MANSFIELD, TX – June 25, 2026 – PRESSADVANTAGE –
As the North Texas summer brings sustained heat and the region’s storm season, Double Eagle Fence, a family-owned fencing contractor based in Mansfield, TX, is drawing attention to two factors property owners often overlook when a fence begins to fail: the soil it sits in and the materials it is built from. The company, led by owner Lance Dunaway, notes that the expansive clay soils common across Tarrant, Johnson, Ellis, and Dallas counties are among the least understood influences on how long a residential or commercial fence lasts.
“Most people choose a fence by how it looks, but in this part of Texas the ground underneath it matters just as much,” said Lance Dunaway, owner of Double Eagle Fence. “Clay that swells when it is wet and shrinks as it dries is what pushes posts out of line, so how and how deep those posts are set often decides whether a fence stands straight for years or starts leaning after one season.”
That soil movement is most visible after the wet-to-dry swings that mark a North Texas summer. Posts that were set too shallow or without adequate footing can shift, which in turn causes gates to drag and panels to pull out of alignment. Heat and sun add a second layer of wear, particularly on the moving hardware of gates and on materials that were not selected for the climate. Galvanized steel and ornamental iron resist rust and hold up to repeated weather cycles, which is part of why those materials are common across the area, while the hinges and latches on any gate see the most stress because they are used and exposed daily.
Double Eagle Fence approaches these conditions from more than two and a half decades of field experience. Dunaway has spent over 25 years working across the fencing materials, project scales, and property types found in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, from residential privacy installations to commercial security perimeters for business and industrial clients, agricultural pipe and farm fencing on rural Johnson and Ellis county properties, and specialty work such as tennis court fencing and pool enclosures. Founded in 2019, the company manages each project in-house, from the initial consultation through material selection, installation, and gate operator programming, with one team carrying a job from the first site visit to final cleanup rather than passing it between crews.
The company installs a full range of fence types across residential, commercial, and agricultural properties, including cedar wood, chain link, ornamental iron and steel, wrought iron, brick, and farm fencing, with pool enclosures built to code-compliant barrier standards. Materials are sourced from established suppliers including Master Halco, Binford, King Metals, and Ameristar, which gives each installation access to recognized product lines rather than unbranded substitutes. Where standard post-setting will not work, such as on concrete, pavement, or other hardscaped surfaces, the company uses core drilling to set posts, allowing fencing on sites where conventional methods fall short.
The work extends beyond fencing into gate systems and access control. Gates are built in automatic and manual configurations and matched to the surrounding fence, with operators programmed for both swing and slide setups and access control covering keypads, remote entry, and smart access hardware. Handling fencing, gate automation, and access control together allows a property owner to commission a complete perimeter as one coordinated system.
Centered on Mansfield, Double Eagle Fence serves a four-county area across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, reaching communities including Fort Worth and Arlington in Tarrant County, Midlothian and Cleburne in Johnson County, Waxahachie and Ennis in Ellis County, and Grand Prairie and Irving in Dallas County. The company’s roots and daily operations remain in Mansfield, anchoring its work in the southern part of the metroplex.
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For more information about Double Eagle Fence, contact the company here:
Double Eagle Fence
Lance Dunaway
+16822826943
lcdunaway@gmail.com
1206 Oakmont Ct, Mansfield, TX 76063, United States
