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Residential Wood Fence Selection & Installation For Buffalo, NY & Western New York

City Fence offers a wide range of Wood Fence & Installation Throughout WNY
Cedar Split Rail Wood Fencing, Picket Wood Fences, Heritage Wood Fences, Board-on-Board Wood Fences, Privacy Wood Fences & Spruce Stockade Wood Fencing. Choose City Fence Installation With 5 Year Guarantee & Separate 40 Year Warranty on all Pressure-Treated Fence, or Install Your Own.

Buying A Wood Fence In Western New York

Wood fences are a popular choice in the Buffalo, NY – Western New York (WNY) area. And City Fence is able to offer you a wide range of highly attractive yet cost-effective wood fences, that will fit your needs and budget, and are guaranteed to last for decades in our WNY climate.

City Fence offers a wide range of High Quality Residential Wood Fences that our Fence Installation Team install for you, anywhere in WNY, or you can buy and install yourself.

Our fences (except Stockade) are built on site, not as pre-assembled panels, so they are customized to fit your terrain. They feature 3/4" thick boards and a full 4×4" post (not the usual 3.5×3.5" dimensions).

To choose and install the optimum wood fence for your home you will need to consider several factors:

  1. Choose Your Wood Type – Pressure-Treated Red Pine, Spruce or Cedar
  2. Consider Your Wood Fence Design – For Maximum Privacy or Maximum View
  3. Select Your Wood Fence Shape
  4. Select Your Wood Fence Board Shape
  5. Select Your Wood Fence Post Design
  6. Decide Who Will Be Installing Your Wood Fence – our Professional Fence Installation Team or DIY
  7. Correctly Cure Your Fence Post Concrete Footers

1. Wood Fence Wood Types & Expected Lifetime

To understand how long your fence should be expected to last (with respect to rot and decay) in our Western New York climate, you need to consider the type of wood that the fence is constructed of, and any treatments that have been applied to the wood.

City Fence offers LifeWood Micronized Copper Azole Pressure-Treated Red Pine boards and posts that are SCS Certified as an Environmentally Preferable Product for residential and agricultural wood fencing applications. This material comes with a 40 Year Lifetime Warranty against structural failure from rot & fungal decay – and is currently available from us at a very reasonable price.

Lifewood Micronized Copper Azole Pressure Treated Fence Panels & Posts
LifeWood Pressure-Treated Red Pine is by far the most popular wood type for constructing fence panels that will endure for decades in our demanding WNY climate!

Our Standard Stockade Wood Fence, made from untreated Spruce, is warranted aginst rot & fungal decay for at least 10 years in WNY.

City Fence ‘LifeWood’ Pressure-Treated Red Pine Wood Fence Panel Specifications

  • Fence Board Wood: ‘LifeWood’ Micronized Copper Azole Above-Ground rated Pressure-Treated Red Pine
  • SCS Certified ‘Environmentally Preferable Product’ based on lifecycle
  • Fence Board Surface Finish: Traditional Rough Sawn Lumber
  • Fence Board Surface Treatment: Natural – You may stain and/or coat after about 6 months exposure
  • Fence Board Dimensions (nominal): 1×4" (Picket) or 1×6" (Other Styles)
  • Fence Board Thickness (actual): 0.75"
  • Standard Fence Panel Width: 8′
  • Standard Fence Panel Heights: 4′, 5′, 6′
  • Custom Size Fencing: Available
  • Matching Fence Gates: Available
  • Fence Panel Warranty: 40 Years against structural failure due to rot & fungal decay

2. Wood Fence Panel Design For Privacy or View

When choosing the optimum type of wood fence for your home you first need to decide how much Privacy (obstruction of view onto and off your property) or View you wish your fence to provide. The degree of privacy offered by your fence will obviously be affected by the height of the fence. However, the specific design of the fence panels is also a very important factor, since panels may be constructed so that the individual wooden fence boards have gaps between them, to increase visibility, or no gaps* between them to increase privacy.

City Fence offers you a range of different wood fence designs, presented here in order of increasing privacy:

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* may incur minor gaps, due to natural shrinkage of the individual boards.

City Fence Split Rail Wood Fencing
Split Rail

City Fence Picket Wood Fencing Panels
Picket

City Fence Heritage Wood Fencing Panels
Semi-Private

City Fence Board-on-Board Wood Fencing Panels
Board-on-Board

City Fence Split Privacy Fencing Panels
Privacy

City Fence Stockade Wood Fencing
Stockade


3. Wood Fence Panel Shape Options

Except for Stockade fences, all of our wooden fences are built onsite, not in pre-assembled panels, so they may be customized to fit your terrain much better. When viewed from a distance, the Top Edge of your Wood Fence Panels can have a considerable impact on how the fence looks. City Fence offers you a range of 4 Wood Fence Panel Shape options:

City Fence Flat Top Wood Fencing
Flat Top Wood Fence

City Fence Flat Top Design
Flat Top Design Fence Panels have a flat top edge providing maximum privacy along the entire fence length.

Flat Top Fence Panels are available on all City Fence Premium Residential Fence Panel Styles – Picket, Semi-Private, Board-on-Board, and Privacy.

A standard Flat Top Panel Width is 8ft with a range of standard panel heights. Custom sizes are also available, and your fence is custom fabricated at your home to compliment your particular terrain configurations.
Matching Gates are available.

City Fence Convex Top Wood Fencing
Convex Top Wood Fence

City Fence Convex Top Design
Convex Top Design is presents a graceful arch along its top edge that rises to a high point in the center of the panel.

Convex Top Fence Panels are available on all City Fence Premium Residential Fence Panel Styles – Picket, Semi-Private, Board-on-Board, and Privacy.

Convex Top Panel Width is 8ft with a range of standard panel heights. Custom sizes are also available, and your fence is custom fabricated at your home to compliment your particular terrain configurations.
Matching Gates are available.

City Fence Concave Top Wood Fencing
Concave Top Wood Fence

City Fence Concave Top Design
Concave Top Design presents a graceful arch along its top edge that falls to a low point in the center of the panel.

Concave Top Fence Panels are available on all City Fence Premium Residential Fence Panel Styles – Picket, Semi-Private, Board-on-Board, and Privacy.

Concave Top Panel Width is 8ft with a range of standard panel heights. Custom sizes are also available, and your fence is custom fabricated at your home to compliment your particular terrain configurations.
Matching Gates are available.

City Fence Lintel Top Arcadia Wood Fencing
Lintel Top Arcadia Wood Fence

City Fence Lintel Top Arcadia Design
Lintel Top Arcadia Design Panels have a flat top, with a Lintel to cap off the fence, giving maximum privacy along the entire fence length.

Lintel Top Arcadia Panels are available with 2 construction options: 2444 Post Construction or Face Nail.

A standard Arcadia Panel Width is 8ft with a standard Panel Height of 6ft, (4, 5, 7 or 8ft heights available). Your fence is custom fabricated at your home, so smaller panel widths can be used to compliment your particular terrain configurations.
Matching Gates are available.


4. Wood Fence Board Shape Options

When viewed from a close up the shape of the Top Edges of the individual Boards within your fence panels can bring an extra esthetic component to your yard. City Fence offers you a range of 4 Wood Fence Board Shape options:

For illustrative purposes, these different board shape options are presented below on a Picket Fence, and they are available on the other fence styles:

City Fence Picket Wood Fencing Panels With Flat Design Boards
Flat

City Fence Picket Wood Fencing Panels With Dog Ear Boards
Dog Ear

City Fence Picket Wood Fencing Panels With Gothic Boards
Gothic

City Fence Picket Wood Fencing Panels With French Gothic Boards
French Gothic

Depending on the particular Fence Panel Style (Picket, Semi-Private, Board-on Board, or Privacy) that you choose, your fence panels will be constructed with either 1×4" or 1×6" LifeWood Pressure-Treated Red Pine Boards.


5. Wood Fence Post Design Options

City Fence Premium Wooden Fence Posts are made from LifeWood Ground-Contact rated Pressure-Treated Pine and have actual dimensions of 4×4" (unlike ‘nominal’ 4×4"n posts which are actually only 3.5×3.5" in size). Our fence posts are available in a range of 6 Styles:

City Fence Wood Fencing Post Styles
City Fence Wood Fence Post Styles

  1. Straight Top Wood Fence Posts
  2. Chamfered Top Wood Fence Posts
  3. Gothic Top Wood Fence Posts
  4. French Gothic Top Wood Fence Posts
  5. Royal Gothic Top Wood Fence Posts
  6. Crown Gothic Top Wood Fence Posts

6. Proper Wood Fence Installation

Installing your own wood fence is a task that some homeowners are willing to take. However, if you want to make sure that your fence doesn’t end up crooked, or blow over in the first wind storm, there is more to erecting a fence than you might realize.

For those people who want their fence erected quickly and properly, with minimum hassle, call in the City Fence Professional Fence Installation Team. We work throughout the Western New York area, it costs less than you might think, and our work comes with a 5 year installation guarantee.

Curing Fence Post Footers

The Fence Post Footer is a critical component of the fence system that must be correctly designed and installed in order to securely anchor your fence posts and panels to the ground. Since Wooden Fences in Western New York will be subjected to freeze-thaw cycles during the winter and high wind loads throughout the year, City Fence has designed a proprietary High Strength Concrete Footer Mix that has proven to be durable over decades in local fence installations.

When installing your Wood Fence, we will first excavate holes that extend 36 inches deep down into the ground, below the winter frost line. We will then mix and pour wet concrete footers into the holes, installing each fence post within a footer. Industry best practice requires that we then allow the concrete footers to cure for approximately 7 days before subjecting them to any significant loads.

Therefore, We Will Wait For Approximately 1 Week Before Returning To Build & Install Your Wooden Fence Panels!

During this concrete curing period, it is very important that you take steps to protect your exposed fence posts, for example; by making sure that children or pets do not place stress on them during the first week. By taking the extra effort and time to design and install your fence post footers and cure them correctly we are able to guarantee your fence installation for 5 years, and we expect your footers to last for decades.


City Fence Stocks A Huge Range Of High Quality Residential Wood Fence Materials
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