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.

Can a two-leaf gate work on my frontage?

If the setback gives the leaves somewhere to open into, yes — that gets measured on site before anything is drawn.

Fencing & Enclosures in Tequesta, FL

Horizontal slat gate and fence at the side of a modern rendered house

Fencing & enclosures · Tequesta, FL

The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the line carries.

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Fencing · Tequesta

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Aluminum picket fence running along a planted boundary

Aluminum picket run · concept scene

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

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

Grey perforated-panel modern gate across a driveway beneath a cantilevered house overhang. — The north county — From the city up to the Loxahatchee — newer construction, wider frontages, more slide gates than swings.

Tequesta · Palm Beach County

A gate that does not match its fence reads as two purchases. Picket spacing, rail height, cap detail and finish all come off the same drawing, which is the difference between a boundary and a collection of panels.

Long frontage is where a matched fence earns its keep — the same picket, the same rail height and the same finish as the gate, carried the whole length of the boundary.

Deeper setbacks change the brief entirely: there is room to make an entrance a piece of architecture rather than a barrier.

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 Tequesta 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

Worth knowing

Matched to the gate
Aluminum or steel
Ornamental estate
Set to the grade
Two-leaf openings

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.
Can a two-leaf gate work on my frontage?: If the setback gives the leaves somewhere to open into, yes — that gets measured on site before anything is drawn.