Cedar Fence Installation in Plymouth, MN
Cedar fencing for Plymouth homes, built around the city's opacity rules so your fence reaches the height you actually wanted.
- Locally owned & family operated
- Fast 1–2 day installation on most residential projects
- Lifetime warranty on installed posts
- Locally owned & family operated
- Fast 1–2 day installation on most residential projects
- Lifetime warranty on installed posts
Cedar Fencing Built to Outlast Plymouth’s Freeze and Thaw
All the decay resistance in a cedar board lives in the heartwood, the darker wood from the center of the tree. Cedar’s natural oils are what rot and insects refuse to touch, and the pale sapwood along the outside of the log carries almost none of them. A cheap cedar fence is usually one with sapwood in it, and it looks identical on delivery day.
Grade is how you tell. Select Tight Knot cedar gives you sound, fixed knots that stay where they are rather than falling out and leaving holes in a privacy screen two summers later. Rough-sawn boards hold stain better than surfaced ones because the open grain actually drinks it in. We put the grade and the mill finish in writing on your quote, since those two lines are most of the difference between fences that cost the same.
Satisfied Customers
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These guys do phenomenal work. We have a huge backyard and we we’re expecting them to take a few days, they ended up getting it all done in a day and it looked absolutely stunning! One small issue was when the inspector came out after, it was just barely over the property line on one side. Dave and his team came out and took down and reinstalled to make sure we were within our property line right away. Fantastic communication, quick service and exceptional work. I would recommend Next Day Fence to anyone and everyone.
★★★★★
We had new Fences installed here in our Doggie Daycare interior play room, and the team was fast, professional and the product delivered was second to none. Great job guys!! I highly recommend this company if you have any fencing needs large or small. You can trust Next Day Fences will not disappoint! I’d use them again in a heartbeat. ~ Thank you!
Our Cedar Fencing Options in Plymouth
Plymouth is the rare city where the style you pick changes how tall you can build. Inside the front setback, a half-solid fence tops out at three and a half feet while a more open one gets a full extra foot. The four styles below sit on different sides of that line, and all of them go up through the same professional cedar fence installation process.
Spaced Picket
Shorter boards with deliberate gaps, and the cedar style Plymouth rewards out front. Because the gaps keep it under 50 percent opaque, it qualifies for the taller 4.5-foot front yard allowance instead of the 3.5-foot limit a solid fence gets.
Board-on-Board
Overlapping vertical boards with no gaps and the rails hidden behind them. It reads as finished from both yards, and the overlap absorbs seasonal movement instead of opening up gaps. Full six-foot height applies in side and rear yards, where opacity stops mattering.
Shadowbox
Boards alternate from one face of the rail to the other, so both neighbors see the same fence and air moves straight through it. The standard choice along a shared line where neither side should get the back of the fence.
Solid Privacy
Boards butt tight together on one face for a complete screen. The most affordable route to full privacy, and the style where the finished side genuinely matters, since the rails show on the back. Plymouth wants those posts and stringers facing in toward your house.
How See-Through Your Fence Is Decides How Tall It Can Be
Most cities measure a fence and stop there. Plymouth checks how much you can see through it first, and the rule applies only inside your required front setback, which runs 25 feet from local and collector streets and 50 from arterials. In that zone, a fence 50 percent opaque or more caps at three and a half feet overall with a three-foot panel body. Open it past 50 percent, and you get four and a half feet overall with a four-foot body. Step outside the setback or into a side or rear yard and opacity stops mattering: six and a half feet overall, six feet of panel, any style you like.
One detail catches cedar specifically. Plymouth measures to the highest point, including posts and post caps, from the finished ground on the outer side. A decorative cap sitting proud of a six-foot panel eats that extra six inches fast, so we size posts and caps against the limit rather than after it.
Cedar Care and Fence Replacement in Plymouth
Two jobs fill most of our Plymouth calendar, and the city’s rules treat them differently than you might expect.
Staining Cedar Before the Weather Finds It
Bare cedar moves from honey to silver to gray, and Minnesota speeds every stage of it. Cedar fence staining closes the grain against water that freezes, swells, and splits boards from the inside out. New cedar wants a season to dry before its first coat, and rough-sawn boards take stain more deeply than smooth ones. After that, a coat every few years costs far less than replacing cupped panels.
Replacing Panels, Posts, and Whole Runs
Plymouth requires a permit to alter or relocate a fence, not only to build one, and that permit carries no fee at six feet or under. The city also expects both sides of a fence to stay in reasonable repair, so a leaning run is a code matter rather than a cosmetic one. We measure the existing line against current heights and visibility triangles before quoting, since an older fence may no longer sit where the ordinance now allows.
What Plymouth Requires for a Cedar Fence
Plymouth publishes its fence rules in a city fence and wall handout. The provisions that shape a cedar job:
- A permit for every fence, free under six feet. Required to install, alter, or relocate.
- Opacity sets front yard height. Half solid or more, 3.5 feet. More open: 4.5 feet. Inside the required setback only.
- Six and a half feet everywhere else. The panel itself stops at six feet, leaving six inches for posts and caps.
- Caps count toward the height. Measured from finished ground on the outer side to the highest point.
- 3.5 feet inside visibility triangles. Thirty feet off intersections, fifteen at local driveways, thirty at arterial ones.
- Build right to the lot line. No setback, but stay three feet off sidewalks and trails and out of water and sewer easements.
- Posts and stringers face in. The finished side looks at your neighbor or the street.
- A survey, not a sketch. A lot survey or scaled drawing showing easements. A contractor’s estimate does not qualify.
- Banned materials. Chicken wire, welded wire, deer netting, snow fence, branches, and metal T-posts outside agricultural land.
- Water comes first. Nothing in wetlands or buffers, over rain gardens or basins, below the ordinary high water level, or that changes drainage off your property.
- Posts carry the fence. Hennepin County’s 42-inch frost zone is where ours go, and why the lifetime warranty covers installed posts.
We prepare the application and survey, file locates through Gopher State One Call, and schedule inspections with the city before anyone digs.
Not Set on Cedar? Here's What Else We Build
Plenty of Plymouth yards end up in cedar, though it is far from all we install. Still weighing it? Here is the rest of the lineup our Plymouth fence contractors put up.
Chain Link Fencing
The low-maintenance option, and one Plymouth has a specific rule about: chain link here needs a top rail with the barbed ends turned toward the ground. Its openness also puts it under the 50 percent threshold, so it earns the taller front yard allowance.
Ornamental Steel Fence
Spaced pickets in powder-coated steel, which keeps it on the open side of the opacity line while never needing a brush. A good answer for front yards where you want height and do not want to stain anything.
Vinyl Fencing (4 ft and 6 ft)
Solid panels that hold their color instead of weathering to gray. Being fully opaque, a vinyl privacy fence lives in the side and rear yard where the six-foot allowance applies rather than out front.
Fence Replacement & Repair
Plymouth expects both sides of a fence to be kept in reasonable repair, so leaning posts and missing panels are worth addressing. We fix what is sound and replace what is not.
Our Process
Every cedar fence we build in Plymouth moves through these four steps, and the same fence installation service covers the other materials too.
1. Initial Consultation
You contact us and share your needs, priorities, and property goals. We provide clear recommendations and practical fence solutions based on your layout, budget, and use.
2. On-Site Assessment
We schedule a free on-site visit to take measurements, identify obstacles, review your yard conditions, and explain the installation method so you know exactly what you’re getting.
3. Proposal & Approval
You receive a clear, detailed proposal with no confusion or hidden details. Once approved, we move straight into scheduling.
4. Permit, Inspection, and Build
We handle permits, utility marking, and any required inspections, then build to the approved layout.
Why Plymouth Homeowners Choose Next Day Fences
Plymouth’s opacity rule is the kind of thing a contractor either knows or finds out the hard way, usually once a fence is already standing a foot shorter than it needed to be. Cedar has made up most of our work since 2021, here and in the other suburbs we work in.
- Heartwood grade and mill finish specified in your written quote
- Board style chosen against the opacity threshold, not after it
- Post and cap height sized to the six-and-a-half-foot ceiling
- Lot survey prepared to the city’s stated standard
- Wetland, buffer, and drainage conflicts caught before layout
- Utility locates called in through Gopher State One Call
- Lifetime warranty on installed posts
- 5 to 10 year craftsmanship warranty
- Most residential cedar runs finished in one to two days
- None of that shows on the finished fence. All of it decides how the fence looks ten years out.
Most of that happens before we ever unload a board. It is not the exciting part of the job, but it is the part you will be glad we did.
Speak with Cedar Fence Installation Contractors in Plymouth, MN
Most people have already settled on cedar by the time they call. What is left is the part worth talking through: how tall, which boards, and whether your front yard rules let you go higher than you thought.
Give us a call, and we’ll come out and look. We’ll walk the yard with you, tell you what Plymouth will approve on your lot, talk through which style suits the space, and leave you with a real number. Nothing to sign while we’re standing there. Whenever you’re ready, our Plymouth cedar fence installers would be glad to get started.
Plymouth Cedar Fencing FAQs
1. How tall can my cedar fence be in Plymouth?
Six and a half feet overall in side and rear yards, with the panel body at six feet. Out front, inside the required setback, it depends on opacity: 3.5 feet if the fence is half solid or more, 4.5 feet if it is more open than that.
2. Does a Plymouth fence permit cost anything?
Not for fences six feet and under. The city requires a permit to install, alter, or relocate a fence, and there is no fee at that height. We prepare the application and the required survey as part of the job.
3. Which cedar style should I pick?
Spaced picket if you want maximum height in a front yard, board-on-board for full privacy that looks finished from both sides, shadowbox along a shared line, and solid privacy when budget leads. We recommend one after seeing the lot.
4. Do post caps count toward the height limit?
Yes. Plymouth measures to the highest point of the fence, including posts and caps, from the finished ground on the outer side. That is why we size caps against the limit rather than adding them afterward.
5. My property backs onto a wetland. Can I still fence it?
Usually, but not into the wetland or its buffer, and not below the ordinary high water level of a lake, stream, or pond. Your fence also cannot change drainage leaving the property. We check the grading and the easements before drawing a line.