Longacre Fence & Gate · Maple Dell & Ondaga County · Since 1994
A fence outlives the reason you built it.
The dog goes, the kids grow, the garden changes its mind — the line stays. Longacre builds cedar, chain-link and composite fences to the only standard that matters thirty years on: posts below frost, rails crowned, gates that swing true in their tenth autumn.
What we do
Three lines, three temperaments
Cedar, the one that ages well
Western red boards spaced by eye and checked every tenth by level, rails crowned so the water runs off, posts at eight-foot centres in concrete. It takes stain for a decade or silvers if you leave it alone — from $34 a running foot.
Chain-link, the one that outlives everything
Nine-gauge galvanized or black vinyl-coated, top rail tensioned, terminal posts in concrete. It is not the romantic choice and it is the last fence you will ever need to think about — from $19 a running foot.
Gates hung like doors
Welded hinges on drive gates to sixteen feet, latches set where your arm actually is, and every gate tuned twice — once the day it hangs, once a month later after the wood has decided where it lives. From $590 hung.
How it goes
Locate, set, build — three days on your calendar
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 1 — Locate
Everything found before anything digs
The plat pulled, 811 called, the string set a board-width inside your marks. We walk the line with you, price what we see — slope, rock, the rhododendron you would rather keep — and write the quote on the tailgate. It holds for sixty days.
Set day
Every post, every hole, one day
Augered to 48 inches, plumbed, braced and backfilled in concrete mixed on site — corners and gate posts first, because they carry the most and forgive the least. The line cures overnight before a rail ever touches it.
Build day
Rails, boards, gates, sweep
Rails crowned and toe-nailed, boards spaced to a pencil width, the gate hung and tuned, the site swept — and the month-later visit booked before the truck leaves. That second tuning is free, always.
Maple Dell · Ondaga County · 2025–2026
From this year's book
Three lines from a year of them. The book at the shop counter lists all two hundred and twelve thousand feet — ask and we will find the fence nearest your road.
Estimates written on the walk, locates filed by us · Maple Dell, Ondaga County and 30 miles around · (555) 290-7754 · line@longacrefence.example
They set two hundred and eighty feet of cedar in three days, and the gate on the drive has not needed a touch in the four autumns since. My neighbour priced three crews and hired the one I told him to — that is the second fence on this road with their initials on the last post.
Put the line on the calendar.
Call the shop or send the address and the footage. The quote is written on the walk, the locates are filed by us, and the two build days go on the calendar before you sign anything.