Privacy, shadowbox, picket and horizontal cedar fence, built board by board in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Every plank goes on with screws instead of nails, the corners get cut to fit your yard, and the site is clean when we pull out. Serving Saint Joseph and 50 miles around.
Privacy, shadowbox, picket, horizontal cedar and split post fencing for homeowners around Saint Joseph, plus the gates and the tear-out that go with them.
Solid privacy, carried down a bank
Full-height wood privacy fence, boards butted tight with no gap along the bottom, set straight and even. Every board is screwed to the rail instead of nailed. Screws hold when the wood moves through a Missouri winter, so boards do not work loose and pop off the way nailed pickets do.
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Shadowbox, boards on both faces
Boards alternate front and back across the rails, so the fence looks finished from your side and from the neighbor's. Air moves through it, which is why shadowbox handles wind better than a solid panel.
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Spaced picket, tops run true
Classic spaced picket for front yards and garden borders, and split post where you want the line marked without closing the view in. Same build standard as the privacy work, screwed and squared, tops run true down the line.
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Horizontal cedar plank
Wide cedar planks run side to side instead of up and down. It is the modern look, it shows the grain off, and it is the one people stop and ask about. Runs clean against a patio, a pool deck or a modern elevation.
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Antique hinges, latch and drop rod
Single and double swinging gates framed and braced so they stay square. The hardware is where Mark spends the extra minute: antique style hinges and latches instead of the bulky stuff that comes in the box, and an oriental pull on both faces.
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Old fence pulled and stacked to go
Old fence pulled, posts dug out, and the debris hauled off before the new line goes in. One crew handles both ends so nothing sits half done in your yard.
Free estimate →From the street one wood fence looks like the next. These are the four places Mark does it differently, and they are the reason his fences do not read as standard.
Most crews cut every corner at 45 degrees because it is the fast, standard answer. Mark cuts to the yard instead. A 35 degree angle, a 3 foot span, a 4 foot span, a 6 foot span, whatever the back yard actually allows. The line ends up easier to mow around and it looks like it was drawn for that yard rather than dropped on it.
Most contractors hang a gate on the bulky hardware that comes in the box. Mark uses antique style hinges and gate latches instead, slimmer and better looking against cedar, and it is the first thing customers point at when the job is done.
A 6 foot gate gets three hinges instead of the usual two. The third hinge carries the weight in the middle so the gate does not sag out of square and start dragging on the ground a season or two in. It costs a hinge. It saves the gate.
An oriental gate pull goes on both faces of the gate, not just the outside. You open it the same way coming in from the drive as you do going out from the yard, and nobody is reaching over the top to find a handle that is not there.
Every board is screwed to the rail. It costs more time up front and it is the reason the fence still looks straight after a few seasons of the wood swelling and shrinking.
Old fence, offcuts, post concrete and scrap go with us. Customers bring up the cleanup on their own in the reviews, which is usually a sign it is not standard.
You get told when we are coming, what changed and why, and what it means for the price. If we hit a tree root or a buried cable line, you hear it from us first.
Boothroyd Construction has been building fence around Saint Joseph for 21 years. Long enough to have gone back and looked at what held up and what did not.
Straight from Mark, and echoed in his reviews
Photos from finished jobs, taken on site. Click any one to see it full size.
Every photo on this page is Boothroyd Construction's own work
Best fence construction I have seen in a long time. All planks SCREWED IN no nails! Straight and even. Very good price.
Mark Boothroyd runs the crew and works the line himself. The man who quotes your fence is the man who builds it, so nothing gets lost between the sale and the saw.
Two decades of yards, grades, tree roots and property lines in this town. Close enough that coming back to look at something is not a production.
Boothroyd Construction carries insurance. We do not claim a contractor license we do not hold, and we would rather tell you that up front than have you find out later.
Every review below is public on HomeAdvisor and shown word for word.
He is very good and is respectful of the property and your wishes.
Was very informative, in time, and showed up when he said he would. The fence looks great and was very well built.
Mark was patient with us and had excellent communication. Even when we ran into scheduling issues he was honest and flexible.
Boothroyd Construction is Mark Boothroyd building wood fence for homeowners in and around Saint Joseph, Missouri, and has been for 21 years. Privacy, shadowbox, picket, horizontal cedar and split post, gates built into the run, tear-out handled, and a service radius of about 50 miles.
The way the work gets done is the pitch. Boards go on with screws so they stay put. Corners get cut at 35 degrees to suit the yard instead of a stock 45. Gates get antique hardware and an oriental pull on both faces. The yard gets cleaned before we leave. And you get told what is happening while it happens, which is the thing customers write about most in the reviews.
Estimates are free and Mark is reachable 7 days a week. Call him, text him, email him, or send the form with your yard and what you are after.