Aluminum and ornamental fence.
Powder-coated black pickets on a flat rail. Looks like wrought iron, doesn't rust like it, and it is the usual answer around a pool.
- Powder-coated aluminum
- Pool-code spacing available
- Does not rust
- From $42 per foot
Vertical aluminum pickets set into horizontal rails, powder-coated — most often black. It gives you the look of a wrought iron fence without the part where iron rusts and has to be wire-brushed and repainted every few years.
Because you can see through it, it does not close a yard off visually. That is the point: it holds a boundary, contains a dog or a pool, and leaves the view. On a sloped yard it is also the most forgiving material we install — the panels rack, so the rails can follow the grade in a continuous line instead of stepping down in visible jumps.
It is the most expensive per foot on this site. What you are paying for is the finish and the fact that nothing about it needs maintaining.
Heights, styles and pool code
- 4 ft is the common residential height, and the usual height around a pool
- 5 and 6 ft where you want more of a barrier or a taller front boundary
- Flat top, spear top or arched picket profiles
- Walk and double drive gates in matching panels
- Pool-code spacing, with the picket gaps and the bottom clearance set so the fence meets barrier requirements, plus self-closing and self-latching gate hardware
Pool barrier rules are enforced by your municipality and the code they have adopted, and they cover gap spacing, height and latch position. Tell us it is going around a pool at the estimate and we will quote it to the barrier spec — then confirm the details with your township before we schedule.
What moves the price
- Grade of the system: residential, commercial and industrial lines differ in picket wall thickness and rail size
- Height, and the number of rails in the panel
- Picket profile — spear and arched tops cost more than flat
- Every gate, and the hardware on it; pool-rated hardware is not the cheap hardware
- Tear-out and disposal of the existing fence
- Corners, ends and short runs, which need more posts per foot
Ask what grade of system a quote is built on. It is the number that separates two aluminum quotes more than the footage does, and it is on our estimate.
Aluminum does not rust. It will oxidise on the surface rather than corroding through, which is the practical difference between it and a real iron fence in a climate that salts the roads all winter.
Upkeep is washing it off. There is no painting cycle, no sealing, nothing to re-coat. A powder-coated finish chipped by a mower or a stone can be touched up.
The finish and the hardware are covered by whoever manufactures the system, not by us, so at the estimate we will show you the actual warranty document for what we are quoting rather than tell you a number over the phone.
Fencing a pool, or just the property line?
Aluminum is the usual answer for a pool and a common one for a front boundary. Compare it against the other five, or have us look at the yard.
Get the aluminum number.
Free on-site estimate, usually the same week. If it is going around a pool, say so when you call — it changes the spacing, the gates and the hardware.
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