Jones Custom Fences
Vinyl Fencing
Long privacy runs with no staining weekends, set on posts built to hold the panels straight for years.
No staining weekends, and a line that holds
Vinyl is the fence people choose when they've already owned a wood one and don't want to do it twice. There's no stain, no re-coat every few seasons, no boards to swap out when one splits. What it trades for that convenience is that it can't hide a mistake in the framing the way wood can. A dog ear picket run forgives a slightly out-of-plumb post, because the eye reads the texture of the boards before it reads the line. A vinyl panel is smooth and uniform, so any post that's off by even a little shows up as a visible kink in an otherwise straight run. We set vinyl posts to the same depth and the same discipline as timber posts, concrete footing and all, because the panels are only ever as straight as what's holding them.
Georgia heat, and when vinyl isn't the right call
Vinyl doesn't rot, doesn't need re-staining, and won't grey out the way an unsealed wood fence can. It does expand and contract with Georgia's summer heat, which is exactly why the panel-to-post connections need room to move rather than being pinned rigid, and why a poorly installed vinyl fence can start to buckle or pop out of its rail after a hot summer. It's not always the right answer either. On a run with a lot of grade change, a fence that has to step or rack to follow the ground, wood generally handles that terrain better than rigid vinyl panels do. We'll tell you honestly when your yard is better served by timber, because a fence that fights the ground it's set in is a fence you'll be calling someone about within a year.
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What holds up over a long run
The longer the run, the more a small framing error compounds, and vinyl shows that faster than any other material we install. A post set a half inch off true at one end of a hundred-foot line will telegraph into every panel between there and the other end. We set corner and end posts first on a vinyl job, string the line the same way we would for ranch rail, and then work the field posts to that string rather than eyeballing panel by panel. It takes longer than just running panels down the fence line, and it's the difference between a vinyl fence that reads straight from the street in ten years and one that starts to wave within two summers.
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Not sure vinyl is the right fit?
Plenty of Warner Robins yards do better with wood privacy fencing on uneven ground, or ranch rail fencing along an open frontage. See the full list of services or request a free estimate and Eric will look at your ground before recommending a material.