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Cerritos caps front fences at 30 inches near the street, so your vinyl or aluminum run gets designed to read low, open and finished, not squeezed by a limit.

We install and custom fabricate both materials, and Cerritos bans chain link outright, exactly the kind of local detail we plan around.

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Vinyl and Aluminum Work in Cerritos

Cerritos packs a lot of housing into 8.86 square miles, and tighter lots mean fence lines have to be planned, not improvised.

A crew measures your actual property line and setback before anything is priced, so the height, gate placement and material you get already account for Cerritos’s 30-inch front rule and its ban on chain link, not a generic estimate.

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White vinyl vertical privacy fence levels a terraced hillside yard planted with camellias and crepe myrtle

Fencing shaped by Cerritos’s low front-yard limit

Within 5 feet of the front property line, Cerritos caps a fence at 30 inches, about waist height. Set the fence back 5 feet or more and a decorative style can run up to 5 feet.

That low first band is why low picket vinyl, two-tone rail styles and open aluminum picket runs do so much of the work on Cerritos front yards: they read as a defined edge without blocking the sightline the code is protecting. Side and rear fencing has more room to work with, so full-privacy tongue-and-groove vinyl or closed-slat aluminum both fit back there.

Why chain link is off the table here

Cerritos prohibits chain link fencing outright. That rule pushes a lot of homeowners toward vinyl or aluminum for the first time, and both hold up as a straightforward swap: vinyl needs a rinse twice a year and never needs paint, while aluminum keeps a modern, powder-coated line that reads nothing like the material it’s replacing.

Vinyl’s color is mixed into the PVC itself instead of coated on afterward, so a scrape never shows a different shade underneath, and it doesn’t yellow sitting in the sun the way some old chain-link coating does.

Five stepped Clay vinyl privacy fence panels run below a red tile roof and chimney beside a retaining wall

Gates and wall toppers for tighter lots

Every fence style ships with a matching gate, walk-width through driveway-width, framed with extra support so it stays square over years of use and ready for an automation kit later, though we don’t supply the motor itself. On a lot that already has a block or masonry wall, a vinyl or aluminum topper adds height and screening without tearing that wall down, a useful option on Cerritos’s smaller, closer-set parcels.

Services we offer in Cerritos

Vinyl covers picket fencing, privacy and semi-privacy panels, ranch-style rail, pool enclosures, lattice and wall toppers, plus custom acrylic-topped runs in 10 or more colors. Aluminum brings panels in privacy and semi-privacy, picket runs, and single, driveway or rolling gates, each powder coated white, black or wood grain.

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Getting a real number for your Cerritos fence

Six things move the number on a Cerritos quote: footage, material, gate count and width, whether the ground needs racking for a slope, and whether an old chain-link fence has to come out first. A free, no-obligation site visit turns that list into one written figure, not a phone guess.

Warranty backing every job

Vinyl carries a transferable limited lifetime warranty, and our aluminum comes with 20 years on the material, 10 on the coating and 2 on the steel components. PVAF adds its own 5-year workmanship warranty on top of either material, so the labor is covered as well as the parts.

Color at Ten Feet

Neighbors sit close on lots this size, so the fence lands in your sightline from the kitchen window and in theirs from the patio. Tone counts for more at ten feet than at fifty. Vinyl offers the broad range, metal a short one.

Vinyl Face by Face

Standing this close you read the face, not just the shade. Four plain solids stay unbroken across a panel. Six smooth grains carry a sawn board look, Dark Walnut for one. Four textured blends run coarser. Color sits inside the vinyl.

  • 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.

Metal Keeps It Short

Four is the whole number here. Panels and pickets get three of them, black and white plus a grain look. On a contoured slat, matte black is all there is. Custom is not on the menu. Dry powder, then heat, bonds the finish into the metal.

  • 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.

Height Where Space Is Tight

Small yards punish a wrong number: too tall and the space closes in, too low and the screen does nothing. Spans by style are all the table holds. Your purpose, your ground and the cap the city sets decide the rest.

Fence style Min Max
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

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Fencing Guide for Cerritos, California

A small, dense Gateway city

Cerritos incorporated on April 24, 1956, originally as the City of Dairy Valley before residents renamed it Cerritos in 1959. It’s a compact city, just 8.86 square miles, part of the Gateway Cities region in southeast Los Angeles County and roughly equidistant from downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach and Santa Ana across the Orange County line.

Neighboring cities include Artesia, Bellflower, Cypress, La Mirada, Lakewood, Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs. That density means Cerritos lots tend to run smaller and closer together than in the county’s more spread-out suburbs, which puts extra weight on getting a fence line and setback exactly right.

Cerritos' civic arts complex anchors the surrounding city blocks in this high aerial landmark view

Cerritos’s low-height, no-chain-link code

The rule that shapes the most front yards here: within 5 feet of the property line, a fence tops out at 30 inches, and a permit is required above that height. Pull the fence back 5 feet or more and a decorative style can reach 5 feet.

Chain link is prohibited citywide, so vinyl or aluminum is the practical swap for anyone replacing an older chain-link run. [NEEDS-DATA: side and rear yard height limits for individual residential lots aren’t published separately from the subdivision-wall standard] so verify the current figure directly with Cerritos Community Development before locking in your fence plan.

HOA rules can add another layer

Many Cerritos neighborhoods carry their own HOA on top of the municipal code. Where CC&Rs set a tighter number than the city allows, the association’s rule is the one that actually governs your project, so it pays to pull both documents before ordering material.

Population49,578
CountyLos Angeles County
ZIP Code90701-90703
Permit Above30 in

Getting a New Fence Built in Cerritos

Step by Step

A Cerritos fence moves through four fixed stages, starting with a site visit that checks your setback against the city’s 30-inch front rule and ending with a signed warranty handed to you at the finished, cleaned-up job.

The sequence never changes, only the yard does, so you always know exactly what happens next and when.

  1. Free Estimate Visit

    Step one is a walkthrough to confirm your setback against the 30-inch rule, priced on the spot, in writing.

  2. Everything in Writing

    From there, a signed agreement covers material, color, exact height and every gate, so scope can’t drift.

  3. Clean, Careful Install

    Build day means pulling any old chain link first, setting posts, hanging panels square, clearing debris.

  4. Warranty in Writing

    You close out with vinyl’s lifetime term or aluminum’s 20/10/2 schedule, stacked with our 5-year workmanship coverage.

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Fence Questions Cerritos Homeowners Ask Us

The permit threshold, the citywide chain-link ban and the HOA layer come up on nearly every Cerritos call, so here are straight answers before you plan your fence: the 30-inch front limit, what actually triggers a permit, and how the two codes stack together.

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Within 5 feet of the front property line, Cerritos caps a fence at 30 inches. Set it back 5 feet or more from the property line and a decorative style can run up to 5 feet.

That low first band is why open picket and rail styles are common on Cerritos front yards.

Yes, above 30 inches.

Cerritos requires a permit for any fence taller than 30 inches, a lower threshold than most neighboring cities, so it’s worth confirming your planned height with the Cerritos Community Development Department before ordering material.

No. Cerritos prohibits chain link fencing citywide under its municipal code. Vinyl and aluminum are the two straightforward replacements, and neither needs the upkeep chain link does over time.

The published code sets subdivision wall standards between 6 feet 6 inches and 8 feet, but a separate figure for individual residential side and rear lots isn’t published in full.

Verify your specific limit with the Cerritos Community Development Department before design work starts.

It can. Many Cerritos communities carry an HOA on top of the city code, and CC&Rs are allowed to set stricter limits than the municipal rule. Check both, since whichever is stricter is the one that applies.

State law sets the standard statewide: 60 inches minimum in height, no more than 2 inches of clearance at the bottom, no gaps over 4 inches, and a gate that self-closes and self-latches outward.

Vinyl qualifies as an approved non-climbable barrier material under that code.

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