Tyler fence company
Chain link is the fence to beat for keeping dogs in and for fencing a lot of ground on a budget. We install galvanized and black vinyl-coated chain link with a top rail, tension wire along the bottom where dogs dig, and walk or drive gates. Privacy slats can be added later if you want to block the view.
Chain link is sold by the thickness of the wire, where a lower gauge number means heavier wire. Light residential mesh is fine for a garden, but a yard with a large dog that jumps on the fence, or a commercial lot where people lean on it, calls for heavier wire that holds its shape. Mesh opening size matters too: a smaller diamond is harder to climb and harder for a small dog to push its head through. Height runs from 4 feet for a side yard to 6 feet or more for a dog run or storage yard.
Galvanized chain link is zinc-coated steel with the familiar silver look, one of the least expensive fences per foot. Black vinyl-coated chain link bonds a plastic coating over the galvanized wire and is used with black-coated posts and fittings. It blends into trees and lawn from a short distance, which is why neighborhoods and clubs that turn down plain galvanized often accept it. Hide-A-Way Lake, for example, allows black or green coated chain link on lots in a golf-ball corridor while keeping galvanized off course lots.
A chain link fence is only as tight as its frame. Terminal posts at the ends, corners and gates are heavier than line posts and carry the stretch of the fabric through tension bars and bands. The top rail runs through the tops of the line posts and keeps the fabric from sagging between them. At the bottom, a tension wire is laced through the last row of diamonds and pulled tight between terminals, so the fabric can't be pushed out from underneath. On a dog run we can add a buried wire or a concrete mow strip along the base for diggers.
Privacy slats are strips woven vertically or diagonally through the mesh. They cut the view into a work yard, pool equipment area or neighbor's lot, and can go in at install or years later. They also turn an open fence into something that catches wind, so a slatted fence on an exposed line should have posts spaced and set for that load.
Tyler's code does not allow chain link in the front-yard setback, so on a residential lot it runs along the sides and rear, behind the front building line. Out front, pair it with ornamental iron or aluminum. On country acreage around Bullard, chain link can fence a house yard inside a larger pipe or wire pasture fence.
What sets the timeline? The length and height, galvanized or coated, bottom tension wire, and the number of gates.
These often come up on the same property, and can be quoted from the same visit:
Ornamental iron and aluminum fences for front yards, pools and HOA neighborhoods, with self-closing, self-latching pool gates.
Read more →Welded pipe, continuous-rail and wire fencing for pastures, horse and cattle property and rural home sites around Tyler.
Read more →Walk gates, single and double drive gates on steel frames, and automatic gate openers for driveways and acreage.
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