About Sherman Fence

What we do differently

Not much, honestly — and that is rather the point. Fencing is not a complicated trade. It is a trade where a small number of decisions, made out of sight and early in the job, determine whether the fence is still straight in ten years. Post depth. Footing shape. Whether the gate post was treated as a gate post. Whether anyone checked which set of rules applies to your address.

Most of what separates a good fence from a bad one around here is invisible once the last picket goes on. So we tell you what is going in the ground and why, and we itemise it, rather than handing over a single number per foot that could mean almost anything.

Why we go on about soil

Because Grayson County has an unusual problem and most fencing advice online does not account for it. This county straddles a boundary. The eastern side sits on Blackland Prairie clay with a very high smectite content — it swells when wet, shrinks when dry, and moves enough to be the reason North Texas has a foundation repair industry. The western side, out toward Whitesboro, is Eastern Cross Timbers sandy loam, which barely moves at all but grips a post much less firmly.

Two properties fifteen miles apart need genuinely different post work. A national spec sheet will not tell you that, and neither will advice written for a state where the frost line is the thing that matters.

What we will not tell you

We would rather be straight about this than let a website imply things.

• We do not publish reviews, ratings or star counts. There is no operating history behind them yet, and inventing them is both a Google policy violation and a lie.
• We make no claims about credentials. Texas does not license fence contractors at state level, so anyone advertising a state fencing licence is describing something that does not exist.
• We will not give you legal advice. Where a property line actually runs, whether a neighbour has to share the cost of a shared fence, and what an old deed restriction means are questions for a surveyor or an attorney. We will build to whatever line you establish.
• We will not promise a price before seeing the property. Slope, access, corners, gates and old fence removal move the number enough that a phone quote is a guess dressed up as a figure.

How we quote

You send the property details through the form. We come out and walk the line with you — measuring the actual run, finding the corners, looking at the grade. We check the permit requirements for your address and, where there is one, your HOA's covenants, because those two frequently disagree about what you are allowed to build. Then you get an itemised written number covering materials, post specification and depth, gates, and haul-off.

If something would change the price once digging starts, you hear about it before it happens rather than on the final invoice.

Where we work

Sherman, Denison, Van Alstyne, Howe and Whitesboro, and the surrounding parts of Grayson County — including property outside city limits, where a city ordinance does not apply and county requirements and recorded deed restrictions govern instead. Each of those five cities has its own page on this site because the permit rules, the ground and the subdivision covenants are genuinely different in each one.