Wood Fence Repair in Santa Fe Springs
What to know before you book wood fence repair in Santa Fe Springs
What it costs in Santa Fe Springs
What moves the number: how many posts, whether the old footings have to be broken out, access for materials, and whether the ground is soil, clay or rock.
Estimates are free and in writing. We look at the fence rather than quoting from a photograph, because on timber the part that matters is underground.
Keeping it standing afterwards
Walk the line once a year and push each post at chest height. Any movement means the buried section has gone, and catching that early is the difference between one post and three.
The cheapest maintenance in this city is adjusting the sprinkler heads that throw onto your fence. Constant damp at the base is what kills timber here.
Matching existing timber
New cedar next to weathered cedar is not the same colour and will not be for a season or two. Stain narrows the gap; it does not close it straight away.
Where a repair will be visible from the street we will say up front how close it is going to get, rather than letting you discover it after the work is done.
What is repairable and what is not
Replacement starts to make sense when several posts have failed along the same run, when the framing has racked out of square, or when repeated repairs have already cost more than half a new fence.
We will tell you which side of that line your fence sits on. Replacing a run with ten years left in it is not a service worth selling.
Why wood fences fail at ground level
This is why a fence can look perfectly sound from the street and still be one gust from going over.
Wood fully buried stays saturated and rots slowly. Wood in open air stays dry and lasts. The band at the soil line does both repeatedly, and that cycling is what breaks the fibres down.
How quickly can you come out?
For a fence that is down or a gate that will not close we try to get there quickly, because both are security problems rather than inconveniences.
Do you stain after repairs?
We can, and on a visible run it is usually worth doing the whole fence so it ages evenly from the same point.
Is it worth repairing an old fence?
Often, yes. If the posts are sound and the framing is straight, a tired-looking fence has plenty of life left. We will tell you if it does not.
