Fence or deck costs in Little Rock

If your back yard runs down to a creek in Little Rock, find the floodway line before you set a single post. City code keeps floodways free of structures, and the Public Works page on floodplain development names fences among the things that must stay out. No new structure can sit within 25 feet of the established floodway line. Any development wholly or partly inside the regulatory floodplain needs a Special Flood Hazard Area development permit, reviewed before work starts, and the City's list of what counts as development includes walls and fences.

A lot of the city is older, settled ground. Just over half the homes in the city of Little Rock were built before 1980, by Census estimates. On an older lot, the old fence may not sit where the property line does, so it's worth confirming the line before a new one goes up in the same holes.

The weather works on what you build. Little Rock gets a little over 50 inches of rain in an average year at the airport, with about 50 nights at or below freezing, per NOAA. Wet soil keeps a wood post damp right at the ground line, and that's where rot starts. A metal post, or a wood post on a bracket above a concrete footing, keeps the wood out of the dirt. On a deck, flashing where the ledger meets the house matters just as much.