Vinyl fences are everywhere and they are trash My full…
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Vinyl fences are everywhere and they are trash
My full time job requires me to do repair work in peoples’ homes and I also DoorDash on the side so I’m in and out of different neighborhoods and developments everyday.
Poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) privacy fences have become almost ubiquitous. You see them even in relatively wealthy neighborhoods because it has become prohibitively expensive to use traditional materials. People replace old fences with them and even newly constructed homes come with them now.
No matter how the vinyl is molded to look like white washed wood, it still looks like shiny plastic. Headlights and streetlights reflect off them at night. They may not rot like wood but they become warped every time there is a heat wave. The gates rarely line up perfectly with the bar and latch, they sag into the ground and you basically have to manhandle them open and closed with them creaking and screeching the whole time. Overall, they are so flimsy that you get the sense that one powerful guy can just tear down whole sections with his hands.
The proliferation of these cheap fences speaks not only of inflation but also the general lowering of material quality and standards of workmanship in homes where now simple wooden fences (and god forbid something like a stone or brick wall) have been replaced by hollow plastic.
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My full time job requires me to do repair work in peoples’ homes and I also DoorDash on the side so I’m in and out of different neighborhoods and developments everyday.
Poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) privacy fences have become almost ubiquitous. You see them even in relatively wealthy neighborhoods because it has become prohibitively expensive to use traditional materials. People replace old fences with them and even newly constructed homes come with them now.
No matter how the vinyl is molded to look like white washed wood, it still looks like shiny plastic. Headlights and streetlights reflect off them at night. They may not rot like wood but they become warped every time there is a heat wave. The gates rarely line up perfectly with the bar and latch, they sag into the ground and you basically have to manhandle them open and closed with them creaking and screeching the whole time. Overall, they are so flimsy that you get the sense that one powerful guy can just tear down whole sections with his hands.
The proliferation of these cheap fences speaks not only of inflation but also the general lowering of material quality and standards of workmanship in homes where now simple wooden fences (and god forbid something like a stone or brick wall) have been replaced by hollow plastic.
#conversation
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