Fence and gate repair,
without a new fence.

Why gates sag, and what actually fixes it

Almost every wooden gate eventually drops on the latch side, because a gate is a heavy rectangle hanging off two or three hinges and gravity works on it every day. The fix is rarely a new gate. It's re-squaring the frame, adding a diagonal brace or an anti-sag cable running from the top hinge side down to the bottom latch side, moving to heavier hinges, and resetting the strike so it catches without being lifted. An hour or two of that gets you a gate that swings and latches with one hand, which is the whole point of a gate.

Posts, and the reason they move

A post that wobbles has usually rotted at grade — right where the wood meets the soil, which is wet and full of things that eat wood — or was set too shallow to begin with for our freeze-thaw winters. Around here, frost heave works on a shallow post every single year. Resetting one properly means digging it out, going deep enough, and setting it in concrete with the base kept out of standing water. If a whole run of posts has gone, that is an honest conversation about replacement rather than a repair, and you'll get told that plainly.

Pickets, boards, rails and storm damage

Individual broken pickets and cracked rails are the easiest repair there is — cut the damaged piece out, fit a replacement, and match the fastener pattern so it doesn't look patched. The thing worth knowing is that new wood will not match weathered wood for a season or two no matter what anybody tells you. It greys in and blends. We'll cut and fit the replacements, and if you want them stained to close the gap sooner we can talk about that when we quote.

What we don't do

We repair fences. We don't build new ones. A full fence installation means property line and survey questions, permits in some of these municipalities, HOA approvals, and a lot of digging — a fence contractor's job, and you'll get pointed to one rather than talked into a compromise. Chain link and vinyl repairs depend on the part: if a replacement piece is still available for your system we can usually fit it, and if it's a discontinued profile we'll tell you before you pay for a visit.