My ground is not level.

Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.

Can you match a fence that is already there?

Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.

How deep do the posts go?

Deep enough for the panel height and for the ground it is going into. That is a calculation, not a habit.

Do I need a pedestrian gate in the run?

One somewhere sensible is the thing nobody regrets and plenty of people come back to add later.

Aluminum & Steel Fencing in Highland Beach, FL

Ornamental iron fence running behind a clipped hedge under a line of palms

Concept · illustrative

Aluminum or steel · Highland Beach, FL

One will not rust. The other takes ornamental work. The site usually decides.

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Ornamental iron gate lit from below at night, palms above it against a dark sky. — On the water — Barrier-island and inlet addresses, most of them with a town or association design guideline of their own.

Highland Beach · Palm Beach County

Aluminum is the low-maintenance answer for long runs and exposed boundaries. Steel is what you want when the fence has real ornamental detail in it. Neither is the right answer everywhere, which is why the site gets looked at first.

Aluminum does not rust, which is most of the argument on a boundary this close to the water. Steel takes the ornamental work, but the coating has to be specified for the exposure.

Wind exposure on the water is not only a number in a code table — it is what actually loads a gate leaf, every afternoon.

Different county, different approval route

Because Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the approvals a Miami-Dade contractor quotes from memory are the wrong ones here. What Highland Beach actually requires is set locally, and where a town or an association runs its own design guidelines those shape the finish as much as the code shapes the frame.

Fencing — the full breakdown

Fencing · Highland Beach

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Black horizontal louvre slats silhouetted against water at sunset

Louvre, backlit

Aluminum picket fence running along a planted boundary — Aluminum picket run

Horizontal slat gate and fence at the side of a modern rendered house — Slat, side return

Timber-look horizontal slat fence running along a path with planting behind — Horizontal timber-look

Black slat gate set into a wall of climbing greenery at a modern entrance — Slat into greenery

Close view of cast spear-top finials on a black ornamental iron fence — Spear-top finials

Straight answers

Set to the grade
Matched to the gate
Aluminum or steel
Ornamental estate
Specified for salt exposure

My ground is not level.: Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.
Can you match a fence that is already there?: Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.
How deep do the posts go?: Deep enough for the panel height and for the ground it is going into. That is a calculation, not a habit.
Do I need a pedestrian gate in the run?: One somewhere sensible is the thing nobody regrets and plenty of people come back to add later.

Same county

The towns marked On the water share the same geography as Highland Beach.