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High Quality Materials, including a Limited LIfetime Warranty
Limited Lifetime (20 year) manufacturers warranty on Fence Goals vinyl, steel and most aluminum. Each project is covered by Fence Goals 2 year installation, workmanship free of defect warranty. All gate systems workmanship are 1 year after completion. We install our Fence Goals completion tags on each project representing the warranty. Removal of the tag by a non Fence Goals professional voids all contracted guarantees. We do not warranty any out sourced material contracted for install only, such as box store products like Lowes or Home Depot. The following limited lifetime warranty are for the materials only. We are covered LETS GROW!!
Our materials are built for New England
Our manufacturers are guaranteeing us 20 years of defect free vinyl, steel, and most aluminum free of manufacturing defects including peeling, flaking, blistering and corroding when subject to normal and proper use. The warranty has to be claimed by the original homeowner at the time of completion still owning the property if any of these defects were to occur. We will send someone out that following weekend and start the process! We only Install material manufactured here in the USA. After a Fence is selected we will pull up the manufacturers warranty and will be attached to the contract.
All Cedar projects will be covered by our workmanship warranty. Added protection can be purchased. Or free if you choose to stain and seal with Wood Defender.
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"CHECKING" OF WOOD
“My fence posts are all cracking!”
“This fence is no good – it’s all splitting!”
This is not an uncommon “complaint” by the owner of a new wood fence.
It can be a troublesome one – but not if you know the answer and reasons.
Actually the fence post neither “cracked” nor “split”, but rather underwent a process known as “checking”, which results from the natural seasoning (drying out) of any piece of lumber. This is particularly noticeable in any full round piece of timber.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, has done considerable research on this subject. The following is quoted from the U.S.D.A. Bulletin No. 1187:
“Round items are considerably more difficult to season than sawn items. The difficulty arises because the round item contains the heartwood or center of the tree, frequently of larger proportions to the whole, and the outer sapwood layer. The enclosure of the heartwood within the piece prevents the satisfaction of inherent differences between tangential and radial shrinkage by distortion across section. As a consequence, stresses set up in different directions during drying, thus the full round item has a natural tendency to develop a V-shaped check towards the center.”
In plain language – when a full round timber dries, the exterior surface (sapwood) shrinks faster than the inner (heartwood) heart of the piece, and something has to give. The result is the familiar “check.”
Checking is much less visually evident, but still a possibility, in boards and planks (the form in which we see common lumber) because these timbers are normally cut from larger trees. Having been sawn on four sides, exposure to the air and natural drying is more even and uniform.
Both laboratory and field tests tend to prove that the natural checking of materials does not materially affect the strength of the timber.
Users of full round timbers (posts, rails, etc.) or dimensional members (posts, boards, slats, etc.) can be assured that the natural checking, which is certain to occur, will have no appreciable effect on the strength of that member.