Fence Installation in Wichita, KS
Wichita is the Sedgwick County seat and Kansas's largest city, anchoring a metro area that stretches from Valley Center to Derby. Ovora Outdoor installs cedar, vinyl, chain link, and ornamental iron fencing across Wichita neighborhoods from College Hill to Riverside — every post set in galvanized steel instead of wood.
Fence permits in Wichita are handled by the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department (MABCD), the joint City of Wichita and Sedgwick County office at 271 W. 3rd St. N. Under the Wichita/Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code, a residential fence up to eight feet tall needs no building permit, while a concrete or masonry fence over four feet measured from the bottom of its footing does. Whatever the height, footings have to reach MABCD's frost line of 24 inches below finish grade.
Cedar Privacy Fences
Warm, solid-board privacy fencing — the most-requested fence in Wichita yards.
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Vinyl Fences
Low-maintenance privacy and picket styles that hold their color through Kansas summers.
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Chain Link Fences
Durable, budget-conscious containment for yards, pets, and pool code compliance.
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Ornamental Iron Fences
Open, elegant sightlines for front yards, pools, and estate-style properties.
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Every fence we install in Wichita — cedar, vinyl, chain link, or ornamental iron — is set on galvanized steel posts instead of wood, as standard. Ovora Outdoor is insured and permitted.
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Wood posts rot at the ground line, then they lean, then a Wichita spring wind finishes the job. It is the most common reason a fence in this metro fails early. So we do not use them. Every fence we build here, cedar or vinyl or chain link or ornamental iron, is set on a Halco PostMaster+ galvanized steel post as standard. Not an upgrade line you have to ask for.
On a cedar fence you never see it. The steel post is concealed inside the pickets, so the finished fence reads as all wood from both yards. You get the look of cedar and the backbone of steel, and your neighbors just think you bought a nice fence.
30″
Post depth
Set to the post manufacturer’s published spec, and past the 24-inch frost line MABCD sets for Wichita.
Concealed
Inside the cedar
Pickets wrap the steel. From either side of the line it looks like an all-wood fence, because that is what you see.
1-Year Workmanship Warranty
Every installation carries a one-year warranty on our own workmanship, and the materials we install carry their manufacturers' warranties — including a residential lifetime limited warranty on the PostMaster+ steel post inside every cedar fence.
On Site
Here is the honest version of what happens in your yard, in order, and why it takes the number of days it takes. Nothing about this sequence is padding. Every step of it is there because of what Kansas weather does to a fence that gets rushed.
Before day one
Locates, then removal on its own day
Kansas 811 gets called before anything gets dug, on every job. If there is an old fence coming out, we give the removal its own day. We do not tear out a fence in the morning and set posts on top of the mess in the afternoon.
Day one
Digging holes and setting posts
That is the whole day. Holes get dug, steel posts go in, concrete goes around them. Nothing gets hung on those posts before we leave. The fence line looks like a row of bare steel at the end of day one, and that is exactly what it should look like.
Day two
Throwing up pickets and gates
Rails, pickets, then gates. By the time boards go on, the concrete has had a night to set and the posts are holding their own weight. Gates get hung and adjusted last, because a gate is the part of a fence you touch every day.
Why not one day
Kansas wind is the reason
Some contractors try to do all of it in one day. The problem is Kansas wind. Pickets catch the wind like a sail, and your fence can be leaning after day one because the concrete has not fully set. We would rather come back tomorrow than hand you a fence that is already out of plumb.
The exception
Driven-post vinyl can finish in a day
Vinyl set on driven posts skips concrete entirely. There is nothing curing, so there is nothing to wait on. Those jobs can go up and be done the same day. It is the one build where a single day is the right answer instead of a shortcut.
Your Project Manager texts you an update every day the crew is on your property, so you are never driving home wondering whether anyone showed up. If the weather moves the schedule, you hear it from us first.
MABCD is one department serving both the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County, so a house inside the city limits and an acreage out in the unincorporated county go through the same counter. The office is at 271 W. 3rd St. N., Suite 101, downtown, and the phone is (316) 660-1840. It is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The Unified Building and Trade Code exempts from building permit “other fences not over 8 feet (2,438 mm) high” along with concrete or masonry fences not over 30 inches measured from the lowest point of adjoining grade. The exemption does not apply to a fence that encloses an outdoor seating area. Separately, MABCD Directive #14-B4, effective May 6, 2014, requires a permit before building a concrete or masonry fence or retaining wall over four feet tall measured from the bottom of the footing to the top surface of the wall, and asks for a scaled site plan plus structural drawings stamped by an engineer.
A wood, vinyl, chain link or iron fence under eight feet therefore clears the building-permit test on its own. Zoning is enforced separately, and it is more generous than most fence-company websites claim: Section III-E.1.e(1)(b) of the Unified Zoning Code allows fences or screening walls up to eight feet inside any required setback, front yards included, with height measured on the side with the least vertical exposure above finished grade. The one cut-down is at corners and driveways: inside the city, a fence with more than 80 percent opacity is capped at three feet along the side lot line within 20 feet of the street right-of-way, and along any lot line within 20 feet of where a driveway meets the street. Open fencing such as chain link, ornamental iron or spaced picket is not subject to that cap. HOA covenants are usually stricter than the city, so check them before building to the code maximum.
The practical answer to “what can I build?” changes street by street here. College Hill, Crown Heights, Riverside, Delano and Sleepy Hollow are older platted parts of the city where the constraint is usually the existing alley, the mature trees and the neighbor's line rather than a covenant. Newer additions on the west and northeast sides — Rockhurst, Auburn Hills, and the developments around New Market Square — are far more likely to sit inside a homeowners association.
Where an HOA exists, it commonly requires written architectural approval before a fence goes up, and that approval is entirely separate from anything the city does. A permit from MABCD is not permission from your HOA, and HOA approval is not a permit. Read the architectural control section of your recorded covenants before you settle on a height, a material or a color — the association is the party that can make you take a finished fence back down.
Read your plat for easements at the same time. A utility that has to dig in one is not obligated to rebuild what was put on top of it.
MABCD sets the local frost line at 24 inches below finish grade. That is the depth a footing has to clear so the freeze-thaw cycle cannot lift it, and it is why a post hole in Wichita goes deeper than the two feet homeowners often assume is enough.
Wind is the other load. The National Weather Service office in Wichita puts the city's average annual wind speed at 11.5 mph across the official 1991-2020 normals period, with a prevailing direction out of the south-southwest. Those normals describe an ordinary day, not the worst case: the highest gust ever recorded at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport is 102 mph, set on June 17, 2025, in a record running from 1970 to the present.
A six-foot solid privacy fence is a continuous sail facing that prevailing southerly wind, and every pound of that load ends up in the posts and their footings. That is why post material and footing depth matter more in Wichita than panel style does.
Kansas 811 requires at least two full business days' notice before any excavation, and post holes count.
Around the Metro
Our recent cedar privacy jobs around the metro have run 200 to 285 linear feet and gone up in 4 to 5 days. Three of them are documented below by area, with the footage straight off the job record and the homeowner’s own Google review under it. No addresses, and no prices, because neither belongs on a web page.
202 linear feet·4 days on site·Cedar privacy
A 202-foot cedar privacy run on the back of a newer lot, built June 26 to 29, 2026. The photos on our work page were shot the evening the crew finished, so the cedar in them is still bare. Stain went on as a separate trip in July.
“They did a great job on building our fence. They were on time and always helpful with any questions we had. I would hire them again.”
264 linear feet·4 days on site·Stained cedar
A 264-foot stained cedar privacy fence, built August 13 to 16, 2026, with the stain applied on August 21. The homeowner wanted a brown darker than the cedar tone most yards end up with, and black hardware on every gate. A dark stain shows every wave in a fence line, so the line had to be right before the first coat.
“These guys are the best in town! I spoke with other local fence companies and Ovora was the first that actually took the time to sit down, listen to what we wanted, and helped us map out a plan we were happy with. I felt heard and was taken care of from day one. If you want nothing less than perfect. Call these guys now!”
284 linear feet·5 days on site·3 gates
A 284-foot cedar privacy fence with three gates, built July 10 to 14, 2026. Three gates was the number that yard needed, so three is what got built. All three are 4-foot gates with their posts set through concrete, and parts of the yard run shorter 4-foot sections instead of full-height privacy.
“absolutely love the service these gentlemen treated me with! thank you for the building a beautiful fence for my two pups!”
See the photos from all three jobs → · Read every review we have →
What It Costs
We do not publish a per-foot number here, and you should be a little suspicious of any Wichita fence company that does. Every yard is a different shape on different ground. What we can tell you is exactly which parts of your yard move the number, so nothing on your quote reads as a mystery.
However those pieces land, you get the whole thing itemized in writing at your kitchen table, in one visit, before we leave. The number you sign is the number you pay.
Read the Wichita fence cost guide → for published market ranges by material.
Run the fence cost estimator → to put your own footage and gate count against those ranges.
Building a fence on a sloped Wichita yard → covers stepped versus racked runs, the gap at the bottom, and gates on a grade.
Wichita Questions
The six questions we get asked most often on a Wichita driveway, answered the way we would answer them standing in your yard.
Permits, Timing & Wind in Wichita
Usually not. Wichita and Sedgwick County share one building code, and it exempts fences up to 8 feet tall from a building permit, unless the fence encloses an outdoor seating area. A concrete or masonry fence over 4 feet, measured from the bottom of the footing, does need one. Zoning height and corner sight rules still apply either way, and most surrounding suburbs run their own permit process. We are fully insured, and we pull permits on every job that needs one. See the full Wichita fence permit guide →
Our recent cedar privacy jobs around the metro have run 200 to 285 linear feet and gone up in 4 to 5 days on site. Removal of an old fence adds its own day ahead of that. Vinyl set on driven posts skips concrete and can finish in a single day. Stain, when you want it, is a separate trip after the build rather than part of it. Weather moves everything, and when it does you hear it from us the same day.
The panel style matters less than what is holding it up. A 6-foot solid privacy fence is a continuous sail, and the National Weather Service office in Wichita records a prevailing wind out of the south-southwest, an 11.5 mph annual average, and a record gust of 102 mph at Eisenhower National Airport. All of that load ends up in the posts and their footings.
So: a galvanized steel post instead of wood, a footing that clears the local 24-inch frost line, and enough concrete around it to hold. If you want to give the wind somewhere to go, shadow box trades a little direct privacy for airflow. A cedar fence on wood posts is the build that leans first.
Judge it on the spec, not the sales pitch. Ask any Wichita fence company these five things and compare the answers side by side:
For the record, ours: Halco PostMaster+ galvanized steel on every fence type, set to 30 inches, 1.5 to 2 eighty-pound bags of concrete per hole, stainless ring-shank fasteners two per rail, stain quoted as its own line so you can take it or leave it. We are fully insured, and we pull permits on every job that needs one. See the full written standard, line by line →
Yes. We call 811 before every dig, on every job, and we wait out the notice period Kansas 811 requires before a post hole goes in. A run looking obvious is not a reason to skip it. You do not have to place the call or be home for the locators.
Sooner than most people expect, and we will tell you the real date instead of a comfortable one. Call (316) 640-1590 and we will tell you exactly what the schedule looks like this week, then come measure the yard and hand you an itemized written price before we leave. Or send us your details →
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