Local Fence Contractor in Selma CA - Fences Built for the Valley

Selma is a compact working-class city of about 24,000 people in Fresno County, surrounded on all sides by productive farmland. The majority of housing here is single-family, owner-occupied, and built between the 1950s and the 1990s. That means a lot of fences in Selma are aging - original wood on ranch-style homes that has been through fifty or sixty years of Valley weather without being properly maintained. Concrete block walls around yards are also common on older properties, and when those crack or shift, the repair work is different from anything you would see in a newer suburb.

The climate here does real damage to exterior materials. Selma summers are dry and extreme - temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for stretches of a week or more are routine, and the UV load on anything sitting in the open is among the highest in California. From November through February, dense tule fog settles over the Valley and keeps wood surfaces damp for days at a time, working moisture into any board that was not properly sealed. Under all of it, the clay-heavy soil expands in wet winters and contracts in dry summers, putting lateral stress on fence posts year after year. A contractor who does not account for all three of these conditions will install a fence that looks fine at first and causes problems before long.

Selma is a city of about 24,000 residents in Fresno County, sitting at the center of the San Joaquin Valley along the Highway 99 corridor. The city has built its identity around agriculture - it calls itself the Raisin Capital of the World, and the surrounding farmland still produces a significant share of the country's raisin crop. The community is tight-knit and working-class, with a strong majority of owner-occupied homes where people have deep roots. Most of the housing stock is single-story ranch-style construction on modest lots, with stucco or wood exteriors that reflect the building patterns of the 1950s through 1980s.

The older blocks near downtown Selma along High Street have homes from the early and mid-1900s - smaller lots, mature trees, and original infrastructure that has aged in place for decades. Newer subdivisions on the north and east sides of town were built from the 1990s through the 2000s with larger floor plans and more consistent lot sizes. The city has a small but active commercial district, and many residents commute to Fresno via Highway 99 for work and shopping. We serve customers throughout all of these neighborhoods, and we also work regularly in nearby Fresno to the north and Kingsburg to the northwest.