Hurricane season tends to roar in toward the end of the summer, bringing along with it torrential rains, gusty winds, and even damage to your home and property. There are numerous articles of how to prepare your home for a hurricane and how to keep your home and family safe. But what about your residential fence? After all, your fence is part of your home and property, and there are ways to ensure your fence gets through hurricane season safely! (more…)
Residential Fencing Tips
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Hurricane Season: Prepare your Fence
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Chain Link Fence: Your Residential Fence
Whether you are looking for a new home or looking to update your current home, a fence is an important component of a residence. A fence can help protect your home and children and add a level of privacy that your family may desire. While there are many residential fence options for homeowners to choose from, a chain link fence has become a popular option for many homes.
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Spring Updates for Your Yard
Spring has sprung, and you may have realized that you’re a little behind on spring updates for your yard. If you’re still looking into options, we have some great projects for you to undertake this season. Check out some of the most popular updates to transform your yard this spring: -
Fence Designs for your Home
With a variety of styles and designs, it should come as no surprise that homeowners love the flexibility and aesthetics of a wooden fence.
From increasing privacy to creating a visually stunning backyard, a wooden fence design for your home provides a multitude of benefits. When deciding on a fence design for your home, what are some of the most common styles and designs to consider?
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Spring Cleaning your Maryland Yard
Spring is finally here and the weather is beginning to break. As the sun begins to shine through the clouds of April showers and the temperatures begin to rise, many Maryland residents will take advantage of the nice weather to enjoy their yards. However, before you can enjoy your yard, it’s important to also prepare you yard for the spring and summer seasons. While spring cleaning tends to occur within your home, it’s also important to take part in spring cleaning your Maryland yard. -
Residential Fence Mistakes
With spring finally here, many Maryland homeowners are taking the time to spruce up their outdoor living areas. While some may choose to create a new garden, others are considering installing a new fence. While a residential fence is the perfect way to take your outdoor living space to the next level, it should really be installed by a professional. If Maryland homeowners make the attempt to install the residential fence themselves, they might run into the following problems and make some common mistakes.
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Painting your Chain Link Fence
Even though a chain link fence is very durable, it still can face aesthetic wear and tear due to the elements.
Just like any project, fence maintenance requires preparation, and you can’t just expect to spray paint your chain link fence and restore it to its former beauty. You need to have the proper tools on hand in order to properly maintain your chain link fence.
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Do I Need a New Fence?
That fence has been there for years. You or the previous owner grew up with that border protecting their yard. Children and pets played behind it. Cookouts and porch-light parties were kept private. That fence even prevented that mystery animal from digging in. But fence maintenance is difficult, especially when the materials are starting to degrade and the poles in the ground are loose in their holes. It’s time for a new fence installation.
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A Residential Fence: What to Consider
Even though the weather may be cold, it is never too early to consider home improvement projects that come with the warmer months. One of the home improvement projects on the top of everyone’s list is a new residential fence for their home. Beginning your planning for your new residential fence now will allow you to consider several things before any major decisions are made.
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Choosing a Powder Coated Finish
When Hercules Fence customers are considering a new residential fence for their home, two of their options include an iron fence and an aluminum fence. With these two types of fences, there are two different types of finishes that can be used to complete the fence. These two finishes are a baked enamel finish or a powder coated finish. At Hercules Fence, we choose the powder coating finish option when treating our aluminum and iron fences.
