Palisades Hammond Fence: Fence installation in Hammond, LA
Most fences around Hammond don't fail at the boards. They fail at the posts, where ground that stays wet for months softens the soil, rots wood at the grade line and lets a summer storm push a whole run over. Palisades Hammond Fence, a fence company in Hammond, LA, plans every fence line from the posts up: the depth and footing that suit the soil, the height and material the city allows on that part of the lot, and a permit in hand before anyone calls 811 and starts digging.
Required before the first post goes in; the city approves the line from a survey or parcel map
Front yard
4 ft maximum in Hammond, and no chain link or woven wire in front of the house
Behind the house
Solid fences up to 8 ft, measured from the lower side
Corner lots
Nothing over 3 ft within 30 ft of an intersection
Before digging
Louisiana 811 notice 48 to 120 hours ahead, weekends and holidays excluded
Boundary fences
Presumed common to both neighbors under Civil Code article 685
What usually starts the call
A storm laid the fence over
When a whole run leans the same way after a blow, the posts moved in soft ground. Resetting the panels without fixing the footings puts it back on the ground in the next storm. Photograph the damage before anything is moved if an insurance claim is likely.
Posts are rotting at the ground
Pine posts set in concrete that holds water rot just above and just below grade, often years before the boards look old. A post that rocks when you push it at shoulder height is the first sign, and it decides whether this is a repair or a rebuild.
A new house with an open yard
New construction around Ponchatoula and Hammond often closes with no fence, a drainage swale along the back and a subdivision rule about height and style. The fence line has to respect the servitude, the swale and the building restrictions before it can be priced.
A dog, a pool or livestock to contain
Containment changes the design: a dog that digs needs a different bottom edge than one that jumps, a pool barrier has closing and latching rules, and horses need visible, smooth fencing with braced corners rather than a residential panel.
Fence installation and repair, by line
Every service below is available in Hammond and the towns on the routes above. Each one links to its own page with the full detail.
A six-foot pine privacy fence is the most common fence around Hammond, and Palisades Hammond Fence installs it in dog-ear, board-on-board, picket and horizontal styles. How long it lasts is decided underground.
9 in or lessseasonal water table depth at half the soil points sampled around Hammond
Why posts rot here
Soils across Tangipahoa hold a seasonal water table within about a foot of the surface. A post in a shallow hole with a concrete collar sits in a cup of water for much of the year and rots at the grade line.
How the posts are set
Posts are sized for the panel and gate loads and set deep enough to resist wind on a solid face. Footings shed water away from the wood, and ground-contact posts, coated fasteners and a gap under the boards keep the fence out of standing water.
Which style fits
Board-on-board costs more but stays private as the boards shrink. Horizontal designs need shorter spans or a stiffer rail so they don't sag. Picket is the usual front-yard choice, where Hammond caps fences at 4 ft.
Cedar and cypress
Cedar boards resist decay better than pine but usually still ride on treated pine or steel posts. Cypress heartwood resists rot well; its price follows the grade and board width available locally.
Your estimate covers the style, the post plan for your soil and what the City of Hammond permit drawing needs to show, starting from the survey or parcel map the city asks for.
Vinyl does not rot and termites have nothing to eat, which makes it a strong fit for wet back lots and shaded side yards. Palisades Hammond Fence installs vinyl privacy, semi-privacy and picket systems.
Solid panel or open profile?
Solid privacy panel
A hollow panel that catches the full force of the wind, so the end, corner and gate posts get aluminum or steel stiffeners and larger concrete footings, and long bottom rails get internal reinforcement.
Semi-privacy or picket
Gaps let the wind through and load the posts less, at the cost of some privacy. An open profile also suits a side or back yard where the neighbors want light through the line.
Room to move
Vinyl expands and contracts more than wood. Rails need the clearance in the post the manufacturer specifies; set too tight, they bow on a hot August afternoon.
Gates and color
A vinyl gate wider than about four feet needs a steel frame or it will sag. White and tan fade less than darker colors in Louisiana sun.
Height rules
Hammond's front-yard material list names wood, metal and masonry, not vinyl, so a vinyl fence in front of the house is confirmed with the Building Department first. Behind the front of the house, vinyl can go up to 8 ft where your subdivision restrictions allow it.
The estimate covers the profile, the color, the post reinforcement and the gate widths, and whether a solid face or an open profile suits how exposed your yard is to storm wind.
Chain link is the lowest-cost way to enclose a big back yard, a dog run or a commercial lot, and it is what most people here mean by "hurricane fence". Palisades Hammond Fence installs galvanized and black vinyl-coated chain link for homes and businesses.
Why it stands in storms
Wind blows through the mesh, so a well-built chain link fence usually stays up in a storm that flattens a solid privacy fence next door.
Where it's allowed
Hammond doesn't allow chain link or other woven wire beyond the front building line of the house. Behind the house it can go up to 8 ft.
Coated or galvanized
Black vinyl-coated chain link blends into a yard and resists rust longer. Plain galvanized costs less and suits back lots, dog runs and fields.
What a well-built run has
Heavier terminal posts at ends, corners and gates, set in concrete
A top rail or tension wire that keeps the line straight
Fabric stretched tight with tension bands and a stretcher bar, so it doesn't belly when a dog leans on it
Heavier-gauge wire and a vinyl coating where our humidity would rust light galvanized mesh
Privacy slats or a bottom tension wire for dogs that dig, where the yard needs them
Your estimate covers the height, the wire gauge, the coating and the gate sizes.
Aluminum $25 to $55 per foot; steel and iron $30 to $100+
Ornamental metal is the usual answer for a front yard, a pool or a boundary without a wall. Palisades Hammond Fence installs powder-coated aluminum, steel and wrought iron fence and matching gates.
Aluminum
Steel and wrought iron
Rust
Never rusts
The coating has to be kept up, because humidity finds every scratch
Weight
Light
Heavy and stronger
Best for
Most homes, front yards and pools
Driveways, estates and security fencing
Front yards in Hammond
Metal fences are allowed in front yards up to 4 ft, but chain link is not. The Hyer-Cate overlay and the Historic District add their own review.
Posts carry the system
Posts are set plumb in concrete footings sized for the panel weight, and racked or stepped panels follow a sloped yard instead of leaving a gap underneath.
Iron near the house
Steel and true wrought iron suit driveways and estate frontages where weight and strength matter. Touching up scratches and keeping mulch and sprinkler water off the bottom rail keeps rust from starting at the posts.
Pool fences
Barrier height, gaps under and between pickets, self-closing and self-latching gates that swing away from the pool, and latch height follow the pool barrier rules in the code Louisiana adopts, confirmed for your address.
The estimate covers the style, the height, the color and the gates, and for a pool, how the barrier layout and gate hardware fit the rules for your address.
A gate that drags, won't latch or sags until it scrapes the concrete is usually failing at its post and frame, not its hinges. Palisades Hammond Fence installs walk gates, double drive gates, sliding gates and automatic openers, and repairs gates that have dropped.
Sized to what goes through
Walk gates are sized to what passes through them: a mower, a wheelbarrow, the trash cans. The wider the leaf, the more its frame and hinge post have to carry.
The hinge post
It carries the whole leaf cantilevered off one side, so it needs to be heavier and deeper than a line post, with a footing that won't rotate in wet ground.
The frame
Wide wood gates need a steel frame or a diagonal brace running from the bottom hinge corner up to the latch side. Double gates need a drop rod and a center stop so the wind can't swing them open.
Swing or slide
A swing gate needs a clear arc on a driveway that may rise toward the house. A sliding or cantilever gate needs runback space along the fence beside the opening.
Openers
Automatic openers add power, a control method and safety equipment against entrapment, which the installation has to include.
Your estimate lists the gate, the posts, the hardware and any opener as separate items.
North toward Independence, Amite and Loranger and out toward Folsom, fences are measured in acres. Palisades Hammond Fence installs field fence, barbed wire, board and pipe fencing for pasture and horses, and split rail for rural boundaries.
Cattle or horses?
Cattle and general pasture
Field fence or barbed wire on braced corners, with post spacing and footings adjusted for wet bottomland, ditches and creek crossings.
Horses
Visible board or rail, or no-climb mesh with small openings, smooth surfaces with no protruding fasteners, and gate latches set out of a horse's reach.
Corners do the work
Farm fence works under tension. Braced H-assemblies at every corner, end and gate keep woven wire tight for years; without them the line posts lean in and the wire sags within a season.
Wet ground and gaps
Low spots, ditches and creek crossings get their own post spacing and bracing, and fence-to-ground gaps stay tight where horses or calves could roll or reach under.
Pipe and split rail
Pipe fence is the heavy-duty option for pens and entrances. Split rail marks a boundary or frames an entrance without being asked to hold stock.
Farm work is priced from the layout: the length, the corners, the gates, the terrain and the material. The estimate walks the line with you, including tractor access and the gates you'll actually drive through.
A leaning section, a run the wind took down or a few rotted posts don't always mean a new fence. Palisades Hammond Fence repairs wood, vinyl, chain link and metal fences, replaces posts and panels, and rebuilds storm-damaged runs.
Find what failed
If one or two posts rotted at the grade line and the rest are sound, those posts are pulled, the old concrete removed and new posts set so the panels go back up.
When repair stops making sense
If most posts on a run are soft, replacing two only moves the failure to the next weak one, and the estimate will say so. A run that went over because its posts were shallow will go over again unless the footings change.
Matching the old fence
Weathered pine won't match new boards for a season or two, and older vinyl or chain link may not be made anymore. The estimate says what can be matched before work starts.
When it can't wait
Emergency fence repair is offered when a fence is down across a drive, a pool barrier is open or animals can get out. The line is made safe first and the permanent repair planned after, with no arrival time promised.
After a storm
Photograph the damage before anything is moved
Check your homeowners policy, since fence coverage depends on the cause
On a shared boundary fence, remember Louisiana treats the fence as common to both neighbors, which affects who pays
The estimate separates what can be saved from what can't, so you can choose between a repair now and a replacement later.
When posts are failing along most of a run, replacement costs less over the next ten years than repeated repairs. Palisades Hammond Fence removes the old fence and builds the new one on the same line or a corrected one.
$2 to $8 per foottypical tear-out and haul-away of an old fence
Out with the old
Old posts often sit in concrete plugs that have to be broken out, or the new posts move off the old holes. Posts, concrete and panels are hauled away.
Keep the markers
Property markers along the line are found and left in place. An old fence is not proof of the boundary, so a fence that was off the line is corrected using the survey or parcel map the City of Hammond asks for.
Change what failed
A rotted pine fence can come back as pine with a better post plan, or as vinyl, aluminum or board-on-board. A gate that always dragged gets the post and frame the old one lacked.
Planned around the yard
Sequence matters when a yard holds dogs or a pool. The estimate shows how long the line stays open between tear-out and the new panels, and the posts get time to cure before panels and gates hang.
The estimate covers tear-out and disposal, the new fence, the gates and the permit, so nothing is left for a second visit.
Businesses, churches, schools, apartment owners and contractors around Hammond need fencing for security, screening and code. Palisades Hammond Fence installs commercial chain link, ornamental steel, aluminum and wood or vinyl screening, with gates sized for vehicles.
Hammond commercial rule
What it means
Open wire fences in commercial and industrial districts
Up to 10 ft
Business backing onto homes
The Building Official can require a 6 to 8 ft solid buffer fence
Barbed wire
Restricted near residential uses
Fence permit
$50 commercial fee
State licensing
A commercial license for jobs of $50,000 or more
Built for traffic
Thicker-wall posts, heavier fabric, vehicle gates with drop rods and stops, and layouts that keep sight lines clear where driveways meet the street.
Screening and frontage
Screening around dumpsters and equipment yards needs a solid face with posts sized for wind. Many sites pair ornamental steel along the frontage with chain link along the sides and back.
Security choices
Security fencing usually means taller chain link or ornamental steel with tight picket spacing, lockable gates and a bottom edge that can't be lifted. Where barbed wire is restricted, height and fabric do the work instead.
The estimate covers the specification, the permit and a schedule built around your hours, so gates and access stay open while the old fence comes out and the new one goes in.
Installed price ranges for the three most common fences, per linear foot. They are typical ranges for the area, not quotes, and your price depends on the yard.
Fence
Per linear foot
What it covers
Wood privacy, 6 ft pine
$15 to $45
Posts, rails, pickets and labor on a normal lot
Vinyl privacy
$20 to $60
Posts, panels, post stiffeners where needed and labor
Chain link, residential
$10 to $30
Framework, fabric, tension hardware and labor
What moves the price: total length, height, gates, tear-out of an old fence, slope, roots and wet ground, the permit, and post upgrades for wind. Open the cost estimator →Fence cost guide →
Pine, cedar, vinyl or aluminum in a wet climate
Pine (pressure-treated)
Cedar
Vinyl
Aluminum
Wet ground and rot
Posts rot at grade unless set and drained well
More rot-resistant boards; posts usually still pine or steel
Does not rot; posts need reinforced footings
Does not rot or rust
Termites
Treated wood resists; cut ends and older posts are exposed
48 in barrierMinimum barrier height in the federal safety guidelines Louisiana's codes follow
A pool barrier has to stop a small child: tall enough, with no gaps, and gates that close and latch on their own.
Louisiana's state construction code adopts the 2021 International Residential Code with no change to its pool section, which follows federal safety guidelines.
No opening may pass a 4 inch sphere, and gates swing outward, away from the water, then close and latch themselves.
A latch release lower than 54 inches goes on the pool side, at least 3 inches below the top of the gate.
Heavy rain runoff can wash out the bottom gap, so check it after storms. Aluminum barrier typically runs $25 to $55 per foot before gate hardware.
Ditches, servitudes and water that has to keep moving
12 of 25 pointsSampled Hammond points FEMA maps place in a special flood hazard area
A fence near a ditch or servitude is judged by one test: whether it interferes with the water and the access.
Hammond plats carry a standard note: no fence within or over a servitude in a way that interferes with its purpose.
A fence that leaves the ditch flowing and reachable for cleaning may be tolerated, and a wide gate at the access point helps.
A ditch between two lots is presumed common under Civil Code article 686, and both owners maintain it.
Lower land must receive water flowing naturally from higher ground, so a solid fence boarded to the dirt across a slope can dam it; flood-zone lines favor open designs.
About 64 in of rainRainfall on poorly drained silt loam that national lifespan averages never measure
Published fence lifespans are national averages, and a wood fence is only as old as its weakest post at the grade line.
None is measured here: about 64 inches of rain, a 66.8 F mean temperature and 86 days a year at or above 90 F.
Graying and fine surface checks come from sunlight; they are weathering, not structural failure.
Time for decisions, not upkeep: a screwdriver sinks into several posts at the dirt, or rails are soft or split at the posts along a whole run.
A gate that keeps sagging after the hinges are tightened is another sign. Ground-contact posts and footings that shed water add more years than any finish.
$20 to $60 / ft vinylTypical 6 ft vinyl privacy, against $15 to $45 for pine
The two fail in different places: pine at the posts in the ground, vinyl at its rails, pickets and footings.
Pine loses its posts first, to rot and termites around the ground line, while its boards shrink, cup and gray above.
Vinyl gives the damp nothing to work on, but rails slip from post routes in storm wind, pickets crack under limbs and hollow posts lean when footings move.
Repairs differ too: any lumber yard can match a pine board the same week.
A vinyl panel has to come from the same product line, so keep the profile and color with the house papers.
Fencing for jumpers, diggers, climbers and small dogs
About 6 ft for jumpersJumper height, allowed in Hammond only behind the house's front line
Choose the fence by how the dog gets out: over, under, up or through.
Hammond caps the front yard at 4 ft, so a jumper's 6 ft fence belongs behind the front line of the house.
Diggers need a closed bottom, since silt loam stays soft for days after rain; a galvanized wire apron inside or a ground-contact kickboard beats extra height.
Climbers use chain link diamonds and wood rails as ladders, so the smooth board face goes toward the dog.
Small dogs slip through picket gaps and under gates; aluminum puppy pickets close the bottom, and a sagged gate leaves a gap no height fixes.
12 ft gate, 12 ft arcArc a 12 ft leaf sweeps; two 6 ft leaves halve it
A swing leaf sweeps a quarter circle as deep as it is wide; a sliding gate needs a straight runback instead.
A drive that rises from the gate line cuts the swing arc short.
A sliding gate ignores the grade across the opening, but its runback beside the opening must be at least as long as the opening.
A track gate rides a rail across the drive that gravel, mud and standing water foul; a cantilever hangs on rollers beside the opening, clear of the drive.
Inside Hammond, a solid gate and its columns also have to stay out of the driveway sight triangle.
$150 to $600What a standard walk gate typically adds, installed
A gate is priced part by part, and a good quote lists each part as its own line.
A 4 ft wood gate on the fence's own posts, with simple hinges and a gravity latch, sits at the low end.
Wider leaves, steel or aluminum frames, heavier posts and self-closing or pool-rated latches push the price up.
Wider drive, sliding and automatic gates have no dependable local range; their parts are width, frame and bracing, wet-ground hinge posts, and drop rod or rollers.
An opener adds the operator, a trenched power run, access controls and safety devices built to UL 325.
Hammond and the towns within about 25 miles, along four routes out of the I-55 and I-12 junction. Fence rules are set by the city where one applies, otherwise by the parish.
LineTownsFence rules
HomeHammond · Ponchatoula · Robert · Loranger · NatalbanyHammond: city fence permit, $10 residential. Elsewhere: confirmed per address
NorthTickfaw · Independence · Amite · RoselandConfirmed per address
EastCovington · Mandeville · Madisonville · Abita Springs · Folsom Covington page →Mandeville page →Covington: city fence permit, $5. Mandeville and others: confirmed per address
WestAlbany · Holden · Springfield · Killian · Livingston · WalkerConfirmed per address
Yes. Inside the City of Hammond, a Building Department fence permit is required before the fence goes in, and the city approves the design and location from a survey or parcel map.
The residential fee is $10 and the commercial fee $50, and starting without a permit doubles it.
Outside city limits the parish or town sets the rule; many Hammond or Ponchatoula mailing addresses sit outside, so first confirm which government the lot is in.
Covington charges $5 and wants a drawing showing heights, property lines, streets, building footprints and a north arrow.
In the Hammond Historic District, a fence facing a street or alley also goes to the Historic District Commission.
In front of the house, 4 ft, and it must be wood, metal or masonry rather than chain link or barbed wire. From the front of the house back, solid fences can go up to 8 ft. Within 30 ft of a street intersection nothing may stand more than 3 ft high, and subdivision restrictions can be stricter than the city code.
How deep should fence posts be in wet clay?
There isn't one depth for every fence. It depends on fence height, how solid the face is, gate loads and the soil, which around Hammond stays wet near the surface much of the year.
Deeper footings, drainage gravel and concrete shaped to shed water from wood posts do more here than any single number.
Frost doesn't set depth, since Hammond averages about 31 brief freezing nights a year; water does, with the seasonal water table 13 to 69 cm down where sampled.
When a hole fills, it is bailed, a few inches of crushed stone go in, the post is braced plumb and concrete is placed from the bottom up.
The concrete is crowned above grade, and the post cures before rails or gates load it.
Is a fence on the property line shared with my neighbor?
Usually. Under Louisiana Civil Code article 685, a boundary fence is presumed common to both owners unless shown otherwise, and where both lots are enclosed a neighbor can be required to help build and repair it.
An old fence is not proof of where the line is; a survey or the recorded markers settle that.
The Civil Code ties ownership to location, not to which face points out; a fence wholly inside one lot is ordinarily that owner's.
Building a few inches inside your own line keeps the fence yours but leaves a strip to maintain.
A fence doesn't become the line after ten years: ten-year acquisitive prescription needs good faith and a recorded just title, and without title it takes thirty.
Yes. Louisiana law treats augering post holes as excavation, so the utility notification center has to be notified at least 48 hours and no more than 120 hours before digging, not counting weekends and holidays. Lines are marked before any holes are dug.
Will homeowners insurance pay for a fence damaged in a storm?
It depends on the policy and the cause. Fences are usually covered under other structures for named perils such as wind or a falling tree, subject to the deductible, but not for rot or wear.
Photograph the damage before anything is moved, keep a broken post, and ask your insurer before repairs begin; clean breaks through sound wood support a sudden-loss claim.
According to the Louisiana Department of Insurance, a neighbor's healthy tree falling on your fence is generally your own insurer's to pay.
A dead or weakened tree the owner should have known about points to theirs, and flooding needs a separate flood policy.
Check for a separate wind or named-storm deductible; insurers have up to 30 days to pay after satisfactory proof of loss.
Typical installed ranges run about $15 to $45 per foot for a 6 ft pine privacy fence, $20 to $60 for vinyl privacy and $10 to $30 for residential chain link.
Aluminum runs about $25 to $55 per foot and steel or iron $30 to $100 or more.
A walk gate typically adds $150 to $600, tearing out an old fence $2 to $8 per foot, and the Hammond permit $10.
Gates, tear-out, slopes, wet ground and post upgrades for wind move the price; where a hole fills with water before concrete, wet-ground methods show up.
The cost tool gives a figure for your length and options without a phone call.
Push each post at shoulder height. If only a few move, replace those posts; if most move or are soft at the ground, replacement costs less over time. A full rebuild inside Hammond needs a permit.
If most of a run moves, a repair only shifts the failure to the next post along the line.
Failures clustered in a low spot or by a downspout point to a local cause; failures spread evenly point to age.
Posts set the same day in the same soil age at about the same rate, so one failed post is a reason to check its neighbors.
Middle options exist: replace one exposed run, re-set posts under sound panels or add steel posts behind a wood face. A rebuild must meet current height rules.
Tell us the length, the fence you have in mind and the town, and the next step is a visit to measure and walk the line.
Call (985) 866-3827Palisades Hammond Fence 43391 S Holly St, Hammond, LA 70403 office@palisadeshammondfence.com Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 9 AM to 2 PM Outside these hours, emergency calls only
