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Don’t Get Fenced In Fences are no longer an either/or debate - options are literally coming out of the woodwork. From the up-and-coming wood-plastic composite fence to the popular vinyl variety, fences aren’t what they used to be - they’re better  You can have your cake and eat it to (as well as select the icing and create the design) in today's outdoor fencing industry. Image courtesy A Vinyl Fence And Deck What’s growing fast along Eastern shorelines, winding its way into Mid-Atlantic horse country and lining more than a few residential streets in Salt Lake City? Would you believe vinyl fencing? Barely 30 years since vinyl fencing hit the home market, experts say it has now penetrated as much as 30 percent of the residential market in some regions of the country. And it shows no signs of slowing. “Vinyl fencing has really grown more in the last five years than in the previous 10 years,” says Steve Van Kouteren, a principal with Principia Partners, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm that recently released a report on the fencing industry. “It has to do with the overall acceptance of plastic building products. That acceptance has grown quite a bit since the mid-1990s.” Gene Kalb, publisher of the online magazine FenceWeek, sees two reasons behind the trend: lifestyle changes and improvement in the quality of vinyl fencing. “People are sort of expanding [their] living space into the outdoors. That makes the privacy fences much more of an issue,” Kalb says. “The quality of the vinyl fence is consistent with that. The quality has also improved over the years in terms of fading and durability.” Other benefits include low maintenance, a better aesthetic than chain link and low-quality wood fencing, and the fact that vinyl fencing does not mold or need repainting. These qualities have helped vinyl fences expand into varying geographic areas of the country, both urban and rural alike. “In areas where wood would degrade quickly, such as shoreline and other areas, that’s where you’ll find vinyl fencing,” says Van Kouteren. “The whole state of Florida is a big vinyl fence market. So is the Long Island area of New York. For some reason, Utah is a big vinyl fencing market. Why Utah, I’m not quite sure. You can drive around Salt Lake City and find vinyl fencing.” Even residential horse farms of Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania are discovering the benefits of vinyl fencing. “It looks good, it’s stable, it lasts long and it’s not dangerous to horses,” says Van Kouteren. “They can’t be cut on it.” Not everyone is sold on vinyl fencing, though. “One of the downsides of vinyl is it looks like shiny plastic,” Van Kouteren says. “There’s a certain segment of the population that will never put up plastic. They just don’t like the way it looks.” Wood and metal still account for more than 70 percent of the materials used in the $3-billion residential fence market. This is particularly true in urban areas, Van Kouteren says. And don’t waste your time looking for vinyl fencing in Texas. “As one company rep put it to me, ‘I can take you to the one place where there’s a vinyl fence in Dallas,’“ Van Kouteren recalls. “They like their wood down there.” Both wood and vinyl fences may find a new challenge in the coming years: wood-plastic composite fencing. “The wood-plastic composites are also making inroads as an alternative to vinyl and wood,” says Kalb. “They’re a relatively new fencing. It’s similar in appearance to a wood fence but it has the maintenance advantages of the vinyl: It won’t rot and you won’t get termites.” Unlike vinyl fencing – which offers limited paint colors such as off-white and beige – wood-plastic composite fencing comes in darker colors that, well, look like wood. And for about the same price as high quality vinyl fencing. Overall, Americans can expect to see more vinyl and wood-plastic composite fencing in their neighborhoods. Principia’s recent study estimates demand for plastic fence materials in the North American residential market to be more than $600 million or nearly 25 percent of the total market in 2006. “Your going to see double digit growth in wood composite residential fencing for years,” says Van Kouteren. “Vinyl is still going to grow. It just has more restraints on where people will put it.” We’ll keep you posted. |
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