Are Vinyl Fences The Best Value in Fencing Today

Barry Unruh

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These days, PVC vinyl offers homeowners so much more than what you see at the neighborhood home improvement store. Choice of colors, wood-embossed textures and practically infinite combinations of styles and accents gives you complete control over the look and feel of your fence, deck, or porch. Quality Enduris® vinyl products offer you extreme durability with a lifetime guarantee, and drastically cut maintenance time and costs. To learn more about vinyl fences visit: http://www.enduris.com/

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• Publié par: vinylfences
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• Langue: Français

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Are Vinyl Fences The Best Value in Fencing Today?

Have you been paging through the flyers in

Sunday’s newspaper looking at all the options for

fencing your yard? Most of the options in the flyer

are made from a variety of different woods. Some

are pressure treated, some are listed as

weatherproof, and others are a little less defined.

Vinyl fences may not even be an option showing up

in the flyer, which is a bit tragic. Vinyl fencing may

be the best value you can find.

Do You Want Value or Low Price?

This is where people really get trapped. They see the slightly lower cost of installing a wood fence and

assume it means a greater value. They forgot to figure the added cost of painting or sealing the fence.

They probably ignored the difference in time required for cutting pieces.

It is almost without doubt anyone believing a wood fence is the best value ignored future maintenance

needs. The lowest price option over a couple years suddenly becomes the highest priced option.

How Could Vinyl Fences Be Lower Cost than Wood?

Do a quick search and check the latest price for a gallon of wood sealer. Figure out how many gallons

you will need to coat your entire fence. Now read the can carefully. How often does it say to repeat the

application? Most times it is a minimum of annually, sometimes twice per year. Multiply your original

cost of sealant times 5 years. How much did you just add to your cost?

Now, the next step in figuring the real cost of your fence starts with slat replacement. How many

boards are going to rot, be damaged by insects, or be broken by over aggressive children playing?

Figure replacing about 5 to 10 percent of your boards over the course of 5 years. Add that to your cost

of the sealant.

For the last step, how many hours will you spend

painting the sealant on the fence? How many

hours to replace damaged wood once or twice per

year? Take your estimate and multiply it by $20.

You are worth at least $20/hour.

Total this figure

along with the wood and sealant. Suddenly you

have a very big number.

Vinyl Fences Require Almost Zero Maintenance

Suddenly we can see the big difference maker.

Vinyl fences do not require sealant. They do not

rot, get attacked by insects, suffer from weather damage, and are tough as steel. In five years your

maintenance will consist of using a garden hose to rinse off the dust.

Are you beginning to understand why vinyl fences are the greatest value in fences today?

Cost and Value Are Not the Only Criteria

If it came down to only cost and value then your choice might already be tilting towards vinyl, but there

is another factor at play, the beauty of your fencing project. Did your mind just say “Ah ha, wood does

have an advantage?” If

you thought this, you may have just made one more mistake. A vinyl fence is

almost indistinguishable from a wood fence. Step a few feet away and you will be confident you are

looking at a beautiful wood fence. The only difference is next year or five years from now the

vinyl

fences

will look the same. The wood fence will be weathered, damaged, and ready for replacement.

The choice is yours, long term beauty and value, or the wooden alternative.