Parade of Homes | Spring 2025

FENCING TRENDS

“Your standard wood fence is your most popular.” – TIM FRIESEN, MANAGER, MCMUNN AND YATES, UNICITY

POPULAR STYLES FOR PRIVACY FENCES BY JIM BENDER Y ou have moved into your you like your privacy, you can go eight feet.” immense amount” of requests for brown treated fences every spring and summer, he adds. “Wood fences are the most

new abode and decided to build a fence to protect your kids or keep your pets safely in the yard. What are your options? Well, there are plenty of them, from wood to vinyl to chain link. “Your standard wood fence is your most popular,” says Tim Friesen, manager of McMunn and Yates, Unicity. “The wood fence seems to be the most common — your 4x4 or 6x6 fence posts and your 1x6 boards tied to it. Five-foot, six-foot — those are your standard heights. If

Chain link fences were once popular because they lasted so much longer than wood or other fences. “Back in those days, you could get those privacy slats put in between there,” Friesen says. “But, over time, it started to look not so nice. They can start to rust a little bit, so they’re not very common now. I would say that 10 years ago, we were still quoting them and selling them. But now, I might quote a couple a year to retail customers.” McMunn and Yates gets “an

common, and if you want to get fancy, you can put lattice or some kind of decoration on the top,” Friesen says. “There’s a lot of different kinds of post caps you can use now that are decorative. Some are lighted, or you can use solar lights. You can also get metal or iron grills that you can insert into fence gates to kind of spice it up a little bit.” Other types of fences include vinyl, ornamental, pool and welded wire.

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122 PARADE of HOMES SPRING 2025

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