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Chain Link Fences in Sherwood

Sherwood Chain Link

Chain Link Fence Installation for Sherwood Yards and Lots

Chain link is the practical answer when the job is holding a dog, marking the line, and keeping the sightlines open across a wide flat back yard. Delta Fence installs galvanized and black vinyl-coated chain link in Sherwood, stretched tight, with every post set in concrete. Licensed, insured, bonded.

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The Fence That Fits a Wide Flat Back Yard

A lot of Sherwood sits on the kind of lot chain link was made for. The ranch and split-level neighborhoods that went up between the 1970s and the 1990s came with deep, level back yards and trees that have since grown tall enough to shade the whole thing. When a homeowner in one of those neighborhoods calls us, the job is usually the same: keep the dog in the yard, put a clear edge on the property, and do it without walling off a yard people actually like looking at. Solid wood would take the light and the breeze out of it. Chain link holds the dog and leaves the yard the way it was.

That is also where the bad reputation comes from. A fence that was never stretched right goes wavy along the bottom, and posts tamped into dirt lean by the first wet spring. None of that is the fabric’s fault. It is tension, it is the frame, and it is what happens below ground. If what you want is a screen instead of a boundary, we will say so and point you toward privacy fencing or vinyl.

Materials

Galvanized Reads as a Fence. Black Coating Disappears.

Galvanized is the classic: bare zinc-coated steel that shrugs off central Arkansas humidity and costs the least of anything we install. It is the right call along a side yard or around a work area, anywhere the fence is doing a job and nobody is looking at it. The catch is that silver metal draws the eye. Run it across the back of a shaded yard and it reads as a fence, all season long.

Black vinyl-coated fabric behaves the opposite way. The color layer goes over the galvanizing, so you gain a second skin against rust and the fence drops back into whatever is behind it. Against the mature tree lines in the older Sherwood neighborhoods, and the wooded edges out toward Gravel Ridge, black chain link nearly vanishes from twenty feet away. Green does the same against a hedge. It costs a little more, and most people who see the two decide the back yard run is worth coating and the side yard is not.

Chain link fence run along a shaded back yard property line at a Sherwood, AR home

Two Fences Can Look Identical From the Street

Here is what separates a chain link fence that holds for decades from one that is tired in five years, and none of it shows in a photo. The first number is the gauge of the fabric, meaning how thick the wire is. Lighter wire dents easier and gives up its shape where a big dog leans every day. The second is the diameter and wall thickness of the pipe. A thin-wall terminal post is the part that bends first, because it carries the pull of the whole stretched run.

The third is spacing. Line posts set further apart mean fewer holes and a faster day for the crew, and more unsupported fabric between each one. When somebody brings us a competing quote, those three numbers are usually the whole difference. We tell you the gauge, the pipe, and the spacing before the job starts, so you know what you are buying. Heavier specs across the board are what we run on the commercial side, and that work is on our Sherwood commercial fencing page.

Taking Out a Fence That Went Up Thirty Years Ago

Plenty of the chain link in Sherwood is original to the house. By now the fabric has stretched past where a come-along can pull it back, the bottom wanders, and at least one gate has quit closing. The old line posts are usually set in concrete, which is why they are still standing, and pulling them means pulling a footing out with them.

Some of it is worth keeping. If the terminal posts are heavy pipe, still plumb, and the concrete under them is sound, they can carry a new run, and that saves the roughest part of the day. Line posts we judge one at a time. Old fabric almost never comes back, and neither does old hardware, because the tension bands and bolts give up first. We will not hang new fabric on a frame that is already going, because it leans again within a season or two. We walk the line with you, tell you what stays, and haul off the rest.

How We Build It

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Concrete Under Every Post

Central Arkansas clay swells wet and shrinks dry, and a post tamped into it works loose. Ours go in a proper hole with concrete, terminals deeper than lines.

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Fabric Pulled Tight

Fabric gets stretched, then tied off, so the bottom runs straight with no gap for a dog to nose under.

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Gates Hung to Stay Square

Oversized gate posts, real hinges, a latch that lines up. Walk gate for the mower, drive gate sized to what you pull through it.

Top Rail, Tension Wire, Gates, and Clay

A top rail is a length of pipe running through the tops of the line posts, and it keeps the fence from waving when something pushes on it. On a residential yard that matters, because that is the run kids climb and a dog throws a shoulder into. Tension wire, a single heavy wire pulled along the bottom instead, belongs on longer runs out on acreage. For a Sherwood back yard we want a rail across the top and a tension wire down low.

Gates take more abuse than the rest of the fence combined. Every open and close hangs the whole weight of the leaf on two hinges and one post, and if that post is the same pipe as a line post it will pull toward the opening. We set gate posts oversized and deeper, and with a big dog we spec heavier hinges and a latch that works from both sides. Clay is why depth matters: a terminal post that shifts takes the tension of the entire run with it, so the leaning fence on a neighbor’s line usually started with one shallow hole at a corner.

Working Across Sherwood and North Pulaski County

We cover Sherwood and the rest of north Pulaski County, including North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Gravel Ridge, and the commercial properties along Highway 107 and Kiehl Avenue. Finished work is in our fence gallery.

Sherwood Chain Link Questions

Will chain link hold a big dog?

Yes, when it is built for one. The parts that fail with a large dog are the bottom of the fabric and the gate. We run a tension wire along the bottom so there is nothing to nose under, and we spec heavier hinges and an oversized gate post. Tell us the breed and we will build to it.

Should I go galvanized or black vinyl-coated?

Galvanized costs less and holds up fine here. Black coating adds a layer over the zinc and makes the fence read as almost nothing against a tree line, which is why most of the coated runs we put up in Sherwood are back yards. If the fence faces where you sit, coat it. Behind the garage, galvanized is money well saved.

How deep do the posts go in Sherwood clay?

Deeper than the soil moves, and terminal posts deeper than line posts, in a hole with concrete around them. Central Arkansas clay swells and shrinks through the year, and that movement walks a shallow post out of plumb. A corner post carries the tension of the whole run, so one shallow hole eventually pulls the line over.

Can any of my old chain link fence be reused?

Sometimes the terminal posts, if they are heavy pipe, still plumb, and sitting on sound concrete. Line posts get judged individually. Old fabric and old tension bands almost never come back. We walk the line with you and tell you what stays before we quote the work.

Do I need a top rail or is tension wire enough?

For a residential yard, put the rail on. It stiffens the top where people and dogs push, and it is why a fence still looks straight after ten years. Tension wire on its own suits long runs on acreage. Our usual build in a Sherwood back yard is a top rail plus a bottom tension wire.

Do I need a permit, and how do I know where my line is?

The City of Sherwood and Pulaski County set the rules on permits and placement, and a subdivision association may have its own. We tell you what applies before we dig and we pull what needs pulling. For the boundary itself, a current survey is the only real answer. Without one, we work from what is on the ground and keep the fence inside it. Send us your address and we will start there.

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Other Fencing We Build in Sherwood

Wood

Cedar, pine, and cypress fencing for Sherwood homes that want a screen instead of an open line.

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Privacy

Full-height solid fencing where the point is blocking sightlines, not keeping them.

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Commercial

Heavier gauge, taller runs, and gated access for Sherwood businesses and storage lots.

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Tell Us What the Fence Has to Do

The dog, the yard, the gate you need to get a mower or a trailer through. Give us that and we will give you a real number on a chain link fence built to hold. Licensed, insured, bonded.

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