Storm damage? Line leaning, gate off its hinges? (555) 671-3908, answered around the clock — triage inside 24 hours, porch photographs accepted.
Services
The repair sheet
01
Post replacement & re-plumb — $185/post
The old post and its concrete come out, the hole goes deeper, and the new one is set in fresh concrete to 42 inches — below the frost line, same as a new build. Most “dead” fences are four posts and a Tuesday.
02
Re-board & re-face — from $14/ln ft
New cedar boards on sound rails, crowns up, spacing matched to what already stands. When the bones are good the skin is cheap — and we tell you which yours is before we quote a thing.
03
Gate surgery — from $240
Hinges swapped to Grade-2 minimum, self-closers re-set, latches re-pinned where the arm actually looks for them. Builder-grade hardware dies in three hard seasons; we grade the replacement to the traffic your gate really gets.
04
The full restoration — from $1,900
Pressure-wash, board swap, retension, re-stain and a gate tune, on a line worth keeping. Roughly a third of what the replacement crews quoted the same yards last year — and that is not a coincidence, because we checked.
From last season’s invoices
The repair arithmetic
What we do
Three rescues we see every week
The leaning line
A fence leans for one of two reasons: post rot at the grade line, or a shallow set the frost has been lifting an inch a year since the day it went in. We dig the worst post, read the concrete and the depth, and the diagnosis is usually standing in the hole with us. Reset below frost, the lean never comes back.
The rotten rail
Sprinkler-fed rot eats rails from the end-grain inward, and it always finds the cut the first builder didn’t seal. Rails come out crowned side up, ends sealed, boards re-hung in the same rhythm — the repair that is invisible a season later, which is the entire point of it.
The sagging gate
Nine gates in ten are not worn out — they are under-hung. Grade-2 hinges on a daily-use gate, a frame re-squared, a self-closer that closes from a whisper of a push. We grade the hardware to the use it gets and print the grade on the invoice.
Told when to replace
When more than forty percent of the posts are gone we say so and quote the rebuild — the read is free either way, and it is the same read we would want on our own yard.
Repairs built like new work
Frost depth, fresh concrete, crowned rails, sealed end-grain — a Secondline repair carries the same five-year workmanship warranty as a Secondline build, because it is one.
Every gate tuned twice
Once the day it re-hangs, once a month later after the wood has decided where it lives. The second visit is on us, forever, on every gate we touch.
Cricket Bend · Doyle Heights · 2025–2026
Rescues from this season
Six lines that were one estimate away from a skip. The captions name the rescue; the photographs argue the case better than the rates do.
How it goes
From the porch call to tuned
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Hour one
The porch call
Photographs, three questions and a gut read: how far it leans, when the gate stopped latching, what the last crew said. If it sounds like four posts and a Tuesday, we say so on the phone.
Day 1
Shore & string
We shore anything dangerous, pull the string line the length of the yard and dig one diagnostic post. The written quote — fix, restore or replace — follows the same day and holds for sixty days.
Days 2–4
Dig, set, cure
Failed posts out with their concrete, new holes to 42 inches, posts plumbed and braced in fresh mix. The cure day is on the schedule; we do not hang rails on hope.
Week 2
Boards & tune
Rails crowned, boards matched to the weathering of what stands, gates re-hung on graded hardware and tuned that day. The yard is swept before the truck backs out.
Six weeks
The check-back
We come back, re-tune every gate we touched and re-shoot the string. Free, always — the repair is not finished until the wood has had a month to argue with us and lost.
Two crews quoted me eleven and fourteen thousand to replace what Secondline fixed for three. They reset nine posts, re-faced the street side and rehung a gate I had been lifting for two years. The invoice said exactly what the estimate said.
The storm put a spruce through the back line on a Sunday. They answered on the second ring, shored it that afternoon, and the rebuild was finished inside the week — with the gate hardware upgraded to the grade it always needed.
They told me my fence was worth saving before I told them my budget. That is the whole review — a repair company that repairs, with a warranty card that reads like a new build’s.
Asked on every porch call
Repair or replace — how do you actually decide?
Post by post, with a hole in the ground. If the rot stops at the grade line and the sets are honest, it is a repair; past about forty percent failed posts the arithmetic flips and we quote the rebuild, because re-boarding a dying skeleton is the most expensive way to buy two years.
Why did my fence lean in the first place?
Almost always a shallow set or dry-poured concrete from the original build — frost lifts an under-set post roughly an inch a year, and geometry does the rest. Our resets go to the county frost line in properly mixed concrete, which is why the repair carries a new-build warranty.
Can you match my weathered boards?
Close enough that the neighbours stop looking within a season — new cedar against weathered cedar reads for about a year, then the sun settles the argument. For front-garden lines we can source reclaimed boards where the match matters to the committee.
Can you storm-proof the line while you are in there?
That is the natural moment for it: retensioned rails, sealed end-grain and a hardware-grade swap on the gates, each as its own line on the repair quote. Cheaper than a second visit, and the October you does the thanking.
Send the porch photograph.
A read on the same day you send it, a written quote inside 48 hours, and a start date that respects the weather. Cricket Bend, Doyle Heights and the roads between.