Modesto is a city of roughly 220,000 people with a housing stock that skews older - a large share of homes were built in the postwar decades through the 1970s and 1980s. Those single-story ranch-style homes have been through 40 to 80 wet-dry cycles in the clay soils that underlie most of the city. Clay soil expands when winter rains arrive and contracts hard during the long dry summer, and that repeated movement is the most common cause of leaning fence posts, cracked concrete flatwork, and shifting driveways on Modesto properties. A fence contractor who does not account for this soil behavior will install posts that start leaning within a few years.

Modesto also covers a range of property types that other Central Valley cities do not. The older neighborhoods near downtown and Modesto Junior College have a high concentration of rental properties with older fencing that has accumulated deferred maintenance. The newer subdivisions on the north and west sides of the city - built from the 1990s through the 2000s - have two-story homes with smaller yards and different fencing needs than the original ranch-home neighborhoods. Commercial corridors along Highway 99 have business properties with security and vehicle access requirements that go well beyond residential work. A contractor who has worked across all of these Modesto contexts brings a different level of preparedness to each job.

Modesto is the county seat of Stanislaus County and home to roughly 220,000 people, making it one of the larger cities in California's Central Valley. It sits about 90 miles east of San Francisco, 65 miles south of Sacramento, and is surrounded by some of the most productive agricultural land in the world - almond orchards, vineyards, and dairy farms are immediate neighbors to the city's residential edges. The city is anchored by well-known landmarks including the Modesto Arch on 10th Street downtown, which has displayed the city motto since 1912, and the E&J Gallo Winery headquarters, which has been part of the city's economy and identity since 1933. The housing stock in Modesto is predominantly single-story ranch-style homes on flat lots - the kind of properties that have been in the same families for decades and carry the maintenance history of that time.

Modesto's neighborhoods cover a wide range. Older streets near downtown and around Modesto Junior College have a mix of owner-occupied homes and rental properties, many with fencing that reflects decades of weather and deferred upkeep. The north and west sides of the city have newer subdivisions from the 1990s and 2000s with two-story homes and tile roofs - properties that are now old enough to need their first round of serious maintenance and exterior repairs. We serve homeowners and businesses throughout Modesto, and we also cover nearby Ceres to the south and Turlock further south along the Highway 99 corridor.