Conway Wood Fence Installation
A wood fence built right outlasts the cheap ones by a decade. Delta Fence sets every post in concrete and fastens every board with screws, so your Conway fence holds its line through Arkansas summers and winter ground swell. Licensed, insured, bonded.
Wood That Suits Conway Yards and Conway Weather
Conway runs from the older streets near downtown out to newer builds in the Oak Hills and Winrock areas, and the right wood depends on what you are fencing and how long you want it to last. Cedar resists rot and bugs without much help, which is why we recommend it for most privacy and picket runs. Pressure-treated pine costs less up front and holds up fine when it is sealed on schedule. Cypress is the premium pick for homeowners who want that rich grain and do not mind paying for it. We walk your property, look at your sun and drainage, and tell you straight which one fits your budget and your yard.
Faulkner County soil is clay-heavy, and clay holds water. Water around a post is what rots fences and heaves them crooked. That is why we dig below the freeze line and set posts in concrete instead of tamped dirt, and why we use screws instead of staples on every picket and rail. A stapled fence near the UCA campus looks fine the first year. By year three the boards are cupping and pulling loose. Ours do not, because we build them to take the weather Conway actually gets.
There is a right way to set a post in clay, and it is more than just dropping it in a hole full of wet concrete. We flare the bottom of the hole wider than the top so the footing sits like an anchor the ground cannot push straight up, and we slope the top of the concrete so water sheds away from the post instead of pooling against the wood. On the lower spots around Conway where drainage is poor and rain sits after a storm, we will drop a few inches of gravel under the post before the pour so water has somewhere to go instead of wicking up the grain. Those steps cost a little more time per hole, and they are the whole reason our fences stand straight while the tamped-dirt jobs down the street start leaning.
