i30 Builders · Kaufman County
Fence, Deck and Patio Cover Contractor in Terrell, TX
Custom fences, patio covers, kitchens, baths and additions across Terrell, TX, big or small.
Permits handled · Written scope and price before any deposit
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Who builds custom home projects in Terrell, TX?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, builds custom fences, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, concrete, decks and additions in Terrell, 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 Terrell requires
Terrell’s fence ordinance is Appendix 2, Section 36 of the zoning ordinance. Two things in it are unusual, and both are worth knowing before you get quotes.
- Every new home must have a fence.
- Section 36.3(A) requires all new single-family construction, townhouses included, to erect an approved fence enclosing the entire rear yard as a condition of final inspection and certificate of occupancy. The house does not get its CO without one. Repairs need a permit, but it is free.
- The fee schedule lists fence replacement as permit required at no charge.
- Ordinance 3121 left the exempt-work section unchanged, so this still stands.
- Eight feet maximum behind the front yard line. No fence in the required front yard.
- Decorative fences at 4 feet or under with at least 50 percent openings are allowed, and no residential fence may be closer than 15 feet to a public street .
- Long prohibited materials list: chain link as non-decorative, welded and wire fabrics, corrugated and metal panels, and used or second-hand material .
- Special purpose fencing such as tennis court fencing is permit-only, 12 feet maximum. Vehicular gates set back 25 feet minimum. No published fee for a brand-new fence.
- There is no line item, and there never was one.
- We call the city at 972-551-6600 and put the real figure on your estimate.
- Terrell adopts the 2021 International Residential Code, via Ordinance No. 2906 of 17 May 2022.
- If you find a source saying 2015, it is a third-party mirror that stopped updating in 2017.
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 fence is a condition of your certificate of occupancy
This catches buyers out. Builders sometimes leave the rear yard fence to the purchaser, and because Terrell ties it to the CO, it has to happen before the house can be occupied.
- It is worth asking, before you close, who is covering it and whether it is in the build contract.
- If it is landing on you, we will give you a written number for it up front rather than after you have moved in.
- Terrell is also growing fast, from 17,465 residents in 2020 to an estimated 23,921 in July 2025, and the Terra Nova development zoned in November 2025 covers over 1,500 acres with roughly 3,600 more single-family homes planned.
- That is a lot of houses that will each need a fence by ordinance.
Sandy on top, clay underneath
Terrell is in Kaufman County, which is only 9.4 percent Houston Black. The dominant soils here are Crockett, Wilson, Mabank and Lufkin, all claypan.
- That means a fine sandy loam surface, easy digging, and then clay. The sand stops at seven to nine inches. Crockett subsoil runs 46 percent clay.
- Lufkin is the outlier, measuring 17 percent linear extensibility at that horizon against Houston Black’s 12.
- Measured over the full three feet a post occupies, Kaufman County ground moves less than Rockwall County ground, around 6 to 7 percent against 13. That is not the reassurance it sounds like.
- The USDA rates anything over 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.
- The easy digging in Terrell is a thin lid, and it is the reason fences here get built on posts that are too shallow.
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 Terrell
The rules for one project, and the one we built here.
Our Services in Terrell
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 Terrell
Neighborhoods we serve in Terrell
From Terrell Heights, Wildcat Ranch to established streets and brand-new construction, we install and repair fences and decks across Terrell. Most of it is zoned to Terrell ISD, along US 80 and I-20. 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 Terrell yard.
- Terrell Heights
- Wildcat Ranch
Terrell Questions
Home project questions in Terrell
Do I have to fence my new build in Terrell?
Yes. The city requires a fence enclosing the entire rear yard as a condition of final inspection and certificate of occupancy. It is worth confirming before you close whether the builder or you is covering it.
Do I need a permit to repair my existing fence?
Yes, but Terrell does not charge for it. The fee schedule lists fence replacement as permit required at no charge.
What does a permit for a brand-new fence cost?
Terrell publishes no fee for one. We are not going to invent a number, so we call the city and put the real figure on your written estimate.
Can I use chain link?
Not as a non-decorative fence. Terrell’s prohibited materials list also rules out welded and wire fabrics, corrugated and metal panels, and used or second-hand material.
Why is my ground sandy if everyone says it is clay here?
Because in Terrell it is both. Sandy loam on top for seven to nine inches, then expansive clay. The easy digging is what leads people to set posts too shallow.
Get a written estimate in Terrell
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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