re: Not even tradesmen want to work. Keep getting ghosted for a fence repair.

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I need about 1/2 of a fence and plies replaced. First guy wanted $5k to do the entire length of 60 ft. and completely disregarded what I need.

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Respectfully this isn’t really believable. If it’s truly 60 ft, that’s like 2 hours work including showing up and packing up. I see you didn’t want to pay $5k. Well that’s absurdly high, but also if your fence is fricked up replacing the entire thing may have been the only good option to repair it properly.

What everyone is forgetting in here is that new construction is booming and has been for a couple years. When new construction is booming, anyone worth a damn in the trades is doing that. It’s a hell of a lot easier work but more importantly most of the time it’s a full day or multiple days and it’s easier to plan/ quote. They’d rather talk to the GC they work with weekly than a random crazy homeowner.

The other issue is like said, small jobs are just hard to make it worth it. Most guys are looking for full day or multiple day jobs. A 2 hour or 4 hour job has to be combined with another job of the same length that close by. You can’t do a 2 hour job, drive an hour for a 1 hour job, then drive back for an hour to another job and not charge an arm and a leg.

For a simple dog ear fence, that should run less than $2k. That includes demolition/removing the old fence and installing the new fence.