Yep, after the fires, the fence guys are busier than a whore on payday. Out where my trailers are stored, part of the nice wood fence around my friend's property burned in the Creek fire. It's a really nice fence w some custom details, not sure if it's redwood because it's stained.
I'll take some photos when I get out there for the fence fans who drop into this thread, it was built as a spec house maybe 10 years ago by a guy w pretty good taste and the details like the fence all had some thought put into them.
He actually managed to get some fence guys off a web search to come out immediately after the fire a couple weeks ago and they weren't interested in the job because they did not know where to source the materials to match it, etc. It's a large perimeter fence and only part of it burned so replacing the whole thing would have been very expensive and a damn shame.
He's massaging his headache and ruminating w the fence contractor about wtf he should do, (his entire property is just open to the world w/o fence complete), when one of the guy's workers says, "why don't you call these guys?", while pointing to a small plaque on a section of the fence.
We could have had the whole thing torn down and rebuilt w/o anyone noticing the tiny plate w the original fence builders company name on it.
He called them immediately and they said, sure, they remember it well. He got to be their first customer in what I'm sure will be a line stretching years, they started rebuilding the burned sections the next day.
There are a couple lessons contained within, one of which is to sign your work somehow if you build custom stuff. You never know when someone might just be admiring it years later and want the same thing or similar.
