RKC Wood Care Pros is the fence contractor for the antebellum river town — ornamental iron and custom cedar picket that read right against the 19th-century homes on the Battle of Lexington tour route, built on the bluffs and dug through the old stone foundations and rocky hillside soil, posts set 36 inches deep. Installation, repair, and in-house staining from one crew. 400+ fences since 2021. Free estimate.
LEXINGTON CONDITIONS
Lexington is a town people drive to look at — antebellum homes on the tour route, the Battle of Lexington site, iron and picket everywhere the chain link isn't. So a fence here answers two questions at once: does it look right for the century-old street it sits on, and can it actually get set into bluff ground full of rock and old stone foundations? We plan for both from the start.
On the historic core, ornamental iron and custom-milled cedar picket are the vocabulary — the open, formal line a 19th-century home was built to sit behind. A stock privacy panel out front reads wrong instantly, which is why chain link is rare in the district. We design the run to the house: height, spacing, and cap profile matched to the block, backyard privacy kept behind the historic front where it belongs.
The bluff lots carry thin soil over rock, and the ground around the oldest structures is full of massive buried stone from foundations long gone. A standard auger stalls on both. We probe before we dig, shift a post to clear buried stone where we can, and rock-drill through where we can't — so every post reaches a true 36 inches instead of stopping short in a shallow pocket that the first freeze walks loose.
Lexington falls toward the Missouri, and a post set half in a slope face is the first thing freeze-thaw pries loose. Our counter is buried: we rack or bench the run to the grade with the top line kept true, set the footings back onto firm ground, and pour deep with drainage at the base. On a bluff lot the fix you never see is the whole difference between a fence that holds and one racking sideways by February.
FENCE AND GATE SERVICES IN LEXINGTON
RKC installs and repairs every type of fence — wood, vinyl, chain link, ornamental iron, aluminum, and commercial security — plus custom gates and in-house staining. Open any card for its Kansas City detail page — options, specs, price bands. All of it reaches Lexington on one crew, dug to full depth whether it's a tour-route façade or a hilltop lot.
Powder-coated steel and iron picket is the signature Lexington look — the open, formal line that reads right in front of a 19th-century home and along the Battle of Lexington tour route, set on posts drilled a true 36 inches into the bluff.
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Custom cedar picket milled to the height, spacing, and cap profile of the antebellum block it sits on — the period-correct answer where a stock privacy panel would look wrong against a historic façade.
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Solid cedar privacy for the backyards behind the historic fronts — 6-foot board-on-board and shadowbox, hung on 36-inch posts and finished to hold against the humid river-bluff seasons.
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Formal walk gates and driveway gates on welded frames, styled to match an iron or picket run and hung to swing true on the sloped bluff lots where the grade wants to pull a gate out of square.
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White vinyl picket and privacy for the newer edges of town where a homeowner wants the classic look with none of the upkeep — a clean, low-maintenance line that still nods to the old picket tradition.
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Slope-heaved post resetting and iron-fence re-anchoring are Lexington's most common repair calls — plus the delicate work of matching a new section into an old ornamental run without the splice showing.
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Black vinyl-coated chain link for the hilltop containment yards and back lots away from the historic core, where a functional, see-through boundary matters more than the period look out front.
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Semi-transparent penetrating stain in natural and heritage-tone finishes, applied by the same crew that built the fence — the coat that keeps a custom cedar picket from graying out on a bright tour-route frontage.
Service detailsAlso serving Lexington across the metro: we install aluminum, pool, and commercial security fencing, plus fencing styled for the newer developments on the edges of town. Ask when you book your estimate.
THE LEXINGTON PERIOD-AND-GROUND READ
A Lexington fence gets decided twice: once for how it has to look on a historic street, and once for what our crews hit when the drill goes into the bluff. Consider this the working map — the parts of town, the style each one calls for, and the dig it forces underneath.
19th-century façades on the tour route; the wrong fence looks out of place instantly
Ornamental iron or custom-milled cedar picket, sized and capped to the era of the house — never a stock privacy panel out front. We dig carefully here, because the ground around old homes is full of buried stone from long-gone foundations.
Real fall toward the Missouri; a shallow post on a slope heaves within a couple of winters
Rack or bench the run to the grade with the top line held true, set the footings back from the slope edge onto firm ground, and pour deep so freeze-thaw can't lever a post loose on the drop.
Massive buried stone foundations from the town's oldest structures sit in the post line
We probe before we auger, shift the post a few inches to clear buried stone where we can, and break through with rock tooling where we can't — so the post still reaches a true 36 inches instead of stopping short on a rock.
Thin soil over rock on the upper bluff lots; a standard auger stalls
Rock-drill the hole to full depth and pour a bonded concrete footing rather than dry-setting into a shallow pocket — the only way a post holds on the rocky Lexington ground for the long run.
Containment for dogs and kids on the higher ground away from the tour route
Function leads out back here — cedar privacy or vinyl-coated chain link, built to the same 36-inch spec, where a see-through or solid boundary matters more than the antebellum look.
Modern lots that still want to nod to the town's classic character
White vinyl picket or clean cedar picket that gives the historic look with low upkeep — a period feel on standard-augered ground, finished side to the neighbor.
Landmarks near the Lexington lots we fence: the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site, the Lexington Historical Museum, and the former Wentworth Military Academy grounds — off M-24, M-13, and M-210. Our crews run the M-24 river corridor through Lafayette County, so whether you're on the tour route or up on a hilltop lot, you're on the route.
Lexington and the towns next door: the same crew fences the Lafayette and Ray County river towns around it — Higginsville and Richmond — and it all runs out of our Kansas City metro fence shop in Olathe.
WHY LEXINGTON HOMEOWNERS HIRE US
On a historic street, the fence is part of the streetscape — and the ground it's set in is the hardest in the region to dig. A crew that quotes it like a flat suburban backyard misses both the look and the rock. Here's what the locals we build for actually weigh.
Ornamental iron and custom-milled picket, sized and capped to the era of the façade — not a stock panel forced onto a 19th-century block. We design the front run to the home, and keep backyard privacy behind it where it belongs.
Buried stone foundations and rock in the bluff soil stop a standard auger cold. We probe the post line, shift to clear old stone where we can, and rock-drill where we can't — so every post reaches a true 36 inches, no shortcuts on depth.
The lots fall hard toward the river, and a slope is where cut-rate crews let a fence follow the ground into a wave. We bench the run into level sections and drain the low footings, so the top line holds true across a hillside most installers would rather not quote.
Owner-run since 2021, with the finish kept under the same roof. The hands that set the iron and milled the picket are the ones that return to seal the cedar, so it doesn't silver out on a bright tour-route frontage.
THE WORK WE BRING TO LEXINGTON
These are real RKC jobs — our crews, our materials, dug to the same full depth we bring out the M-24 corridor to Lexington. Ornamental iron, custom picket, cedar privacy, stained wood — a fair look at what runs from the historic fronts to the hilltop backs here.
LEXINGTON ESTIMATES · WHAT SHAPES THE NUMBER
A 6-foot cedar privacy fence in Lexington runs about $25 to $35 per linear foot installed on workable ground. The look the historic core calls for sits higher: ornamental iron and custom-milled picket cost more than a stock panel, and that's before the ground factor. What adds scope here is the bluff itself — rock-drilling the hillside soil, probing and working around buried old foundations, and benching the slopes all take extra time. Vinyl picket lands between cedar and iron with no upkeep. The quote comes free and broken out by line, so the material choice and the bluff-ground work each show as their own figure rather than a single number.
Posts, concrete, rock-drilling, hardware, cleanup — every piece is its own line, so the invoice holds no surprises. Blending a repair into an existing iron run is priced separately. See the full Kansas City pricing detail →
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The questions we field most often on Lexington jobs. Something not here? Ring (913) 286-1091 and ask — the owner tends to pick up himself.
Free estimate, same-day response during business hours. Period-right design and bluff-ground digging priced in from the start.
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