Wind Casualties East of the 205
When a strong easterly sets in, the flat open stretches toward Fisher's Landing and Cascade Park take it first, and by morning the neighborhood group chat is a gallery of horizontal fences. The failures sort into two families. Panels torn free of solid posts are the easy family: we rebuild the span with better fastening and it goes back stronger than the original. Posts snapped or rotated out of the ground are the expensive family, because the problem lives below grade where the first builder saved money. We repair both, and on any east-facing rebuild we quietly harden the details: posts buried deeper than the originals, closer intervals along the exposed stretch, and fastening that lets a panel work in a gust without letting go of it.
Whole Streets Aging Out at Once
Much of Clark County's housing arrived in big waves, and the fences arrived with it: entire subdivisions fenced by the builder in a single season, with identical materials on identical footings. Thirty years on, those lines fail on the same calendar, which is why one street can produce five repair calls in a spring. We help owners think past the single broken panel. Sometimes the right move is a targeted fix that buys several more years, sometimes it is replacing the skeleton while keeping sound boards, and we lay out both prices without steering. When wind or a falling branch caused the damage, we photograph everything before touching it, write an itemized scope a claims office can process, and keep copies on file in case questions surface months later. Owners handle their own policy conversations; we make the paperwork easy to hand over.
The Order of Operations on a Repair Call
You call or write, we ask for a few phone photos, and for straightforward damage we can often rough in a price before anyone drives anywhere. On site, we confirm what is broken and what is about to be, then put a firm written figure in your hands. Work gets sequenced around your claim when an insurer is involved, meaning demolition waits until the documentation is captured. The crew arrives with lumber, hardware, and concrete on the truck, finishes most repairs in a single day, and hauls the wreckage away. Washington sales tax appears as a separate line, and the visit that produces the quote costs you nothing.
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