Anyone know fences?

[tmleadr03]

My neighbor is bitching cuz my fence, which his kids climb over and lean on to get balls out of my yard when I am not home, is sagging. He just happens to have a buddy who will repair it for 400 dollars.

I don't know fences, dont know if this is a good deal, and quite honestly even if it was the fact he keeps leaning over my fence to talk to me about it when I am doing something else makes me want to put it off. But from looking at it it seams that the posts are not dug in deep enough and causing the fence to not be able to support his kids and the weight of the fence at the same time.

Hard job? Good price for someone else doing it?

[stenz]

How many feet need repaired?

[Graves]

Either way he should be picking up half the tab. I'd get another quote from one of our guys here (plenty folks looking for work right now) and go from there.

[Great-Kazoo]

his kids damage you fence and wants you to pay for it. i suggest as others did a 50/50 split. OR install the next fence with sharp pickets.

[theGinsue]

As you've already been asked, how many feet are getting repaired. The $400 is a hell of a lot of money for ..say 20' of fence. But, if it's 90', it's a great deal.

his kids damage you fence and wants you to pay for it. i suggest as others did a 50/50 split. OR install the next fence with sharp pickets.

This is why when I put my fence in I put the pretty picket side out - to keep others from climbing on MY fence. I also put it 1 - 2" inside the property line on the side that my neighbors would share (neighbor to the back didn't want a fence - until a year later when I already put in the back portion), and I had no neighbor to my side when I build the fence. I had to pony up the dough for the entire fence - but I put it in myself and I can guarantee the house is falling down before the posts do (long story here).

Of course, my fence pickets need to be replaced and I'll have to sneak onto my neighbors property when they are all gone to remove the pickets and install new ones.

Fences are costly and you can typically estimate double material cost minimum if someone else does the work.

Ownership of the actual fence dictates who is responsible for repairs unless a second party has caused damage to it.
Typically the side the post's are on is the ownership side. At least that is the way it was explained to me.

Sounds like I hung mine properly to reduce the claim of "my fence"/"your fence" without getting someone out to survey the property line.

[tmleadr03]

As you've already been asked, how many feet are getting repaired. The $400 is a hell of a lot of money for ..say 20' of fence. But, if it's 90', it's a great deal.



This is why when I put my fence in I put the pretty picket side out - to keep others from climbing on MY fence. I also put it 1 - 2" inside the property line on the side that my neighbors would share (neighbor to the back didn't want a fence - until a year later when I already put in the back portion), and I had no neighbor to my side when I build the fence. I had to pony up the dough for the entire fence - but I put it in myself and I can guarantee the house is falling down before the posts do (long story here).

Of course, my fence pickets need to be replaced and I'll have to sneak onto my neighbors property when they are all gone to remove the pickets and install new ones.

Fences are costly and you can typically estimate double material cost minimum if someone else does the work.

Up above the picture in that post I answered how long. About 60 ft of fence. My tape measure is under a lot of crap at the moment and I havent actually measured it.

[tmleadr03]

How many feet need repaired?

I would say about 60 total. Depends if the entire side needs to be redone or just the part sagging.

This is the worst part of it. The other part does not sag as much or as far along the length of the fence. There are two main parts and the middle part between them is at a bit of an angle.

One of the things he said was that it was due to the previous owner just putting up the boards that you see. The weight of them pulled the fence down. I find it hard to wrap my mind around that one. But someone with better knowledge would have to educate me on that. The way I see it it would only happen that way with some pressure to start the tilting, or if the fence was already tilted.

[Graves]

His buddy's price seems pretty high to me. Honestly, I'd see how he felt about writing you a check for $200 if you fixed it yourself.

[tmleadr03]

His buddy's price seems pretty high to me. Honestly, I'd see how he felt about writing you a check for $200 if you fixed it yourself.

Thats the thing. I don't know fences but I do know scams. When someone says "Oh yay my buddy is giving you a good price, you know it would be like twice that if you went a big company they charge like 30 dollars a ft. To fix this they would charge you like 1000 dollars. You know I would even be willing to buy the concrete for it for you man." Um...

Then they go back to speaking Spanish to each other, which I do not speak. I smell fishing for dumb gringo.

[gnihcraes]

Kayne's Fence
8600 West 10th Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80215-4805
(303) 232-4430 ‎

awesome guy(s) they'll fix it up cheap and quick. They did mine when the illegals ran it down, they did another neighbors when the kids ran a car through it.

He's the one that helped the old man in wheatridge where the illegals took his trailer and he shot one of them.