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The Privacy Build · Est. 1995

Board on Board Fence Installation in North Dallas

The build most North Dallas homeowners mean when they say privacy fence: boards overlapped so there is no gap to see through, from either side. Here is what it looks like finished.

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  • Overlapped boards, no see-through gaps
  • Boxed posts available
  • Built across Plano, Frisco, McKinney and Allen

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The Build

What a board on board fence is

Board on board means the pickets overlap instead of sitting side by side, so there is no gap when the wood moves. It costs more than a plain run because it takes more wood, and it is what most of our privacy fences are.

The First Decision

Board on board or side by side, what is the difference?

Board on board overlaps every picket over the one beside it, so there is no gap to see through and no gap when the wood shrinks. Side by side sets the pickets in a single plane. Here is the honest part: two fence companies in this metro will describe side by side two different ways, one saying the boards sit edge to edge and the other saying there are small gaps left on purpose. That is not you being confused, it is the trade not agreeing with itself. So when we say side by side we mean a single layer of pickets, and when we say board on board we mean overlapped. Photographs settle it faster than either of us can. There is a third build people mix in too, shadow box, where the boards alternate from one side of the rails to the other. It looks the same from both yards and you can see through it at an angle.

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Close view of a cedar fence where each board overlaps the one below it, beside a post boxed in cedar
The overlapEvery board laps the one below it
Our Work

Board on board runs we have built

Look through these and you will start seeing the differences that matter: whether there is a top cap, whether the posts are boxed in, and which side the frame is on.

A finished cedar fence corner with cap, trim and boxed posts on a flagstone base wall, carrying the North Texas Future Fence cast oval plaque
Our plaque goes on the finished run
A horizontal-board cedar walk gate with a black latch, set into a matching fence
Walk gate, horizontal build
An arched-top cedar walk gate with black strap hinges and a thumb latch, seen close up
Walk gate hinge and latch, close up
Cedar privacy fence with overlapping boards and a top cap, running along a mowed back lawn
Board on board, straight down the property line
Tall cedar fence with a top cap and trim, built up off a limestone base wall
Cap and trim, built up off a stone base wall
Cedar fence panels set between cut stone columns, running the length of a back alley
Cedar panels set between stone columns
Cedar fence turning a back corner with a top cap, crepe myrtle in bloom behind it
A corner lot, wrapped in one continuous run
A cedar walk gate with black strap hinges set between two brick walls, boxwood on either side
A walk gate framed into the run, hinges set square
Cedar fence with a matching walk gate, a small wrought iron grill set into the gate panel
Cedar gate with an iron grill inset
Cedar fence with a top cap behind a long pool, stone coping and a planted bed at its base
A fence line behind the pool deck
An arched-top cedar gate with black strap hinges against a white brick wall
Arched top, cut to match the run beside it
Cedar fence meeting a brick house wall, with a braced walk gate and a stepped top rail
Where the fence meets the house
Cedar fence panels between a cut stone column and a stone base wall, under a maple in fall color
Stone column, stone base, cedar between
Cedar fence with a stepped top cap in evening light, crepe myrtle and a brick border at its base
Late light on a finished run
Cedar fence and arched gate at the back of a yard, flagstone underfoot and a shade tree above
Back corner, gate hung to swing clear
Common Questions

Board on board fences, answered

Quick answers before you request a quote.

Which side of the fence faces my neighbor?

There is no single North Texas rule, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. Your HOA may have a rule. One city we build in has a narrow one: in Carrollton, fence sections running essentially parallel with an arterial street have to face their exposed posts and rails toward the property, under Carrollton Code of Ordinances Sec. 154.05(B). That is a street-frontage rule, not a neighbor rule. Everywhere else it is a conversation, usually settled by who is paying. One argument most people have not heard, and it is worth hearing: the framing on the back of a fence makes a ladder. Turning the finished face out puts the smooth side where somebody might climb.

What does boxing in the posts mean?

Boxing in the posts means wrapping the steel posts in cedar so the fence reads as wood from both sides instead of showing bare posts on one of them. It is the local answer to the ugly-side problem, and it is a real line item with a real cost, so ask for it separately on any quote you compare. In these photos you can see both: runs with the posts boxed and runs left exposed.
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Who pays for a fence between two houses

The three ways this normally lands, and how to ask for a quote you can hand somebody.

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