Maryville Charleston Picket Fence
Maryville Charleston Picket Fence
Termite Infested Cedar Post…how close to your home?
Do you have a cedar picket fence that looks like this cedar post on the right side of the page? The fence is rotting out and falling over? Posts are riddled with termites?
Change out that 6-year-old cedar fence with a Maryville Charleston Picket Fence, CHARLESTON a natural wood picket fence. The Charleston 5′ high picket fence will contain most pets, large and small. Picket spacing can be set for your specific requirements. Gates sizes are optional with standard Point of Entry Gates at 4′ wide and landscape gates about 5′ wide.
Maryville Charleston Picket Fence – TERMITE BELT
Maryville, Tn is in the TERMITE BELT, an area covering Tennessee, western NC, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Climate conditions are near perfect for subterranean termite growth, with colonies reaching 1 million to 2 million termites. As natures perfect wood cleanup crew, they will eat any wood source they find, and they will find it!
Maryville Charleston Picket Fence
The below photo is a custom stick-built on-site natural wood fence treated for termites. Notice that the fence is built with pickets to the ground, eliminating gapping under the fence. The final step in construction is to trim out the arc on top. Great looking natural wood picket fence that is treated and warranted for termites, (10-year structural damage warranty).
Charleston 5′ high Natural Wood Picket Fence
Maryville Charleston Picket Fence
Charleston gothic natural wood picket fence
There are lots of options for the Charleston wood fence, ranging from fence height, picket spacing, picket toppings, and post topping. The Maryville Charleston picket fence on the right is prebuilt in our factory wood shop and then brought to the job site for installation.
Notice that the picket tops all have a gothic topping and that they are built with an arch between the posts. The posts also have a French gothic topping carved right out of the post.
We built this fence in our factory wood shop on table jigs for a consistently beautiful look. TERMITES? Not to worry, all of these fences are not just resistant to termites, they come with a 10-year termites warranty!
Charleston Gothic Wood Picket Fence
This Charleston natural wood picket fence on the left features gothic pickets set tightly together for a privacy effect. The Charleston natural wood privacy picket fence 5′ high photo on the left replaced a similar termite-infested CEDAR FENCE less than 6 years old!
Why are the cedar styles of fencing so susceptible to subterranean termites? The softwood cedar fencing used in the East Tennessee area is a low grade with low, if any, levels of tannin (the naturally occurring chemical that resists termites). Also, when using small trees, you have a lot of lumber containing both the sapwood and heartwood. The softer sapwood rots and decays rapidly in the ground, and insects love this lumber.
So the question remains: If you have a choice in a Cedar Fence that will rot or be eaten up by termites in 6 – 8 years vs. a Natural Pine Wood Fence chemically treated and WARRANTED AGAINST TERMITES, what will you choose?
Both fences will require staining in less than a year or they will turn a barn wood gray coloring. They will look about the same until the termites and rot take out the Cedar Fence. The choice is easy! Natural Pine chemically treated for termites will outlast your Cedar Fence 2 to 1, even 3 to one!
