Out here a fence earns its keep. Straight-line winds come across open country with nothing to slow them down, the ground heaves posts as it dries and swells, and the summer sun cooks cedar until it splits. We reset leaning posts in fresh concrete set deep enough to hold, replace broken pickets and rails to match what you've got, and rebuild the sections a windstorm laid flat so the fix blends in instead of standing out like a patch.
Gates get real attention, because a sagging gate is the thing you fight with every single day. We square the frame, add an anti-sag kit or a diagonal brace, reset hinges and latches, and make sure a backyard or pool gate swings shut and latches the way it should.
Caliche is the hidden factor in every post hole out here. That hard-packed caprock layer under a lot of Amarillo lots is brutal to dig but a real asset once you are through it, because a footing keyed into caliche holds against uplift far better than one sitting in loose fill. We dig to reach it where we can, so the wind is levering a post genuinely locked into the ground.
Fence cost depends on how much is rebuilt versus reset. Straightening and re-concreting a couple of leaning posts is modest; rebuilding a long run flattened by a windstorm, or replacing rotted rails and pickets, is more material and labor. Gate work varies with bracing versus a full rebuild. Corner and gate posts, which carry the most load, get deeper footings that cost a bit more but save the repeat call. Staining adds a step. A whole-perimeter refresh in one mobilization beats piecemeal patches after each front.
Almost always. The board-on-board and standard cedar privacy styles used all over Amarillo are easy to match, and new cedar weathers toward your existing gray within a season, or we can stain it to blend right away.
Usually a mix of worn hinges and a frame that's racked out of square, sometimes helped along by a post that's shifted in our soil. We square the frame, brace it, and reset the post if it's the one that moved.
That's the whole game out here. We set corner and gate posts deeper and in more concrete than a builder crew running on a schedule usually bothers with, so the next big blow doesn't lay them over.
They are leaning with the prevailing wind. The strong spring blows load the fence from the same quarter for days, and a post in a shallow footing slowly walks over that direction. Resetting those posts deeper, in a wider footing keyed below grade, stops the annual lean instead of just standing them back up.
It is, more here than most places. The intense high-plains sun and dry air gray and check bare cedar fast, and a penetrating stain slows that splitting while shedding wind-driven dust and moisture. We clean the boards first so the stain soaks in rather than sealing a layer of red dirt against the wood.
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