Fencing
A fence does three jobs at once — marks the line, keeps what you want in, and keeps what you do not want out. Which of the three matters most changes the height, the spacing and the material, and it is worth settling before anyone orders cedar.
We set posts for a wet climate and for the freeze that arrives most winters. Almost every fence that fails around here fails at the post, below ground, years before the boards give out.
What This Covers
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Cedar, pressure-treated, or a mix, built on site rather than dropped in as pre-made panels. The line gets walked and marked first, posts are set to depth, then rails and boards — so the fence follows the ground instead of fighting it.
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Six-foot solid cedar is the standard here, and good cedar handles the damp far better than the budget alternatives. Board-on-board or a tight butt joint, depending on how much screening you actually want and how much airflow the run needs.
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Split boards, sagging rails, leaning sections and gates that no longer latch. We repair fences we did not build, and we say so plainly when the posts have gone and another round of repairs will cost more than replacing the run properly.
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Taking the old fence out, pulling the old footings, and hauling it away before the new line goes in. Leaving the previous concrete in the ground is the usual reason a replacement ends up crooked or off the line.
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The gate is the part that breaks, because it is the only part that moves. Braced frames, posts sized for the swing, and hinges and latches rated for the actual weight rather than whatever came in the kit.
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Holes dug below the frost line, gravel at the base so the post is not standing in water, and concrete crowned to shed rain rather than hold it. This is the whole difference between a fence at eight years and a fence at twenty.
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Racked to follow the slope, or stepped down it — the choice changes both the look and the gap left underneath. On steeper ground the fence sometimes belongs on top of a short retaining wall, which we build as well.
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Where the line actually runs, how tall you are allowed to build on it, and what the setback is on a corner lot. The rules differ by city, and a fence in the wrong place is an expensive thing to move afterwards.
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The boards and rails are what you see, and they are rarely what fails. In this climate a fence goes when water sits around the post and rots it at ground level, or when the footing was never deep enough to hold through a freeze and a wet spring behind it.
Fencing goes in before the planting and the finish grading, never after. Digging post holes through a new lawn or a finished bed means repairing both, and moving posts and panels down a narrow side yard is far easier while the ground is still bare.
The same applies to irrigation. We check for sprinkler lines and drain runs before setting posts — a post driven through a mainline is a cheap thing to avoid and an expensive thing to find later.
CONTACT US
If you would like to request service or a consultation, please contact us by phone, email or use the form below.
Where We Work
From our base in Lynnwood we work across thirty cities in both counties. How tall a fence you may build, and how close to the street it is allowed to sit, is a local question that changes between jurisdictions — worth knowing before the posts go in rather than after.
Alderwood, WA
Bothell, WA
Edmonds, WA
Everett, WA
Lynnwood, WA
Marysville, WA
Mountlake Terrace, WA
Mukilteo, WA
North Creek, WA
Snohomish, WA
Auburn, WA
Bellevue, WA
Clyde Hill, WA
East Renton Highlands, WA
Federal Way, WA
Hunts Point, WA
Issaquah, WA
Kenmore, WA
Kent, WA
Kirkland, WA
Maple Valley, WA
Medina, WA
Mercer Island, WA
Newcastle, WA
Redmond, WA
Renton, WA
Sammamish, WA
Seattle, WA
Shoreline, WA
Woodinville, WA
How It Works
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Send the form or call (425) 648-9443 and tell us roughly how much fence you need and what it is for. Photos of the line, and of any fence already standing on it, help more than anything else you can send us.
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We walk the line, check the grade and the access for materials, talk through cedar against the alternatives, and confirm the height your city allows before quoting anything.
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Our own crew digs the holes, sets the posts and hangs the gates, and we stay reachable afterwards — including for board repairs and gate adjustments a few seasons down the line.
Free consultation across Kirkland, Lynnwood and Redmond, WA.
