Month: July, 2011
White Vinyl Picket
- July 28, 2011
- posted in: Vinyl Picket Fence
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This is a 4′ high Polyvinyl Sterling Picket Fence provided by Digger Specialties. With all of Digger Specialties Polyvinyl Fencing products you get a few things that you won’t find anywhere else. First, we have a hidden picket attachment. This allows the fence sections to rack to the grade and more closely resemble wood fencing, having the pickets on the outside of the rails. Plus, the clean looking finish of the fasteners hiding between the picket and the rail. Another great feature of Digger’s products is the ability to order the sections by the foot. This keeps all of the section sizes close enough to one another in length that visually your eye cannot pick up any differences, without having to handle (cut) and waste the materials. Sort of an underrated benefit of Digger Specialties is the product packaging and delivery. These fences come to Farm N Garden fully crated and shipped on a company truck. It may not sound like a feature but when everyone involved in handling these products cares, it will make a noticeable difference in the final project.
The finer points on this project are the gates and the post caps. These gates have an attractive arch top to them, including the double gates continuous convex construction. The post caps here are different on the end, gate and corner posts where we used the Trim Cap design. All of the line posts received the Flat Cap. What few will notice is the posts that have the Trim Caps are set up higher than the posts that have the Flat Caps. A touch I added to keep the Flat Caps flush with the pickets and making the Trim Caps stick up and stand out. I really like the minor touches that set this picket fence apart and what’s better is the customer’s comment card says “simply awesome”.
Commercial Railing with Hand Railing
- July 24, 2011
- posted in: Porch / Stair Railing
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This is a 42″ Westbury C-10 Tuscany Aluminum Railing with Continuous Aluminum Hand Railing and Power Posts, supplied by Digger Specialties. The client here is a local general contractor that we have done a lot of work for over the years. This particular installation is at a fire station next door to the township hall. The location here is notable because all of the applicable codes were sure to be enforced to the fullest extent. We had to submit test results on the posts and sections for strength. Also, the hand railing had to be installed to tight tolerances concerning the height and the distances that the 180 degree elbows extend past the first and last stair. It’s easy to see why the popularity of Westbury Railing continues to grow, offering many styles to accommodate the look for any scenario and strength to satisfy the most stringent codes.
