Pocatello · Southeast Idaho
Fences built for this ground
Pocatello publishes a three foot frost level, a 45 pound snow load and a 115 mph gust. Those three numbers decide how a fence has to be built here — and most fencing advice online was written for somewhere none of them apply. We build for the ground and the winter your fence is actually going into, and we tell you which rules apply at your address before anything is dug.
Wood · Chain link · Vinyl · Ornamental iron · Ranch & acreage
Get your free fence quote
Tell us about the property. You get an itemised number in writing — and we tell you which permit rules apply at your address before anything is dug.
- Free, and no obligation to book anything
- We confirm the permit rules for your address before you commit
- Priced from the property itself, never guessed over the phone
Would rather talk it through? 972-823-7171
What we install
Five types, each genuinely better than the others at something. Each page covers what it suits, how it fails around here, and what moves the price.
Wood Fence
In-town backyards where privacy is the whole point, and properties where the fence has to visually match a street of existing wood fence rather than stand out from it.
Wood Fence details →Chain Link
Dog runs, boundary and containment fencing, corner lots where sight-triangle rules rule out solid panel, and any long run where cost per foot and low upkeep matter more than screening.
Chain Link Fence details →Vinyl Fence
Homeowners who want a clean white or tan privacy fence and no maintenance cycle at all, particularly in newer subdivisions where the surrounding street is already vinyl.
Vinyl Fence details →Ornamental Iron
Front yards, pool and garden enclosures, and properties where the fence should read as part of the architecture rather than as a barrier — plus corner lots where sight lines have to stay open.
Ornamental Iron Fence details →Ranch Fence
Acreage, hobby farms and rural properties containing horses or livestock, plus in-town properties wanting a split rail boundary that marks a line without enclosing a view.
Ranch Fence details →Not sure which?
Tell us what the fence has to do — contain a dog, screen a patio, enclose a pool, hold horses — and we will tell you which of the five actually fits, even when it is the cheaper one.
Get a Free QuoteWhy fences fail in Southeast Idaho
Almost never at the pickets. Nearly always at the bottom of a post.
Water in the ground expands as it freezes. A footing that stops above the frost depth gets lifted every winter and never quite settles back, so the post walks upward a fraction each year — frost jacking. It does not fail in one season. It leans a little more each spring until the run is visibly out of plumb and the gates stop latching. Pocatello publishes a three foot frost level for exactly this reason.
The second problem is getting down there at all. The Portneuf Valley floor is a mix of wind-laid silt, river alluvium and coarse rock, and which one is under a given yard changes across surprisingly short distances. On the easy ground an auger walks through it. On the rocky ground it stops dead, and the honest answer may be a different fence entirely rather than a worse hole.
Ask what your ground actually needsEvery fence in the city needs a permit
Not just tall ones. Pocatello Municipal Code 15.28.010 requires a building department permit before any fence goes up, and it says plainly that hiring a contractor does not move that obligation off the property owner. Ask whoever quotes you whether the permit is in the price.
Seven feet, four in front, three at corners
The city caps fences at seven feet, drops that to four within the front setback, and to three inside the sight triangle at a street corner — measured forty feet back each way. An open chain link fence can sometimes go to four there. Solid ones cannot.
Gate posts are not line posts
A gate is a lever working on its hinge post every single day. Nearly every failed gate we are called out to traces back to a hinge post set no deeper than the posts either side of it.
How a quote works
No pressure, no same-day-only pricing, and no number until someone has actually seen the ground.
You send the details
The form takes the property, the fence type you have in mind, and a rough linear footage. A guess is fine — it just gets us to a useful first conversation instead of a blank one.
We walk the line with you
On site, together. We measure the actual run, look at the grade, find the corners, and talk about where the boundary really is if there is any doubt about it.
We check what applies
City permit requirements for your address, and your HOA covenants where there are any. These are two separate approvals and they frequently disagree about what you can build.
You get it in writing
Materials, post specification, depth, gates and haul-off, itemised. If something would change the price once we start digging, you hear about it before that happens.
Where we work
Permit rules, ground conditions and subdivision covenants change from one jurisdiction to the next around here — sometimes across a single street. So far Pocatello has a page of its own, covering the permit rules, ground conditions and covenants specific to it. The others are being written one at a time — a city page is only worth publishing when it says something true of that place and not of the others.