The take-down card, 2026
Wood privacy, removed & hauledfrom $4.80/ln ft
posts pulled, concrete out, fasteners magged
Chain-link, removed & recycledfrom $2.90/ln ft
steel to the scrap stream, cited on the invoice
Post & concrete disposalfrom $18/post
holes backfilled with clean fill, never rubble
Salvage credit — sound boardsup to $1.10/ln ft
graded at the yard, deducted from your invoice
Re-install, graded salvaged boardsfrom $21.00/ln ft
your own boards, re-hung on new posts
Grade & leave — site fine-rakedfrom $0.90/ln ft
the "it never happened" finish
The yard sheet
Removal is a trade, not a favour.
Anybody can knock a fence over. Taking one down without a scalpel scar on the sprinkler line, without a burial mound of broken concrete where the post row ran, and without a coffee can of nails in the mower’s future — that takes a crew with a locate sheet, a magnet rake and a dump account. Our quotes read down to the post, and the salvage line reads as a credit on the invoice, not a promise at the door.
Brackenfield · Old Tay · 2024–2026
Yards we cleared
Six removals from the last two seasons, photographed after the rake and before the new landscape went in. Half of these boards are back up in somebody’s garden by now.
Located before lifted
811 cleared and marked before the first post moves — gas, irrigation, the dog fence, the lantern line the last owner never documented. A pulled post is a lever against everything within two feet of it, and we treat it that way.
Magged, not mowed
Every fastener out of the grass: magnet rakes down the post row and the drop zones, staples and brackets into the scrap bin. The mower blade that survives the following spring is the proof the line item earned its keep.
Hauled, not hidden
Concrete and post butts leave on the truck to a licensed facility — never buried in the holes, never a mound where the run stood. Holes are backfilled with clean fill and compacted, and the grade is left ready for sod or a new line.
How a take-down goes
From standing to spotless in four passes
The whole job is built backwards from the question the next crew on your property will ask: would they know a fence ever stood here? Our answer is no — and the invoice shows what that cost, to the post.
The locate walk
We mark the utilities, the irrigation heads and the board grades in one pass — sound cedar gets a chalk mark for the yard, broken boards for the haul, and anything within a foot of a gas line gets dug out by hand.
The take-down day
Panels lifted off intact where the boards are worth saving, posts pulled with a jack rather than a chain, rails stacked rather than snapped. A crew of three clears a hundred and sixty feet of privacy in a working day.
The sort & credit
Everything leaves the yard sorted: clean fill in, concrete out, steel to the scrap stream with the weight ticket on your invoice, and salvage boards graded — the credit is deducted in writing before you pay a cent.
The rake & leave
Magnet rakes down the full footprint, holes compacted, grade left ready for sod, seed or the new fence line. We photograph the cleared run before we go, and the photograph is the standard we hold ourselves to.
The cheapest fence you will ever own is partly made of somebody else’s — and the cleanest yard on the street is the one that stopped pretending the old fence left on its own.
Two other bids quoted the removal and said "hauling extra". Railwright quoted the take-down, the concrete, the haul AND a credit line for the cedar — and the number at the bottom was still lower. When the landscaper arrived he asked when the fence was coming out. It was already gone.
The removal questions
Before you book the skip
What every Brackenfield owner asks when the old fence stops being worth repairing — answered by the crew that has taken down seven hundred of them.
What does removing a hundred feet of cedar actually cost?
Around five hundred dollars removed, hauled and raked at our card rate — and the salvage credit takes a working hundred off that when the boards are sound. The quote names the footage, the post count and the credit before you commit, and it is fixed for sixty days.
Is my old fence worth salvaging?
Cedar usually is if it is under fifteen years and has been kept off the soil line; treated spruce almost never is; chain-link is worth its steel weight and nothing more. We grade at the locate walk, in front of you, and the credit only appears on the invoice for boards we would re-hang ourselves.
Can you re-install my boards on a new line?
Yes — the strongest offer we make. Your graded boards, re-hung on new steel posts with new rails: the weathered colour matches the garden that grew around it, and it costs about two-thirds of new cedar. Half our spring book is exactly this job.
What happens to the post holes?
Pulled clean, backfilled with compacted clean fill and left ready for sod, seed or the new post row — never buried rubble, never a sinkhole in August. If the new fence goes on the same line we reuse the holes with fresh concrete instead.
Storm damage? We photograph and itemise the removal for the insurer the same week — claim-ready, not cash-only · (555) 879-4132 · down@railwright.example
Tell us what is standing.
Material, rough footage, and whether you want it gone, re-hung or credited — the fixed quote comes back inside two business days, salvage credit included, and the locate walk is free whoever pulls the posts.
Railwright Fence Removals · Lic. #FR-4416 · fully insured for demolition & hauling · down@railwright.example · 9 Bunker Lane, Brackenfield