The contractor we wanted to hire didn't exist, so we built it.

Sanpiz started on the other side of the table. Years of engineering work for a construction company, on large commercial and civil projects. The kind with heavy equipment, long schedules and inspectors on site.

That work meant dealing with contractors constantly, and it was always the same three problems. They didn't call back. They didn't know enough about what they were doing. And nobody would commit to anything in writing.

Eventually it stopped being a complaint and started being a plan. We knew exactly what was missing, so we built a company around not doing those three things.

We're engineer-led, with a bachelor's and a master's in construction, and the projects we came from were considerably larger than a backyard.

For a straightforward fence, that's more than anyone needs. It matters the moment something isn't standard: when a pergola has to attach to a section of house with nothing structural behind the wall, when a city rejects a generic submittal, or when a client wants wider openings than the usual framing allows and someone has to actually run the numbers instead of saying no.

Most contractors reuse the same plan set because it's easy to get approved. That works right up until your house doesn't match the drawing.

Engineering makes the plan. The crew makes it real.

Every one of our field guys has fifteen years or more in their trade, longer than this company has existed, and that's the whole point. An engineer with no craftsmen is just paperwork. We came together out of relationships built across years of projects and job sites, and that's not something you can hire off an app on a Tuesday.

What you get is both halves: someone who can solve a structural problem on site, and people who have poured, framed and set posts a thousand times.

• You get it in writing before you pay anything.

  A PDF listing what we're building, what we're not building, and what we need from you. If it's not on that document, it's not in the price, in either direction.

• The number doesn't move.

  We don't discount, because a price that drops when you push on it was never a real price. If it's more than you want to spend, we change the scope and re-quote it honestly.

• The balance waits until you're satisfied.

  35–50% to start, depending on how much material the job takes. The rest when the work is done and you're happy with it.

• You hear back within 24 hours.

  Every time. Even if it's to tell you we're not the right fit for your project.

What we want you to remember a week after we leave is that it looks great and you can't tell we were there.

No nails working loose. No concrete spoils dumped in the flower bed. No tools left behind, no ruts in the grass, nothing damaged that we didn't come to work on. Boards and posts that read as one fence instead of lumber bought in pieces from wherever was closest.

That's not a high bar. It's just the bar, and most of the work we drive past in this metroplex doesn't clear it.

We came to DFW for the opportunity, and to learn in the state where everything is bigger. 4 years in, we'd say that reputation is earned.

We're based in Arlington and build across the metroplex. We take calls and write estimates in English and Spanish.

We build new. We don't take storm damage or emergency repair work right now. If that's what you need, tell us and we'll point you toward someone who does it well.