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CertainTeed Fence Installation: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
CertainTeed fence installation in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $3,500 – $9,000 for a full run, and we stock the rails, posts, and pickets to match your existing line. Most homeowners call us after a storm or a mower hit breaks a section and they realize the panel is no longer produced under the old name. The good news is CertainTeed fence systems are modular, so you rarely have to replace the whole run when one section fails.
In this part of South Florida, we see two failure patterns every month: salt-air corrosion eating the galvanized post inserts near the beach, and ground settling snapping the bottom rail in older sections around Rio Vista and Victoria Park. The fix is usually a single-day swap, not a week of tear-out. You just need someone who knows which CertainTeed generation you have, because the rail profiles changed in 2012 and again in 2019. Most of our Fort Lauderdale calls are for Buffalo board, EverNew, and the older Boardwalk series.
Which CertainTeed Models This Applies To
We install and repair parts for the three CertainTeed fence lines most common in Fort Lauderdale: Buffalo board, EverNew, and the legacy Boardwalk series. The Buffalo board uses a thicker, marine-grade vinyl at 0.055 inches. EverNew is the lighter residential line, 0.048 inches nominal, and its rails have a narrower pocket. Boardwalk, which CertainTeed discontinued, has a beadboard-style profile that’s easy to spot but harder to source.
The fastest way to identify your line is to look at the bottom rail. Buffalo board bottom rails have a U-channel that’s 1.5 inches deep. EverNew bottom rails run 1.25 inches. If you find a faded white label on the inside of a post, that’s the CertainTeed manufacturing code, and a photo of it helps us match new parts to old stock. We’re an independent installer and repair provider, not a CertainTeed dealer, but we work with OEM stock and quality aftermarket equivalents that match the original profiles. For a 6-foot privacy section in Fort Lauderdale, the parts cost runs $120 – $210 on the Buffalo board, and $90 – $160 on EverNew, before labor.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your CertainTeed Fence Installation Is Failing
- Leaning posts at the base. The post insert has rusted at ground level or the concrete footer has shifted after heavy rain. Fort Lauderdale’s water table makes shallow footers fail faster than inland.
- Sagging middle rail. This is almost always UV breakdown of the rail’s internal aluminum stiffener, not the vinyl itself. Once the stiffener bows, the rail follows it.
- Chalky, fading surface. Salt air and direct sun will age the top coat in 5 – 7 years here. The panel is still structurally sound, but the color will never come back with cleaning.
- Brittle bottom rail cracks. Impact from mowers, trimmers, or a kid’s bike sends hairline fractures through the lower U-channel. Water gets in, sits, and the crack spreads in cooler months.
- Posts pulling away from the panel. The post’s internal clips or the rail’s end tabs have failed. In an EverNew rail, this is usually a snapped locking tab from wind flex during a summer storm.
If you’re seeing any of these in your Fort Lauderdale yard, call us at (754) 354-7423. We’ll identify your CertainTeed line from a few photos and give you a written price before we set foot on the property.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
A full CertainTeed fence installation in Fort Lauderdale runs $3,500 – $9,000 depending on linear footage, line type, and whether you’re on a canal lot or a tight zero-lot-line parcel. For a single section repair, expect $350 – $650 installed for parts and labor on Buffalo board, and $300 – $550 on EverNew. A post replacement runs $225 – $400 because we pull the old footer, re-set at 24 – 30 inches, and re-anchor the panel same day.
Every quote we write in Fort Lauderdale includes parts, labor, footer work, and debris haul-off. No surprises. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers the install for a full year: if a rail drops or a post shifts, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s not a warranty on the vinyl itself; CertainTeed’s material warranty runs separately. But our workmanship is covered in writing.
DIY or Call Us?
If a single picket is cracked and the rails are fine, you can pull the picket and slide a new one in with basic hand tools. That’s a $40 fix. But if the rail is sagging, if a post leans, or if the bottom U-channel is cracked through, DIY goes sideways fast. CertainTeed rails lock into posts with hidden tabs, and a homeowner who pries too hard will snap the rail socket on the opposite side. Then you’re replacing the post and the rail, and the job triples in cost.
Post replacement is the one we tell Fort Lauderdale homeowners to leave alone. A 6-foot vinyl post in a 30-inch footer weighs 90 pounds filled. If the old concrete doesn’t come out clean and you hit a sprinkler line or a cable drop, the repair gets expensive. Luca’s crew has done enough 105-degree afternoon post-pulls near Las Olas to know exactly where the utilities run and how to pop a footer without wrecking the yard. Call (754) 354-7423 and we’ll give you a written price for the section, not a whole-fence upsell.
FAQs
Plan on 20 – 25 years for Buffalo board and 15 – 20 for EverNew here, with the salt air knocking a few years off what the manufacturer lists for inland climates. Posts and bottom rails go first, which is why we set posts at 30 inches on canal-lot jobs.
No, a cracked rail can’t be glued or patched once the internal stiffener is compromised. We replace the rail and reuse your pickets when the pockets are still tight, which keeps a Fort Lauderdale section repair under $400 in most cases. Call us for a written quote.
A single section or post swap is done in one visit, typically 2 – 4 hours. A full fence replacement on a standard Fort Lauderdale quarter-acre lot runs two to three days, including pulling old footers and haul-off.
We stock Buffalo board and EverNew rails, posts, pickets, and caps on the truck in white, tan, and driftwood. Obscure Boardwalk profile pieces may take 3 – 5 days to source, but we’ll tell you that before you pay a dime.
Written by Luca Romano, Owner & Lead Contractor, Sawyer Remodel Fort Lauderdale at Sawyer Remodel Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
