About Vista Fence LLC
Vista Fence LLC is a fence and gate contractor for Greater Seattle. We build new fences, repair and replace old ones, and hang gates for houses, townhomes, multifamily buildings and businesses from Everett to Tacoma.
This page explains how we work and how to check us out before you let anyone dig a post hole on your property.
What We Do
Most of our work is residential: backyard privacy fences, front-yard picket and ornamental fences, replacing fences that have reached the end of their life, and the gates that go in them. We also build commercial fencing — chain link and ornamental steel for business sites, storage yards and apartment buildings.
We work in cedar and other wood, vinyl, composite, aluminum, ornamental steel and chain link, so the recommendation follows the yard and the budget rather than whatever we happen to stock.
How We Work
Prices in the open
Our installed rates are in the fence cost calculator on this site, so you can see a realistic range before you ever talk to us.
Measured before quoted
A firm price for a new fence comes after we have walked and measured the line, checked the slope and access, and looked at any fence that has to come out.
Itemized in writing
Footage, height, material, posts, gates, removal and haul-away each get their own line, so two quotes can be compared honestly.
Rules checked first
Fence height, setbacks and permits differ from city to city. We check the rules for your address — see fence height rules by city — and have utilities located through 811 before digging.
Repair when repair is enough
If a few posts and boards will give the fence years more life, that is what we will quote. The repair vs replacement guide shows how we decide.
Local conditions
Wet winters, glacial hardpan, clay, steep lots and critical-area buffers shape how posts are set and which materials last. The materials-for-Seattle-weather guide covers the details.
Registration, Bond and Insurance
In Washington, anyone who builds or repairs fences for a customer must be registered as a contractor with the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I). Registration requires a contractor bond and general liability insurance, and the registration number has to appear in the contractor’s advertising.
Our registration number is printed at the foot of every page of this site and on the contact page. You can look it up — and look up any other contractor you are considering — in L&I’s Verify a Contractor tool, which shows whether the registration is active, the bond and insurance on file, and any claims against the bond.
Checking takes two minutes and is worth doing for every bid you get, not just ours.
Where We Work
Seattle and the cities around it. Each city page covers that city’s fence rules and the lots we usually see there.