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 Oakland Park, FL

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

Aluminum or steel · Oakland Park, FL

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

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Fencing · Oakland Park

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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

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

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

Barrier arm lowered across the entry lane of a gated residential community. — Central Broward — The older inland grid either side of I-95 and the canal network that runs through it.

Oakland Park · Broward 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.

City boundaries are short runs with a lot of returns. The corners and the step-downs are where a fence line either looks considered or looks improvised.

Where the property line meets a public sidewalk, everything the gate does has to happen inside the property.

Ask before the steel is ordered

Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating is settled by code rather than by preference. What is not settled by code is the local review — Oakland Park handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

Fencing — the full breakdown

Straight answers

Aluminum or steel
Ornamental estate
Set to the grade
Matched to the gate
Slide & cantilever options

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.