Fences 7 feet and over: posts at maximum 6 feet on center in a footing no less than 36 inches deep .
  • Eight feet maximum along the rear property line and on side yards from the rear property line to the front building line.
  • Front yard 3 feet, or 4 feet on lots of one acre or more . Vinyl is prohibited.
  • Permitted: stone, masonry, brick, wood, decorative tubular steel, chain link, split rail, composite.
  • Prohibited: sheet metal, corrugated or enhanced metal panels, plywood, fiberglass and vinyl.
  • Corner lots: the fence may run to the property line at full height except a 15-foot site angle.
  • Driveway and alley intersections need a 10 by 10 foot clear triangle; street and alley intersections need 15 by 15. Decks and patios are permitted as flatwork.
  • Sachse publishes no size exemption we could verify, so we confirm the threshold and the fee with the city rather than assuming either.
  • Attached patio covers need a full plan set including foundation details with pier depth and width, and all-metal structures require plans stamped by a Texas licensed engineer.
  • Paving is limited to 10 percent of total lot coverage, though pools, decking, required driveways and patios are exempt.

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.

Vinyl is banned here and allowed in Rowlett

Rowlett, immediately south, lists PVC as a permitted fencing material. Sachse expressly prohibits vinyl.

  • Two adjacent cities, opposite answers to the same question. This comes up more than you would think.
  • If a neighbor on the Rowlett side has a vinyl fence and you want to match it in Sachse, you cannot.
  • We check which side of the line you are on before we talk materials.

Why Sachse writes footing depths into law

Sachse’s dominant soils are Heiden clay, Houston Black and the Ferris-Heiden complex, plus Tinn and Trinity clay in the creek bottoms along Muddy Creek and Rowlett Creek.

  • Heiden measures 13.25 percent linear extensibility over the top three feet and Ferris measures 14.39 percent, both marginally higher than Houston Black’s 13.
  • These are among the most active soils in the region.
  • That is almost certainly why Sachse codifies 24 and 36 inch footings when most cities say nothing at all.
  • The city is telling you what its ground does.
  • Treat those numbers as a floor rather than a target.

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 Sachse

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

Neighborhoods we serve in Sachse

From Woodbridge, Idlewild Estates, The Station to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Sachse. Most of it is zoned to Garland ISD / Wylie ISD, along SH 78 and PGBT. 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 Sachse yard.

  • Woodbridge
  • Idlewild Estates
  • The Station
  • Sachse Farms
  • Heritage Park
  • Stoney Creek

Sachse Questions

Home project questions in Sachse

Can I put up a vinyl fence in Sachse?

No. Vinyl is on the prohibited materials list. Rowlett, immediately south, permits PVC, which causes a lot of confusion between neighbors.

How deep do posts have to go in Sachse?

24 inches for a fence under 7 feet, and 36 inches at 7 feet and over. That is written into the ordinance, not just good practice.

Can I replace just the pickets without a permit?

Yes, as long as you are not touching posts, changing the height or changing the material.

Do I need a permit for a concrete patio or a deck?

Yes. Sachse permits flatwork, decks and patios included. It does not publish a size exemption or a separate deck fee that we could verify, so we confirm both with the city before quoting. The $75.00 figure you will see quoted is the fence permit, not the deck permit.

Which school district am I in?

It depends on your county. Dallas County residents attend Garland ISD; Collin County residents attend Wylie ISD.

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