Fence and gate repair
Fence and gate repair across Northwest Arkansas, from a team set aside for it.
A designated Fence Repair team comes out, assesses the damage and offers you solutions, on wood, chain link and ornamental iron.
Chapter 01
What wears a fence out in Northwest Arkansas
Fences here are hit from every direction. Summer thunderstorms push wind against a solid privacy run like a sail. Winter wind and snow bring limbs, and sometimes whole trees, down onto the boards. Humidity keeps wood damp, and damp wood is where rot starts in a post and where insects move in.
Then there is plain age. A gate latch wears out after years of daily use. Pine boards warp as they dry, and the lumber treatment changed about twenty years ago when the EPA phased out CCA, so the replacement treatments hold pine steady less well than the old stock did. Sooner or later a fence simply reaches the end of its life.
What we are called out for is usually one of a few things: a gate that drags or will not latch, a post that has rotted at the ground line, boards that have split or gone missing, a run that leans, or a section flattened by a fallen limb.
Storm-damaged fence flattened under fallen limbs in Rogers, Arkansas
How the repair team looks at a damaged fence
Privacy Fence has a designated Fence Repair team. They come out, assess the damage and offer you solutions, so the person looking at your fence is on the team whose job is repairs, not someone hoping to sell you a new one.
The team fixes broken gates and gate latches, rotted or broken posts, missing and broken pickets, leaning fences and storm damage. On chain link it straightens bent top rails. The work covers wood, chain link and ornamental iron fences.
A repair starts at the ground. A fence leans because a post has moved or rotted, and a new board nailed to a failed post only hides the problem for a season. So the look starts with the posts and what they sit in, and only then moves up to the pickets.
Chapter 03
Why gates fail first
A gate is the most used and most stressed part of a fence, so it is usually the first thing to drop, drag or stop latching.
A gate that sags or will not close is most often telling you about the hinge post or the hardware, not the boards. New gates here hang from 6x6 posts on three hinges with 4-inch screws, and a repair is the chance to rehang a tired gate the same way. One customer, Linda Newman, put it this way on Google: “They did a great job installing a new gate and repairing my other two gates.”
Repair or replace, said plainly
Most storm-damaged fences can be fixed. A few flattened sections, a handful of posts, a gate pulled out of square: those are repair jobs, and the repair team will tell you so even though a new fence would be the bigger job for us.
Sometimes replacing is the better spend. When posts are rotting along the whole run, when the boards have warped past straightening, or when the fence is at the end of its life, one repair after another only buys a few months. The team will tell you which side of that line your fence is on.
If it is the replacement side, the same company builds new wood, chain link and ornamental iron fences, and the old fence goes to a Class 4 construction landfill. We never burn it.
Privacy Fence, Inc. Arkansas contractor license 0156100427. Fully insured. Call (479) 751-7894 to describe the damage.
Damage to done
What the repair team finds, and what it leaves behind.
Frames from our own repair jobs. The first pair is one side yard before and after the old run was replaced.
Building new instead of repairing
Not sure if it is a repair?
Tell the team what happened to the fence.
Call (479) 751-7894, Monday to Friday 8 to 6 and Saturday 9 to noon, or send a message and tell us where the fence is and what happened to it.