Fence & Gate Repair in Lakewood, CO

Posts are where fences live and die. Wood posts rot right at grade — the wet-dry line — and our expansive clay heaves shallow-set posts a little more each spring until the fence writes you a letter about it. A proper reset goes to honest depth, in concrete crowned so water runs away from the wood instead of pooling against it, and where the situation calls for it, a steel post wearing wood trim ends the rot cycle entirely. Fixing the three bad posts usually rescues the forty feet of fence attached to them.

Wind is the front range's fence editor. Chinooks and spring storms find the panel with the weak rail, and one blown-down section makes the whole fence look condemned when it's really a localized failure. Panel rebuilds reuse sound pickets where they'll blend, replace what's broken, and — where a run keeps failing — address why: solid-panel fences take enormous wind load, and small changes like picket gapping give the gust somewhere to go. New wood against ten-year gray gets the honest conversation too; it blends in a season or two, or stain evens it now.

Gates get their own line because they're the moving part — a fence's only machine. They sag because hinges pull out of softening posts, because the frame lacks diagonal bracing, or because the latch-side drop was inevitable geometry from day one. The fix is a solid hinge post, a braced frame — tension running the correct diagonal, which is the detail DIY gate kits get backwards — and hardware sized for the gate's weight. A gate that swings true and latches with one hand is a small daily luxury that costs an afternoon.