Wrought Iron Fence in Littlerock, CA

Height on a Littlerock picket fence comes from LA County Code 22.110.070: 3 feet 6 inches inside a required front yard, and 6 feet in a required interior side or rear yard. If the parcel is inside the Southeast Antelope Valley Community Standards District, 22.340.060.G adds a list of materials for a fence in a required yard adjoining a public or private road. Iron is on that list, and welded steel picket matches it more plainly than a solid panel does. Only county planning can tell you whether the district covers your parcel.

On a long frontage, decide what the line has to do. Marking a boundary along an orchard or an open field is light work: standard pickets, posts at normal spacing, one height all the way along. Keeping animals in or people out calls for closer posts and a heavier section, and the two are built and priced quite differently. Say which one you want at the measure.

This shop's standard panel runs 3/4 inch square pickets through a 1.5 inch channel rail, set about 4 inches on center for a clear gap near 3.25 inches. Line posts are 2.5 inch square up to 6 feet of panel. Gate posts get heavier as the leaf widens, up to 4 inch square. Those are our own sizes, not code minimums, and they go up when a run needs more.

Ground beside a worked Littlerock field is loose. We put posts at least 36 inches into concrete as shop practice, deeper under a gate leaf or where the soil will not hold. Open pickets pass most of the wind, so an iron line loads its posts far less than a solid run of the same height. A gate post still carries its leaf like a lever, and it gets the extra steel.

If a pool sits behind the house, the barrier rules and the county heights line up. California Health and Safety Code 115923 wants the barrier at least 60 inches tall, no more than 2 inches of clearance at the bottom, no gap that passes a 4 inch sphere, and an access gate that opens away from the water, closes itself and latches no lower than 60 inches up. A 60 inch barrier fits under the 6 foot limit for an interior side or rear yard. It cannot fit the 3 feet 6 inch front yard cap.

The outside face of a pool barrier needs care in the detailing. A wide bottom rail or a scroll at knee height gives a small child a foothold, so rails go low and tight or on the pool side, and picket tops stay plain. Our standard picket gap already stops the 4 inch sphere, so a pool changes the rails, the bottom clearance and the gate rather than the spacing.

This work runs out of our shop on Division Street in Lancaster. Read the full wrought iron fence details, or call (818) 220-8704 and we will come out.