Temporary Fencing Helps Support San Francisco Bay Area Economy

It’s not sexy and you won’t find it in the Victoria’s Secret catalog, but temporary fencing is being Googled. Okay, there weren’t 100K searches for temporary fencing this week, but it was mentioned on over a dozen blogs.

Temporary fencing isn’t at the forefront of most people’s minds unless they have a construction site that needs securing, a sporting event coming up, a parade, a traffic reroute or some other need. Last time I added it all up we had about 1.31 gillion miles of various temporary fencing panels to supply the greater San Francisco Bay Area with (just kidding). We have miles and miles of fencing, but not in the gillions.

The temporary site service business is one of the many “invisible small businesses” that go unnoticed. And yet, it is the small business network that employ more people and pump more money into the local economies than the big boys.

Searches on temporary fencing in Monterey, San Jose, Mountain View and Fremont won’t burn up the servers at Google, but like everything else - when people want something, the Internet is usually the first place they go to find it and we at Hanson & Fitch are here in cyberspace ready to respond to your temporary fencing needs.

The summer of 2008 is turning into a summer of challenges in the temporary fencing & portable toilet business for us at Hanson & Fitch.

First the good news!

Business is booming. We are working 7 days a week to service demand from our clients. Some of our competitors have gone out of business or downscaled their business as a result of the ripple effect in the construction industry. This coupled with the success of our marketing efforts has helped our business to explode.

The bad news is, of course, GAS PRICES. Soaring fuel prices are hurting everyone and we are no exception. We are endeavoring to keep our prices stable. We are not planning on charging for checked baggage, but some adjustments may need to be made.

We remain committed to providing the best temporary site services at competitive and reasonable rates. Our clients are our business!

On the lighter side of the portable toilet business -

• Pa. Crews Rescue Nude Man Stuck In Portable Potty
• Man naps in portalet
• Fox’s Smith: People who get stuck in toilets are ‘a little crazy

I received a call from Keri Steinberg from Jansport Backpacks this week and they are having an event this Friday night at  the Mezzanine in San Francisco.  Jansport, Om Records & Mezzanine are presenting Spring Sessionsfrom 10pm - 4am.  Artists that will be featured will be the Hudson Supreme Beings of Leisure, Samantha James, J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science & Black Spade.  

Keri had inquired to see if we had  temporary fencing that could be used as a cool way to hang her products from the wall that would be displayed during the event.  She had a very specific size that she needed and that it could only be a 6×6 panel chain link fence.  I explained to her that we did have that in stock and that we would be happy to set it up and deliver it as soon as she needed it.  Apparently, she had called a few companies and they did not have panels shorter than 10′ long.   I explained that we had all different sizes of fence that could accommodate her and that we would be ready for her next call!

Comprehensive Builders is a contractor from Utah, that specializes in all types construction and design of new facilities that are located in highly visible locations. We received a call from their lead point of contact Danny that had requested information about our services.

He explained that the project was a highly visible property on Mowry Avenue in Fremont, CA and that he would be receiving sign ed contracts within a day and needed temporary fencing and a portable toilet for the project.

We exchanged information and the next day he called back and explained that we had the most competitive full service bid for all of the site services that he needed and that we were to schedule him ASAP.

Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services was able to meet his criteria of a complete installation in 48 hours and there will probably be additional fencing that will be needed as the project continues. We are pleased to have been introduced to Danny and his team from Comprehensive Builders and we thank them for their business.

The Pro Am Golf Tournament is over, but people are still sharing their great Monterey experience!

This years AT&T Golf Event at Pebble Beach drew record crowds. A week of heaven sent weather that made the event extra special.

We met people from all around the San Francisco Bay Area and many mentioned that the energy of the ocean, warm wind, and sunshine put smiles on the faces of most spectators. The best weather was definitely seen on the final days, Saturday & Sunday.

The feedback was that the golf courses were in excellent condition. The announcers of the television broadcast repeatedly said, “…they are in the best shape I have ever seen”.

Along with the manicured lawns of Pebble Beach, Poppy Hills & Spanish Bay, were the friendly staff and employees of all three world class facilities. This year is going to be hard to beat and now it is time to take all the tents, temporary fencing, and grand stands down for another day!

Todd Fitch and Sergio Gomez led the team of professional scoreboard installers today to install the legendary Calligraphy Board at the AT&T Pebble Beach Golf Tournament. The Calligraphy board is a very special part of the event, largely due to the effort that it takes to keep it current/accurate. In most of today’s sporting events you will find spectators looking at electronic screens to capture the day’s happening and player results. The Calligraphy board is a work of art and is updated with beautiful Calligraphy handwriting to capture the essence of how a player performed.

This style of record keeping brings the audience back to the day’s when golf was first organized. It is a real treat and one that is often over looked during the event at Pebble Beach.

Today, Hanson & Fitch received a call from Robert Vargas at the Seville Group of Monterey County.

Robert needed around 500 feet of temporary fence for Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Salinas, CA. He also needed some custom gates built for the job and we would need to install the temporary fence first and then measure the openings in which to make the gates.

The challenging aspect of the job was the fact that all of the temporary fence need to be driven into asphalt - much more time consuming than setting temporary fence panels in stands.

Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services is currently installing temporary fence on and around (3) three golf courses on the Monterey Peninsula for the up and coming AT&T Golf Event.

The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is a 72-hole PGA TOUR golf championship dating back to the 1930’s when Bing Crosby gathered a ‘few friends’ to raise money for charity… and have a little fun.

Monterey and Pebble Beach are known for golf. Stunning views, exclusive clubs, prime real estate and incredible landscapes have long attracted the rich and famous. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro AM is played in the first months of each new year and is a hot ticket for tourists. Golf greats like Phil Mickelson. Vijay Singh, Justin Leonard and others play the Pebble Beach Links as well as celebrities like Kevin Costner, Al Michaels, Kenny G, Dan Marino and other notables.

A premiere event like this that will be televised worldwide receives the same attention to detail and customer service as every other job we do. The wind and storms have made this installation more difficult than in years past, primarily due to the high wind that comes off of the ocean. We have had to send crews out to reinstall fence from the prior day and in some cases more than once to the same site.

Hanson & Fitch, Inc. was hired again this year to set temporary fence for office for the San Francisco New Years Eve Event.

The event has traditionally brought thousands of people to the Embarcadero to watch the firework/pyrotechnic show at the strike of midnight.

We typically set up the fence a few days before the event to allow the many other vendors that will be bringing their services to the Embarcadero time to set up their booths for this very exciting night.

Our image of the fence panels we supplied was taken a few days before the event. The weather on New Year’s Eve was excellent and all had a great time.

Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services had the request to deliver (8) panels to the Oakland Zoo today to help with the containment of the zoo animals.

With all of the media attention over the recent tragedy at the San Francisco Zoo, we took special note as to the use of the panels that were delivered to the Oakland Zoo on Mountain Blvd.  We were told that the fence panels were going to be used as temporary fencing for certain walkways in and around the zoo during construction.  

This is the second request that Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services has had from a zoo for temporary fencing and we believe that there will be a trend for fencing that will be used as security and crowd containment in and around local zoos in the Bay Area.