Saline County Soil Is Why We Set Posts in Concrete

The dirt around Benton is clay-heavy, and clay holds water. Water sitting around the base of a post is exactly what rots a wood fence and heaves it out of plumb over a couple of winters. That is why we dig below the freeze line and set every post in concrete instead of tamped soil, and why we use screws instead of staples on every picket and rail. A stapled fence in a new Benton subdivision looks fine the first summer. By the third year the boards are cupping and the staples are backing out. Ours do not do that, because we build them for the ground and the weather Benton actually has.

There is another reason the post setting matters more here than people expect. Saline County catches real storm wind, and a solid wood fence catches all of it. On the newer builds off Congo Road and the ridges south of I-30, there is not much between an open field and your back line to slow a gust down. A post tamped in dirt leans the first time a spring storm rolls through. A post set below the freeze line in concrete does not. We build the fence to stand up to the wind your specific lot in Benton takes, not the wind an installer assumes it takes.

HOA Rules, Old Fence Teardown, and What Kade Handles

A lot of the newer Benton neighborhoods off Alcoa Road came in with HOA fence standards, and those standards decide a good deal of the fence before a homeowner ever picks wood. Height, setback from the property line, which side the finished face points, sometimes even the stain color, all of it can be spelled out in the covenants. We read those rules before we design your wood fence so the build passes without a letter from the board. When a Benton subdivision requires a specific style, we tell you what will and will not clear and we build to it.

Delta Fence is owner-run, and Kade is on the job. The person who quotes your Benton wood fence is the same person checking that every post is plumb and every board sits true before the crew leaves. If there is an old fence coming down, we pull it and haul it off so you do not touch the teardown. We locate the property line and check the setback so your new fence sits where it belongs. When Benton requires a permit, we tell you up front and walk you through it. By the time we are done, you have a wood fence that looks sharp from the street and is built to stay that way for years.

Serving Benton, AR

Delta Fence LLC serves Benton and the surrounding Saline County communities including Bryant and Alexander. See completed projects in our fence gallery.