What a Wood Fence Job in Naples Manor Actually Entails and What It Costs
A wood fence installation in Naples Manor typically runs $3,500 to $9,000 and takes our crew three to five working days from the first post hole to the final walkthrough. That range covers a standard lot - roughly 150 to 220 linear feet of 6-foot pressure-treated pine dog-ear pickets with two gates. The work sequence moves fast once we pull the county permit, but the upfront site survey and utility locate usually add three to five business days before we break ground. Call (844) 638-7249 when you’re ready to get an exact number for your property - estimates are free and come in writing with a fixed price.
How We Build a Wood Fence Here: The Stage-by-Stage Reality
Nobody wants a crew that shows up and figures it out as they go. Here’s the sequence we follow on wood fence projects across Naples Manor, start to finish.
Stage 1: Site Walk and Utility Locate (Days 1-3). We flag your property lines against the Collier County plat records and mark the fence path. While we do that, we call 811 to have underground utilities marked - gas, electric, water, cable. In Naples Manor, where many homes still have shallow-buried galvanized water services from the original 1960s construction, skipping this step is not an option. You tell us where you want the gates, how wide each needs to be, and whether you want the “good side” facing in or out. That decision alone shapes how we frame every section.
Stage 2: County Permit Pull (Days 2-6, runs parallel). Most wood fence jobs in unincorporated Collier County need a fence permit with a site plan showing the fence location relative to setbacks and easements. We handle the filing through the county building department. Simple straight-line jobs clear fast. If your fence sits along a platted drainage or utility easement - common in the older Naples Manor grid - the review takes a few extra days and may require a notarized acknowledgment. We’ll tell you at the estimate visit exactly what your lot triggers.
Stage 3: Post Holes and Set (Day 1 of physical work). We dig post holes to 36 inches minimum - deeper if we hit the water table early, which happens on a lot of Naples Manor lots after a heavy rain. Each hole gets six inches of gravel at the bottom for drainage, then the post goes in, gets plumbed, and gets set in concrete. We don’t backfill with dirt. The posts cure overnight. That’s non-negotiable for a fence that stays straight through Florida wet-dry cycles.
Stage 4: Frame, Pickets, and Gate Hardware (Days 2-3). Stringers go in, every picket gets fastened with coated deck screws - not nails, which back out in humidity - and the gates get hung on galvanized steel post hinges with a diagonal brace cut into the frame. This is the stage where the profile of your fence actually shows up: shadowbox or board-on-board for light and air, or tight-butted dog-ear for full privacy. By the end of day 3, the fence stands. Gates open and close. The line is straight, and the top rail sits level even if the ground doesn’t.
Stage 5: Stain/Seal (Day 4-5, if selected) and Final Walkthrough. If you choose a stain or sealant - we recommend it in this climate - we spray-apply it once the wood has had at least 48 hours to dry. Then we walk the entire line with you, check every gate latch and every picket, and hand you the written workmanship warranty. You sign off. The job’s done.
The Options You’ll Choose Between on a Wood Fence
Every wood fence in Naples Manor starts with a handful of decisions that change the look, the lifespan, and the price. Here are the ones that matter most.
- Pressure-treated pine vs. cedar. Treated pine is the workhorse - $13 to $18 per linear foot installed, good for 15 to 20 years with stain maintenance, and what we install on nine out of ten Naples Manor jobs. Cedar runs $22 to $30 per foot installed. It’s lighter, naturally rot-resistant, and ages to a silver-gray if left unsealed. It also costs more and dents more easily. Most homeowners here choose pine and put the savings into a good penetrating stain.
- Privacy style: dog-ear, board-on-board, or shadowbox. Standard 6-foot pressure-treated dog-ear pickets with a tight butt - that’s the most common fence in Naples Manor, and it blocks the most sightline for the dollar. Board-on-board gives you full visual coverage with a finished look on both sides but takes more material. Shadowbox alternates pickets on each side of the rail, so you get airflow and light while still screening the view - ideal if you face a side street and don’t want a solid wall.
- Gate count and width. Every gate adds $300 to $600 to a job depending on width and whether it’s a walk gate or a double drive gate. In Naples Manor’s tighter side-yard setbacks, a 4-foot walk gate often needs to be custom-framed to fit between the house corner and the property line. We measure and build it to suit.
- Stain or seal - and when. An oil-based penetrating stain in a cedar-tone or walnut color runs roughly $4 to $7 per linear foot applied. It buys you an extra five to eight years before the wood starts checking and graying. We can apply it immediately on cedar or wait a few weeks on pressure-treated pine to let the preservative dry out enough to accept the stain.
- Rot board at the base. A pressure-treated 2×6 laid horizontally along the bottom of the fence, with pickets resting on top of it, keeps the picket ends from wicking groundwater. In Naples Manor’s wet-season standing-water conditions, a rot board is probably the single smartest upgrade you can make - it adds roughly $8 to $12 per linear foot and means we replace a board in 15 years instead of an entire section of pickets.
What a Wood Fence Costs in Naples Manor, FL
A wood fence in Naples Manor runs $3,500 to $9,000 for a typical residential lot. Smaller jobs - say a 60-foot side-yard run with one walk gate - land at the low end. A full perimeter on a quarter-acre corner lot with double drive gates, a stain coat, and a rot board can push past $9,000 fast.
What dictates where your number lands: First, linear footage - that’s the biggest lever, no surprise. Second, the number and width of gates; a 12-foot double drive gate needs heavier posts and a steel-reinforced bottom rail, which adds real material cost. Third, the style choice - shadowbox uses roughly 30% more pickets than a single-sided dog-ear run. Fourth, access. In Naples Manor’s tight zero-lot-line setups, if we can’t get a skid steer into the yard, post holes get hand-dug or augered, which adds labor hours. Fifth, the ground itself. When we hit saturated sandy clay and the water table sits at 18 inches, we pour more concrete per hole and spend more time setting and bracing - that’s real time and real material.
Every estimate we give you is a written, line-item quote. The price you see is the price you pay - no change orders for something we should have caught on the walkthrough. What’s included: all materials, digging and concrete, gate hardware, job-site cleanup, and the county permit fee. What’s typically not included unless we call it out: stain or sealant application, stump grinding or removal of an old fence (we line-item that separately), and any custom metalwork beyond standard galvanized hinges and latches. We’ll walk you through every dollar before you sign.
What Naples Manor Homes Specifically Do to This Job
Naples Manor sits in an unincorporated pocket of Collier County, so every wood fence we install here runs through the Collier County Building Department - not City of Naples permitting. That means a different fee schedule, a different inspection queue, and a specific setback requirement tied to county zoning rather than city code. We pull these permits routinely and know exactly what the county plan reviewer expects on a fence site plan. When your property backs up to a platted drainage swale - and a lot of the 1950s-1970s concrete-block homes here do - the county often requires the fence to sit a full five feet back from the easement edge, not the property line. We flag that at the estimate visit so you’re not surprised.
The housing stock itself changes how we work. Most Naples Manor lots are slab-on-grade with low-pitched roofs on compact rectangular parcels, many built before modern Florida Building Code wind-load standards. That means we’re setting posts near shallow footings and aging underground drain lines, often in saturated soil during the June-through-September rainy season. Wet-season installs here require extra gravel at every post base and concrete that gets a longer cure before we hang the weight of a gate - otherwise you get sag within the first two years. It’s not a dealbreaker, but it’s real, and we schedule around it. At least a third of the wood fence jobs we do in Naples Manor involve removing a rusted-out chain-link fence installed in the 1980s, and occasionally we find the old posts set in a skim of concrete that has to be broken out before we can drill new holes - that’s part of the price on almost every teardown-and-replace we quote here in the neighborhood.
Serving Naples Manor, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
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Frequently Asked - Wood Fence in Naples Manor
Yes, almost always. Because Naples Manor is unincorporated Collier County, fence permits run through the county building department. A typical wood fence under six feet tall needs a zoning clearance and a site plan showing setbacks, easements, and the proposed fence location. We pull the permit as part of the job and build the cost into your estimate. If you’re replacing an existing fence in the same footprint, the process is faster, but the county still wants a record of it.
A pressure-treated pine fence with a good oil-based stain and a rot board at the base will give you 15 to 20 years here before the posts or pickets need serious attention. Without stain and without a rot board, expect to start replacing sections in 10 to 12 years. The real enemy in Naples Manor isn’t sun - it’s ground moisture against the cut ends of pickets and posts, especially during the June-September rainy season when the water table sits just inches below the surface.
We can match the style, the height, and the picket profile exactly. Color match on stain is trickier - a fence that’s been in the sun for three years has faded, and a fresh stain coat won’t look identical on day one, though it will blend within a season. If you’re extending a fence along a side yard or replacing one section, we’ll sample a small test area before staining the full run so you see what you’re getting.
It shouldn’t, and on our jobs it doesn’t, unless you ask us to add something outside the original scope - like extending the fence 20 feet further or adding a gate we didn’t quote. The only real wild card in Naples Manor is discovering an old concrete footer or a buried slab of construction debris when we’re digging post holes. If we hit something that requires extra demolition time, we’ll show you what we found, tell you what it costs to remove, and you decide before we do it. No surprises.
Every wood fence we build in Naples Manor is covered by our 730-Day Done Right Promise - if it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s two full years on workmanship, one of the longest guarantees you’ll find in residential fence construction. The lumber itself carries the manufacturer’s warranty against defect, and we stand behind every post we set and every gate we hang. If a gate sags or a post shifts within that window, you call us, a live person answers - 24/7, no voicemail black hole - and we send a crew to fix it.
Get a Wood Fence Estimate in Naples Manor
If you’re ready to price a wood fence for your Naples Manor property, the next step is simple. Call (844) 638-7249 and we’ll schedule a free on-site walkthrough. One of our background-checked, uniformed technicians will come out, measure the run, talk through the options that make sense for your lot, and hand you a written fixed-price quote before leaving. No pressure, no vague numbers, no “we’ll get back to you.” A live person answers the phone right now. If a wood fence is part of a larger plan going on at your home - maybe tied into a new Paver Driveways in Naples Manor project or replacing a driveway at the same time - we can scope and quote the whole thing together so the site work happens in one sequence. A lot of homeowners doing a full exterior refresh combine the fence with Concrete Driveways & Concrete Work in Naples Manor so the hardscape and the fence line come together cleanly. If the scope is bigger and you’re already planning a full Fence Installation in Naples Manor, this wood fence estimate fits right into that broader conversation - we do the whole spectrum under one roof. Our Fence Installation crew works across the full Naples Manor service area and we know the county permit process inside and out. Built to last, backed in writing.
Written by Derek Hollenbeck, Owner at Groundwork Construction Co., providing upfront pricing and the 730-Day Done Right Promise to homeowners across Southwest Florida.