When you visualize a new fence for your yard, home, or pool, you might imagine a white picket fence. Or, you might see an updated version of the fence you previously had. However, there are so many different types of fencing to choose from, all with different benefits that are worth considering once you decide that it’s time to install a new fence or update your current fence.
Fences are an important part of keeping your home, children, and pets safe, and provide your home with the necessary privacy. They also add an aesthetic value to a space beyond their functionality, so it’s important to choose the right fence for your home’s landscaping and look.
There are so many different types of fence to consider when choosing a fence for your home. Fencing Direct carries a number of different types of fencing to meet the values and desires of you and your family. Fencing Direct carries three primary types of fencing materials: aluminum, vinyl, and chain link. Each comes in a number of different styles, and offers its own strengths. This guide will help you decide what type of fencing is best for you.
Aluminum Fencing: The Right Type of Fence for Strength and Versatility
Aluminum is lightweight, but it’s extraordinarily strong. Aluminum is known for being a strong material, even though it weighs significantly less than other types of metal. The lightweight quality of aluminum fencing makes it more affordable because it’s easy to ship. Aluminum fencing is resistant to wind, weather, and pests or animals. It’s also naturally resistant to corrosion and rust, and therefore remains strong even though it requires very little maintenance. Aluminum fencing is fairly indestructible and can last for decades. Fencing Direct carries the sturdiest aluminum fencing products on the market. Some manufacturers even carry limited lifetime warranties.
Besides being incredibly strong, aluminum fencing is extremely versatile. Aluminum fencing can be adjusted to fit the landscape and ground level of your yard, even if the ground is uneven or sloped. Fencing direct carries aluminum fencing in a number of heights, colors, and style options, so it’s easy to choose the right look and style for you and your home. No matter what landscape your home sits on or what kind of fence you’re looking for, aluminum fencing carries enough versatility to meet you where you are.
Aluminum fencing has a number of other advantages as well. Aluminum fencing adds value to your property, even though it doesn’t cost much. It’s also good for the environment. Aluminum fences are made of recycled materials, like cans, car parts, and other products. Aluminum fencing is coated with an environmentally safe coating and therefore doesn’t damage the soil it touches. And finally, because aluminum is so lightweight, it’s fairly easy to install.
Vinyl Fencing: The Right Type of Fence for Privacy and Easy Installation
Vinyl fencing comes in many different shapes and styles, but it’s known for its ability to create a private space for you and your family to enjoy. Vinyl fencing structurally offers more privacy than aluminum or chain link fencing and comes in a number of styles. Fencing Direct carries vinyl fencing in picket, post and rail, and privacy styles. Each has a different look and offers a different level of privacy. The vinyl privacy fencing, however, is about as private as you can get. Privacy fencing creates a safe place for children to play and comes in a number of different styles so that you can get the look you want, even while maintaining privacy.
Vinyl fencing is also remarkably easy to install. In fact, many of the pieces of vinyl fencing snap together, allowing you to install it quickly and without much hassle. Other types of fencing can take weeks to install, but vinyl fencing can be constructed in as little as a single day. The fence rails snap into post slots, and the boards use an interlocking system to connect. The posts are easy to secure in the ground. Ultimately, it’s a very intuitive process that comes together quickly.
It’s worth noting that vinyl is also incredibly strong—vinyl is five times stronger than wood. Like aluminum, it’s also incredibly versatile, coming in numerous styles and colors to meet your aesthetic needs. It’s attractive and requires very minimal maintenance. Keeping it in good condition is often as simple as spraying it down with a hose.
Chain Link Fencing: The Right Type of Fence for Durability and Affordability
Chain link fencing is one of the most durable types of fencing, as it is made from heavy-duty steel. Chain link fences are weather sustaining, and natural elements like wind have a marginal effect on them, because open links allow wind and other elements to move through fencing, rather than knocking it down or damaging it. Chain link fencing is also galvanized to prevent rusting, and can last for well over 20 years.
Chain link fences are the most affordable types of fencing. They are inexpensive and easy to install—most chain link fences can be installed in a matter of hours. Because chain link fences don’t require maintenance or repairs, they remain cost-effective throughout their long life-span.
Fencing Direct carries chain link fencing in different colors, coatings (aluminum, zinc, or vinyl), and heights, so you can easily choose the right style for your home. The construction is easy enough to do yourself, with assistance, and they essentially require no upkeep at all.
Finding the Right Type of Fence for You
No matter what you value most, Fencing Direct carries quality fencing in a style that will meet the needs of you and your family. No matter what type of fence you choose, know that a new fence will give your home, backyard, or pool new life, and will create new functional spaces for you, your children, and your pets to play.
