Over the past 10+ years of building fences in the Auburn, AL area, wooden fences, particularly wooden privacy fences have separated themselves as clearly the most popular fences built. While there are a seemingly endless amount of fence material options available to choose from, wooden fences offer a variety of advantages that many home owners, builders, and residential neighborhoods prefer in Auburn/Opelika. At Auburn Fence Company, we always try to make sure we’re paying attention to what our customers are most interested in so that we can provide the best fence construction for your home.
Style
Wooden privacy fences are often the most popular due 3 main ideas – style, function, and price. With natural wood finishes coming back into style of the years, wooden fence construction projects are increasing in popularity as well. Wooden fences have a vareity of accents and finishing options that can fit the design of your home as well, including wooden caps on the top of the fence itself for a sleeker, more polished look, black metal accents for hinges, handles, and gates, and plenty of options for stain colors and polishes.
Function
Wooden fences are typically used to keep animals and small children within the yard space, keep unwanted animals and guests out, and then also to provide a visual barrier from your yard to the rest of the outside world. That idea is why you will commonly see wooden privacy fences for homes that are on busy streets, or those that have pools in the back yard. While a chain link fences can provide the physical barrier for security and safety, only a wooden privacy fence is able to also provide the visual barrier. Similarly, many wooden farm fences or picket fences are only good for keeping larger animals contained, and could commonly have gaps that would allow smaller animals through.
Price
Of the materials used for privacy fences, wooden fence materials are typically the most cost effective, while offering a very high degree of aesthetic appeal. Though chain link fences are often cheaper than a wooden fence, if you would like a fence around you home that also provides that visual barrier from before, a wooden privacy fence is typically the material with the lowest up front cost. Plus, with wood almost always in great supply, wooden fence materials are easily sourced for repairs and fixes after the fact.
