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Finished 140 feet of cedar privacy fence on the west side of the neighbourhood this week. The old one was eleven years old and leaning, and the reason was not the boards — it was the posts. They had been set in dirt with a shallow concrete collar, so water sat at the ground line and rotted every one of them at the same height. This run is on steel posts set thirty inches with concrete the full depth. The panels will age; the posts should not. If you push on your fence at the top rail and it moves more than an inch, that is the same problem.

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Full tear-off finished in three days on a 1978 ranch. The decking was in better shape than we expected for the age — only four sheets needed replacing, which is unusual. Ice and water shield went down on the valleys and the eaves, then felt, then architectural shingles. The part nobody photographs: we ran the magnet over the driveway and the lawn twice at the end of each day, because the homeowner has two dogs and there is no version of this job where that is optional. Three days start to finish, and nobody had to move out.

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January is the only month of the year we can start a job the week you call. From April through October we are booking four to six weeks out. Right now the schedule is open, the crews are here, and the same job takes the same number of days without waiting for a slot. If you have been putting something off since last summer, this is the cheapest month to stop putting it off — not because we discounted it, but because you are not paying for it twice with a winter of it getting worse. Call the office or message the page.

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Hiring an installer, and I would rather describe the job than sell it. Six-thirty start at the yard, not on site. Four tens through the summer, which is a long day in August and a three-day weekend every week. Travel radius is about forty minutes and roughly one week a month is farther. Pay range is in the comments. Tools supplied. No experience required for this seat — we have trained two of the four people currently running crews. Come by the yard before three on a weekday or message the page.

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After last night, three things worth doing this morning before you call anyone. Walk the yard and look for granules and shingle pieces — that tells you more than looking at the roof from the ground. Check the north and west slopes, which took the wind. And look inside at the ceilings near any exterior wall, because a leak shows up there before it shows up anywhere else. If you find damage, call your insurer first. They will tell you what they need documented, and doing that in the right order saves a lot of trouble later. We are booking inspections this week, but do the first two steps regardless of who you use.

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If two bids on the same roof are four thousand apart, it is almost never the labour. It is usually three line items. One is the underlayment — synthetic versus felt, and whether ice and water shield goes anywhere beyond the minimum. Two is whether the bid includes replacing decking, or says decking is extra and then finds eight sheets. Three is whether flashing is being reused or replaced. Ask both bidders those three questions in writing. Sometimes the cheaper one is genuinely cheaper. Often it is the same job with two of those three left out. We will happily lose a bid to someone quoting the same scope.

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Day three, which is always the day the homeowner regrets calling us. The old deck is out, the ledger is off, and we found what we usually find on a house this age: the original flashing was doing nothing and the rim joist behind it had been wet for a long time. That is a two-day detour and it is the whole reason this job existed. Framing goes back tomorrow. Day three always looks worse than the before photo. It is supposed to.

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Somebody left a review this week that said we left the yard cleaner than we found it. Of everything anyone has written about us, that is the one we would pick. The work itself is what you pay for and you should be able to assume it. The state of the yard at five o'clock is the part that is entirely a choice, and it is the part that tells you how a company runs when nobody is watching. Magnet over the driveway twice, every day, every job. It costs ten minutes.

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Material went up about eleven per cent this spring and our estimates went up with it. What moved: lumber, fasteners and anything composite. What did not move: labour rates, and the price of a repair call, which is still the same as it was in 2024. We held the old numbers through the winter on stock we had already bought. That stock is gone. If you have an estimate from us dated before March, we will honour it through the end of next month.