Is there a white vinyl picket fencing option with a wood texture?
June 18, 2018 5:27 PM   Subscribe

We desperately need to replace our picket fence, but I don't like the flat shiny vinyl fences in my neighborhood. Does white vinyl picket fencing come with a wood texture? I haven't been able to find it searching online--it seems to be a thing, since I see some vinyl privacy fences with it, but I don't see any textured vinyl picket fences.

Suggestions for other options welcome, I thought of composite but it doesn't seem to come in white at all. If the vinyl really doesn't exist I would probably stick with wood since I dislike the flat vinyl so very much.
posted by lemonade to Home & Garden (3 answers total)
 
This won't be very helpful but I was researching the very same thing last month and found nothing. I'm in the middle of scraping the peeling paint off of mine and am just going to paint it again. Hopefully someone else will chime in and spare me from that fate.
posted by johannsebastianbachpuppet at 5:53 PM on June 18, 2018


The production of vinyl is genuinely toxic. And it generally can't be recycled, so it's toxic again when it breaks and needs to be disposed of, so if environmental issues are a concern, wood or wire are far better choices.
posted by theora55 at 9:24 PM on June 18, 2018


If you get a wooden fence, paint it with a couple of coats of opaque white stain instead of regular paint. We have just regular treated wood picket fence panels from Home Depot or Lowe’s and the stain lasts forever. My husband replaced the fence a year ago and it’s still all nice and white. The fence before that lasted maybe 17 or 18 years and I don’t think we ever restained it. We had to replace the gate a couple of times because the posts holding the gate weren’t treated and they’d fall apart. The stain eventually looks dingy but it never gets flaky.
posted by artychoke at 10:41 PM on June 18, 2018 [2 favorites]


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