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Therma-Tru Fence Installation: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
Therma-Tru fence installation in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $3,500 to $9,000 for a full perimeter job, with most homeowners landing around $5,500 for a standard backyard. We install Therma-Tru-compatible fencing systems and can usually get the job scheduled within the week. The way most people find us: their existing fence took a hit during hurricane season, or the original installer used pressure-treated posts that rotted at the soil line three years in, and now the whole run leans like a bad hand of cards.
You’re here because you want this fixed right, priced honestly, and done by someone who’ll tell you what’s actually wrong before quoting a number. That’s exactly how we work.
Which Therma-Tru Models This Applies To
Therma-Tru is known for doors, but their fence and gate systems share the same fiberglass-and-composite engineering. If you have a Therma-Tru fence product, you’re almost certainly working with their composite privacy fencing or their gate system built around the same material. The compatibility gotcha we see constantly in Fort Lauderdale: Therma-Tru gate hardware is not universal across their product years. Pre-2016 posts used a different hinge bolt pattern than current production, and homeowners who order replacement hinges online without measuring the bolt spacing end up with hardware that doesn’t fit. We match by measuring the hinge center-to-center distance on the existing post, not by trusting the model sticker.
On the fence panels themselves, Therma-Tru’s composite boards are sized to a 6-foot and 8-foot panel standard, but older installs in Victoria Park and Rio Vista sometimes used custom-cut panels that no off-the-shelf replacement will match. For those, we build to spec rather than force a stock panel that leaves a gap. When it comes to parts, OEM Therma-Tru hardware costs more but keeps the original warranty intact on newer systems. Quality aftermarket gate hinges and latches, particularly stainless steel ones rated for coastal salt air, often outlast the OEM zinc-plated versions. We’ll give you the honest split and let you choose.
One thing to know: Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale is an independent service provider. We’re not affiliated with Therma-Tru, and we don’t pretend to be. We just work with their systems enough to know where they fail and how to fix them without drama.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Therma-Tru Fence Installation Is Failing
- Posts leaning or twisting at the base. This is almost always the post-to-concrete connection or rot at the soil line. In Fort Lauderdale’s wet season, a pressure-treated post set without proper gravel drainage will start to move within two to three years.
- Gate dragging or won’t latch. Hinges wear first, especially the bottom hinge, which carries most of the weight. Once the hinge pin elongates the hole, the gate sags and the latch no longer meets the strike plate.
- Panel boards cupping or pulling away from rails. Composite material expands and contracts with heat. If the original installer screwed boards tight with no room for movement, the boards will cup in South Florida sun and pull their fasteners loose.
- Rust streaks below gate hardware. That’s the zinc plating failing on OEM hinges. Once you see rust, the hardware is done. On a fence within a mile of the ocean, this happens faster than anywhere else in the state.
- Post caps cracked or missing. Cap failure lets water into the post core. Once water sits inside a composite post through a Fort Lauderdale summer, the post will split from the inside out.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For a full Therma-Tru-compatible fence replacement in Fort Lauderdale, plan on $3,500 to $9,000 installed. A single gate rebuild with new posts and hardware typically runs $800 to $1,600. A partial run of 20 to 30 linear feet, posts included, lands around $1,800 to $3,200.
What drives the range: linear footage, how many posts need to be pulled and re-set, whether the old concrete footings can be reused, gate count, and whether we’re matching existing panel heights or starting clean. Every quote we write is a line-item price delivered before we touch a thing. You’ll see the cost of posts, panels, hardware, concrete, labor, and haul-away. No verbal estimate that grows on the final bill. Our work is covered for 365 days from the completion date, and if something fails inside that window, we come back at no charge.
If you’re also dealing with other parts of the property, we stock and install for KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone as well, so a fence job can happen alongside other work without juggling multiple contractors.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things before anyone shows up: is the post actually moving, or is the panel just loose? Is the gate sag from a worn hinge you can see, or is the post itself leaning? Those observations help us quote faster over the phone.
Where DIY goes wrong: pulling a post out of a concrete footing without the right equipment usually breaks the post at the base and leaves you with a ground-out hole to dig. Gate spring tension, if your gate has one, is the dangerous part. A loaded torsion spring on a gate can snap with enough force to take a finger or split a knuckle. We don’t recommend touching that without a trained eye. Honestly, the fence work itself isn’t rocket science, but the post setting is. If the posts aren’t plumb and set in proper drainage, you’ll be redoing this in three years. Same as we tell every customer: we tell you what we found, what it takes to fix it, and what it will cost, before we touch a thing. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll come look.
FAQs
A properly installed Therma-Tru-compatible fence with composite panels and stainless hardware will last 20 to 25 years in Fort Lauderdale’s climate, though salt air within a mile of the coast will cut hardware life in half if it’s zinc-plated rather than stainless. The panels themselves hold up well; it’s almost always the posts and hardware that fail first.
Sometimes yes, if the post is sound and the problem is just a failed footing or loose bracket, we can re-set and brace the post without replacing the panel run. If the post itself is split or rotted, replacement is the honest fix. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll tell you which one you’re dealing with.
Most fence replacements in Fort Lauderdale take two to four days from first post pull to final walkthrough, depending on footage and how many old footings need to be broken out. Single gate rebuilds are usually done in a day.
We stock common Therma-Tru-compatible gate hinges, latches, post caps, and stainless hardware on our vehicles, plus panel material for the most common 6-foot and 8-foot runs. If you have an older or custom-sized panel, we’ll measure and order it before we show up so you’re not paying for a second trip.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
