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I'm buying a house where I can only use a made made or synthetic fencing material, and it has to look the same from both sides.
Do any of you know of any fencing material other than vinyl that is a man made material? I'm not a huge vinyl fence fan, but can't think of anything else I could use.
I'm buying a house where I can only use a made made or synthetic fencing material, and it has to look the same from both sides.
Do any of you know of any fencing material other than vinyl that is a man made material? I'm not a huge vinyl fence fan, but can't think of anything else I could use.
I imagine that the regulation was adopted precisely to ban chain link.
OP, that vinyl fence is the sine qua non for rural pioneers whose sensibilities are much more refined and sophisticated than yours or mine. It may look like ****, especially around an older, restored house but that's OK.
Just like my investor neighbor who brags about her historic house beside me. Covered up the original German lap siding with flat vinyl. It's now "updated".
I imagine that the regulation was adopted precisely to ban chain link.
Hey - I'm just following the reg. I could also suggest aluminium or steel sheets. I would almost want to do it just to thumb my nose at the bad ordinance writers.
The problem (as you know) isn't writing the regs to cover the obvious cases but to cover the devious ones so that you get the result that you intend.
I agree that vinyl has come a long way and is becoming the prefered fencing material (our town is now using it around SWM areas. Like any other material you get what you pay for. the cheaper stuff looks cheap. The good stuff can look like wood or any material you want it to.
I'm buying a house where I can only use a made made or synthetic fencing material,
and it has to look the same from both sides. Do any of you know of any ...?
Chain link is man-made. I think it sounds like it's adopted to ban wood fences... which is really strange.
Not really. Consumer-grade wood is crap these days, nowhere more so than in fencing materials. Even spending extra in materials and using high-quality construction results in a fence that looks cheap from day one and ages rapidly, with discolored, warped and broken boards.
I live in an area with largely wooden fencing from zero to 40 years old. Hardly any of it looks good, barring a few newer runs where the builder clearly went with exceptionally heavy, hand-selected planks. And then it just looks like cheap suburban fencing, no frills.
Vinyl is nice stuff. Cheap vinyl looks like cheap vinyl. Better stuff is about as attractive, durable and "enhancing" as you can get these days.
Chain link is specifically mentioned as not allowed. Welded wire doesn't meet the "same on both sides" requirement, unless, I suppose, I wanted to string wire on both sides of the posts, and use metal posts instead of wood.
But yes, chain link is definitely a man made material.
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