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Vinyl and Aluminum Fence Contractor, Palo Alto
Fence Contractor in Palo AltoYou get a fence built for Palo Alto’s own rules and your yard’s layout: the right height at every setback line, in vinyl or aluminum that suits the home.
We’ve worked in vinyl and aluminum since 2018, a licensed installer and custom fabricator that sizes every run to Palo Alto code.
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Fence services we offer in Palo Alto
Backyard privacy or a clean modern gate, we install and custom-fabricate vinyl and aluminum fencing across Palo Alto.
Every property here sits a little different: an Eichler flat lot, a tree-shaded corner in Old Palo Alto, a rebuild along a setback line. Tell us the goal and the yard, and we’ll size and place it to fit both.
Services we offer in Palo Alto
We install and custom-fabricate vinyl privacy, picket, pool-code, and lattice-top fencing around town, all with matching gates, alongside our modern aluminum line. Every style is made to your height, color, and yard.
Vinyl and aluminum fencing for Eichler and modern homes
Mid-century homes want a clean, low fence line, and that is where these two materials earn their place. Aluminum in a black or white architectural finish looks deliberate against an Eichler in Green Gables or Greenmeadow, while low-profile vinyl gives the same restraint for less.
Vinyl runs up to 8 feet, aluminum up to 12, so one property can carry a low front line and a full-height private backyard. Where a neighborhood falls under design review, the fence should stay compatible with the house.
What shapes the cost of a Palo Alto fence?
A few things move the number, and none of them is a mystery. Material comes first, since aluminum sits above vinyl. After that it is the run length, how many gates you want, the fence height, and the ground itself: a sloped or tree-tight lot takes more labor than a flat, open one.
Older lots often add one more factor, careful digging around protected tree roots. For a real figure, the on-site estimate is free and quick, with no obligation.
Palo Alto’s fence rules: heights and the no-permit reality
Here is the part most homeowners get wrong: Palo Alto requires no fence permit and no building permit for a code-compliant fence. Under the city’s fence code (PAMC Chapter 16.24), height runs 4 feet between the street setback line and the lot line, 6 feet in a front or street-side yard beyond the setback, and 7 feet in an interior side or rear yard.
At a corner, a 3-foot limit applies inside the 35-foot sight triangle. California’s statewide Good Neighbor Fence Act also treats a shared boundary fence as a joint responsibility with the adjoining owner. Design review or a variance can apply on some lots, so verify your address with the City’s Planning and Development Services.
Fencing around Palo Alto’s protected trees
Palo Alto takes its name from a tree, and the city protects its mature ones under Title 8 of the municipal code. Inside a protected tree’s Tree Protection Zone, the area the city guards around the roots, trunk, and canopy, digging and trenching are restricted, and that includes setting fence-post footings.
No setback number for a post is published, so the practical answer is to plan post locations around the tree and confirm its protected status with the City’s Urban Forestry before digging.
Color, Front and Back
One yard can carry more than one color. A front picket and a back privacy run do not have to agree, and every gate takes whatever its own run takes. In vinyl or in metal, the color is not a coat waiting to fail.
The Three Vinyl Groups
Plain solids sit at one end, even and bright. Smooth wood grains such as Dark Sequoia read like stained boards from the sidewalk. TimberGrain closes the set with a texture your hand picks up. Gates come in all three.
- White
- Tan
- Clay
- Gray
- Coastal Cedar
- Dark Walnut
- Dark Sequoia
- Weathered Aspen
- Mesquite
- Slate Gray
- Arctic Blend
- Brazilian Blend
- Sierra Blend
- Weathered Blend
Pro Vinyl and Aluminum Fencing partners with Catalyst, one of the leading vinyl fence manufacturers in the United States. Their US-made vinyl, our custom fabrication and installation, backed by a transferable limited lifetime material warranty.
Aluminum’s Short Menu
Metal narrows the choice sharply. Panel and slatted profiles take white, black or a wood grain look. Contoured slats get matte black and no vote. Powder arrives dry, held by charge, then fired in an oven until it is part of the post.
- Black
- WoodGrain
- White
Pro Vinyl and Aluminum Fencing is a trained and authorized SLEEKFENCE™ contractor. SLEEKFENCE™ is a premium-class aluminum fencing brand registered in the USA – their engineered material, our custom fabrication and welded install, with a 20-year material warranty behind it.
Three Things Set the Height
Style comes first: a lattice top starts taller than a plain privacy panel, and a pool enclosure has code to satisfy before taste. Then the ground. Then the limit on your own street. We fabricate to the lowest of the three.
| Fence style | Min | Max |
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| Vinyl privacy | 4 ft | 8 ft |
| Vinyl privacy w/Accent top | 5 ft | 8 ft |
| Vinyl picket | 3.5 ft | 6 ft |
| Vinyl wall topper | 2 ft | 3 ft |
| Aluminum privacy | 4 ft | 12 ft |
| Aluminum semi-privacy | 4 ft | 12 ft |
| Aluminum privacy hybrid | 4 ft | 12 ft |
| Aluminum wall topper | 2 ft | 4 ft |
Fences, Gates and Patio Covers We Build in Palo Alto, CA
Our Services-
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Vinyl Gates
The full vinyl gate lineup runs on a metal frame under the cladding, from a single side gate to a wide driveway gate.
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Vinyl Wall Toppers
A short section mounted on the wall or fence you already own, adding height without tearing out what still works.
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Colored Vinyl Fences
Every real vinyl fence color we build, spanning solid neutral tones to layered wood-grain finishes.
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Vinyl Patio Covers
Patio covers and pergolas get built to your yard’s footprint, skipping the sanding and staining a wood cover demands.
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Aluminum Fences
Custom aluminum fencing built in privacy, semi-privacy, or picket styles, powder-coated against rust.
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Aluminum Wall Toppers
Wall toppers welded from aluminum, anchored atop your existing block or masonry wall to add height.
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Aluminum Gates
Gates welded from aluminum to match your fence, built as a walk, driveway, or rolling gate.
What Pro Vinyl and Aluminum Fencing customers say
Outstanding company! I did my research and got several quotes. Pro Vinyl was the most reasonable and very communicative all the way from the owner Jazmine to Carlos the installer. They take great pride in their work and were very detailed. I highly recommend!
Har from Pro Vinyl Fencing was very professional and knowledgeable. He did an amazing job with our fences. The job was done quick and clean in just 2 days. Very happy with the final result of the fencing in my backyard. I would highly recommend.
Levon was an extraordinary worker… nonstop doing the work of three guys putting up a new fence and gates on both sides of the house. He takes pride in his work, doesn’t cut corners, and keeps on going till it’s done, even in the busting heat. He’s amazing
I’m extremely happy with the work Pro Vinyl fencing did on my fence. The installation looks amazing and they were so easy to work with. Mike, the program manager, and Jasmine were super helpful and always available to answer my questions.
The installers did an excellent job installing fence for my front yard and deck. I highly recommend them!
Fence Gallery
Fence projects in and around Palo Alto
Scroll the gallery for a real sense of how vinyl and aluminum look once they go up: privacy walls, open picket lines, clean modern aluminum, and matching gates. These photos come from fence work in and around Palo Alto, so you can picture the style on your own lot.
Fencing in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, from Stanford roots to Eichler tracts
Palo Alto grew up around Stanford, laid out in 1891 as a dry town for the university and incorporated a few years later in Santa Clara County. The garage where Hewlett and Packard started their company sits a short walk from downtown, which is why the city gets called the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
That history left a mix of housing: grand older homes near University Avenue, postwar ranch houses, and the mid-century Eichler tracts that give whole streets their clean, modern look. A fence here has to read right against all of it.
Neighborhoods and lots we build fences for
Across Palo Alto, homeowners call on us from Old Palo Alto and Crescent Park to Professorville, College Terrace, Barron Park, and Midtown, plus the Eichler streets around Green Gables and Greenmeadow. These are established neighborhoods with mature yards, so no two jobs look alike: a deep, tree-shaded lot needs a different plan from a compact backyard.
A couple of settings even carry their own code, with lots backing San Francisquito Creek along Edgewood Drive allowed up to 10 feet at the rear, and the University Avenue frontage carrying its own 6-foot allowance.
How do Palo Alto’s protected trees and the Baylands affect a fence?
Two local conditions shape how a fence goes in here. First, the urban forest: many lots carry protected trees governed by Title 8, so post locations get planned around a tree’s roots and canopy, and a protected tree’s status is worth confirming with the City’s Urban Forestry before digging. Second, the water.
Palo Alto sits inland of the Baylands, which is brackish tidal marsh rather than open ocean coast, so salt-air exposure is minimal for the vast majority of lots. That makes aluminum a sound choice across most of the city; only for a parcel right against the marsh does the aluminum warranty’s saltwater exclusion come into play, and there vinyl is the safer call.
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How your Palo Alto fence project works
How It WorksNothing about the process is complicated or pushy, start to finish. It opens with a free on-site estimate, moves to a clear written contract, then the build itself, and ends with a warranty that stays with the property after the crew leaves.
Our own crew handles the whole build, and you get every detail in writing before a post goes in the ground.
Free on-site estimate
We measure the yard, look over the site, and send a clear written quote. A ballpark over the phone is free too.
A clear written contract
Scope, material, color, height, and timeline all go in writing and get agreed before the work starts.
Quality installation
Our crew fabricates the panels, sets the posts around any protected tree, hangs the gates, and cleans up.
Warranty and aftercare
You get our 5-year workmanship warranty plus the material warranty, and simple cleaning keeps it valid.
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Common Questions
Fencing questions from Palo Alto homeowners
Permits, heights, protected trees, materials: these come up on nearly every Palo Alto job, so we lay out plain answers to what homeowners ask us most. For anything tied to your own street or lot, the fastest route is a quick call or a free on-site estimate.
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For a standard, code-compliant fence, no fence permit and no building permit are required.
Design review can trigger an ARB approval or a Planning variance, and a fence in a public utility easement needs an encroachment permit. Verify your address with the City’s Planning and Development Services.
Under the city’s fence code: 4 feet between the street setback line and the lot line, 6 feet in a front or street-side yard beyond the setback, and 7 feet in an interior side or rear yard.
At a corner, keep to 3 feet inside the 35-foot sight triangle. Verify your address with the City.
Yes, with care. Palo Alto protects mature trees under Title 8, so digging is restricted inside a tree’s Tree Protection Zone, the guarded area around its roots and canopy.
No post setback is published, so posts get planned around the tree; confirm its protected status with the City’s Urban Forestry.
Clean, low-profile lines. Aluminum in a black or white architectural finish and low vinyl both suit Eichler and mid-century homes, like the tracts around Green Gables and Greenmeadow.
A low, open front line keeps the modern look. Where design review applies, keep it compatible.
All of them. That includes Old Palo Alto, Crescent Park, Professorville, College Terrace, Barron Park, and Midtown, along with the Eichler streets around Green Gables and Greenmeadow.
Tell us your street and we will build to your lot. The free estimate covers any Palo Alto address.
The big drivers are material (aluminum runs above vinyl), run length, gate count, height, and the site itself, since slope and tight tree access add labor.
Older lots can add careful digging around protected roots. For a real number, the on-site estimate is free, fast, and no-obligation.
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