Wood Fencing in Bedford, IN

Wood is still the most common privacy fence we install around Bedford, and the reason is the shape of the properties. Older streets near the middle of town have deep, narrow lots where a six-foot board fence is the only practical way to close in a back yard that sits tight against a neighbor’s drive. Move out toward the county and the same request becomes a different job: a half-acre or better, one open side facing a field or a treeline, and a run that only needs to cover two or three sides. Both are wood fences. They get measured, quoted, and built differently.

Two details drive the build here. The first is depth. Bedford sits on shallow limestone, and hole depth can change from one post to the next — one goes thirty inches clean, the next hits rock at eighteen. We auger what the ground gives us and price the holes as they come rather than averaging them across a run and hoping it evens out. The second is fasteners. Cedar’s natural tannins react with cheap electro-galvanized screws and bleed black streaks down the boards inside a season, so cedar goes up with hot-dipped or coated hardware. On open ground we also favor board-on-board over a flat panel, because the overlap takes wind without cupping the pickets.

Before anything gets dug, we walk the line with you and flag three things: the real property boundary, the utility locates, and the septic field. Indiana 811 is a free call and we make it on every job, but a locate does not cover a private lateral field, and on a property outside Bedford’s sewer service that is the one thing a fence crew can genuinely ruin. Older parcels in Lawrence County also carry fences that predate the current survey, so an existing line is a starting point, not a boundary. The estimate that follows is itemized — posts, panels, gates, hardware, labor — and most jobs start within one to three weeks.