While aluminum fences can last several generations, we’ve come a long way in the past decade. See what’s available today and find a gorgeous style to nicely compliment your yard!
When is the last time you shopped for an aluminum fence? The styles and features available today are far better than old metal fences that we’ve seen in the past. Your property can actually look ten times better with a new aluminum fence! You just need to choose the right style, decorative accents, and functional features to compliment your property. Here’s what you need to know:
Because of the wide selection of choices in aluminum fencing, it’s easy to find something that will blend in with the existing beauty and style of your home or business. If you feel your home or business’ exterior is looking drab or lacks character, an aluminum fence can enhance the look of the overall property. Aluminum fences pair especially well with contemporary homes. For buildings with stone, brick, or stucco siding, aluminum fencing gives a touch of added class. To give a more stately look, add a fence post cap in an ornamental design or picket-style. With all that’s available in aluminum fencing, it’s no surprise that it’s getting mentions in design blogs and is on high demand.
Ornamental designs are timeless and well sought after for residential properties. Achieving a Victorian era wrought iron fence appearance is easy and cheaper to do with aluminum ornament embellishments. This feature is very limited in wood fencing and is very expensive in steel and iron fencing. Being that aluminum is lightweight and can be easily welded when heated, you won’t have to wait so long or pay as much for ornament customizations. ActiveYards offers a few ornament options like the Diamond from the Harbor Series. One way to achieve an ornamental appearance is to add an ornamental gate or fence post caps. For especially unique post caps, look for the Royal Finial, Triad Finial, Estate Scroll, and Butterfly Scroll. Because aluminum doesn’t rust, your ornamental designs will never look unattractive or uncared for in your yard.
Do you want a decorative fence or are you looking for more privacy? Are you concerned about keeping people out of your yard, or keeping kids and pets safely inside of your property line? Identify what your priorities are and we’ll help you to choose the perfect aluminum fence for you!
Aluminum fences are best if you’re looking to maximize visibility. Because aluminum fences have spatial posts and rails, there is no obstruction of view from either side of the fence. You can easily see out and others can easily see your property. Let your hard work on roofing, siding, landscaping, or gardening shine. While shopping for an aluminum fence, keep in mind that the color and look of your fence should compliment your yard and home, especially since they are all in clear view.
Aluminum fences have the ability to adjust to any and all slopes on your property. They have such precision in installation because they are “rackable.” Aluminum fences come in rackable sections up to 25 inches over 6 inches with no special rails. Aluminum bars can be placed at any level to give the best precision for your security and safety. This ability to be rackable means they can be constructed closely to or even on the ground making sure pets and little ones can’t get through any gaps. With aluminum, you can successfully fence every part of your property from the awkward corner angle to the bumps and curves in your property.
Aluminum fencing allows for a range of design and customization. Here’s why you can have it all when it comes the look of your aluminum fence.
Choosing a fence style is basically the same as selecting the facade of your home. It's what people will see at first glance. Therefore, the style of your fence should go along with the style of your siding. Aluminum fences come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, designs, and colors, so there shouldn’t be a problem finding an aluminum fence that compliments your home or business. Because aluminum is a lightweight metal that can be used over and over again, it is very easy to make customizations. Customizations can include a choice of color, a fence post cap design, a mix of posts, or a variety of racking techniques. The styles are endless and more and more designs regularly become available. You can choose to have lots of embellishments or keep your aluminum fence simple. More traditional looking fence styles are offered in aluminum fencing, too, like the Travertine from the Harbor Series. Flat, smooth, curved, or spikey top, the choice is yours.
Again, aluminum fencing is no longer limited to that ‘90s silver chain link fence image that you may have in your mind. Thanks to anodizing, a manufacturing process that bonds charged particles to more efficiently paint metal, aluminum fences are available in all kinds of colors. Once they have the anodized primer, the aluminum goes through electrostatic painting. This powder coating process involves dipping electrically conductive parts into a tank of paint that is then electrostatically charged fusing the particles to the metal. This process can also be done by an electrostatic spray painting process, which is more commonly used on fences that have already been installed. ActiveYards’ generally only carries aluminum fences in black or white. However, it’s common to find green, blue, gold, bronze, and sandstone anodized aluminum fences. You can choose the color that best suits your style and property.
Because of their look, strength, and customization, aluminum fences are a perfect option for almost anywhere. Most commonly you might have first seen aluminum fences as the go-to material for pool enclosures and gates. That being said, they appeal to many residential properties like personal homes (front and back yards), estates, apartment and condominium buildings, housing authorities, and animal/ pet and child enclosures. Aluminum fences also work great at commercial and public properties like office complexes, parking lots, cemeteries, parks and playgrounds, gardens, farms and ranches, security perimeters, and industrial properties. Convenient to install, aluminum fencing works well on all surfaces, flat or sloped, so no need to worry about gaps or awkward transitions.
Do you live in the greater Cincinnati OH area? Stop by the Eads Fence showroom to see many styles of aluminum fences for your home or business property. Our attentive staff will give you the information you need and help you to install an attractive, functional aluminum fence around your home or place of business.
</a> Puerto Rico bond prices have been in a free fall amidrenewed fears about the island's chronic deficits, free spendingand high unemployment. The S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico Indexis down 19 percent in 2013. The index is badly underperformingthe S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, which is downonly 3.6 percent this year.
</a> The new mom and her momager have been in discussions for Kim to make that first public appearance on her motherâs talk show, âKris,â which could be a ratings bonanza for Kris and keep the questions controlled for Kim.
</a> Vietnam recorded 4.9 and 5 percent economic growth, respectively, in the first two quarters of 2013, lackluster for a developing Asian market, putting it on track for its slowest annual expansion in 14 years.
</a> When you have a current law that hospitals and emergency rooms cannot refuse to provide service based on one’s inability to pay, why would any person take on a $200-$400 month burden for something they receive for free?
</a> And, sure, there's plenty of truth in that insight. The economy is a complex beast with countless individuals competing fiercely for scarce resources doing what they think will better their economic standing.
</a> "The Obama Administration's recent decision to delay Obamacare's employer mandate and eligibility verification for the individual exchanges is further proof the law is a failure that will inevitably hurt businesses, American families, and the economy," wrote Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who is spearheading the funding cut. "I call on all Americans who oppose the unfair implementation of the president's health care law to join us in the effort to fund the government, but not Obamcare. If the president can't follow his law, then the American people shouldn't fund it."
</a> The two teens, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were from China's eastern Zhejiang province and were among 29 middle-school students and five teachers heading for a three-week church summer camp in Los Angeles. Both were declared dead at the accident scene. The body of the one who may have been struck by the emergency vehicle was found about 30 feet from the aircraft.
</a> The county's plan filed on June 30 still must be confirmedby a federal judge but contains agreements with the biggest WallStreet creditors, such as JPMorgan Chase, that includelosses of as much as 70 cents on the dollar.
</a> Bigcommerce helps small businesses set up websites quickly to sell their products, letting them compete more easily with industry leaders such as Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest Internet retailer, and eBay Inc.
</a> "I was very impressed," Vigneault said of Moore's play Monday night in New Jersey. "That was one of the first things (we talked about), when (general manager) Glen (Sather) came (in after the game). "For a guy who's been off for a full year to come in and to play the way he did, to talk to the players the way he did on the bench, his experience. I was impressed. A full year off for him, to come back like that â I give him full marks for getting himself ready to play."
</a> The royalties result initially overshadowed a strongperformance in licensing. Processor licensing revenues came inat $106.2 million, up 52 percent on a year earlier and easilybeating management's guidance of about $80 million.
</a> "Xavier was really able to grow because of his experience at the school. It was a very positive experience. Because of the Bard school, he was able to attend one of the top tier schools in the country."
</a> "There's no way that Nauru can absorb a large number of people in a resettlement program, and tellingly the prime minister didn't say exactly how many he expected to be resettled on Nauru, and neither did the president of Nauru because, frankly, it's absurd," Milne said.
</a> However, the dollar fell against sterling as marketparticipants brought forward expectations of a Bank of Englandinterest rate hike on improving UK data and a surprise divisionamong policymakers over the bank's rates guidance.
</a> BHP - which told shareholders it expects global commoditydemand to grow by up to 75 percent over the next 15 years - saidit would build rather than take another tilt at potash producerslike giant Potash Corp - a company BHP unsuccessfullybid for in 2010, and a move the miner says it will not repeat.
</a> Verizon has declined to comment in detail on any plans forCanada, but sources familiar with the matter have said the U.S.company has offered to buy Wind Mobile for $600 million to $800million, and is in talks to acquire Mobilicity.
</a> A simple, color-coded system for labeling food items in a hospital cafeteria appears to have increased customer's attention to the healthiness of their food choices, along with encouraging purchases of the ...
</a> Yet there are a number of specialist load – free worldwide credit cards, where you get these bureaubeating rates in every country – whether you're calling on ringgits in Malaysia, eating out on colóns in Costa Rica, or doing whatever you like with your Dong in Vietnam.
</a> "As far as the government is concerned, we will finishnegotiations and have a draft bill ready when parliament ...reconvenes in September," Ponta, who opposed the project beforecoming to power, was quoted as saying by state news agencyAgerpres.
</a> PRIVATE EQUITY and credit investment firm Apollo GlobalManagement LLC reported a tenfold increase insecond-quarter profit as the value of its funds jumped, andannounced its highest dividend since it went public in 2011.
</a> In the years after McQueary told Paterno that he had seen Jerry Sandusky engaged in a "very bad sexual act, a molestation act with a minor," Paterno approached him a few times and said how Sandusky was a sick guy, McQueary testified.
</a> There should be little disagreement across the political spectrum that growth and job creation remain America’s most serious national problem. Ahead of President Obama’s first State of the Union address of his second term, and further fiscal negotiations in Washington, America needs to rethink its priorities for economic policy.
</a> Hyundai hopes that its growing overseas production, whichhas already outpaced domestic output, will help it reduce itsreliance on the unionised Ulsan factory. Hyundai now assembles43 percent of its total global output in South Korea, accordingto company data. Its U.S. plant in Alabama is non-union.
</a> SciVac - 45 percent owned by Opko Health, which is controlled by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Chairman Phillip Frost - has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for distribution of its vaccine to dialysis and HIV sufferers in the United States.
</a> MAG's chief commercial officer Ken O'Toole added: "The new long-term agreement between Ryanair and MAG at Stansted shows that competition really does work, and it represents great news for both passengers and UK businesses.
</a> âTheyâre lightweight, task-specific tools to get the job done,â said Morris. âThatâs the direction things are heading. This model lets us meet the new world way better than the old model ever would have.”
</a> Citigroup eventually sold EMI in pieces in 2011, but keptthe pension fund to help facilitate the other sales. The dealwith PIC, known as a 'buyout transaction', means all the 20,000members of the pension fund will receive their full pensions.
</a> Venezuelans who possess an international airline ticket can exchange their bolivars for dollars through the Venezuela foreign exchange agency at the state-set rate of 6.3 bolivars per dollar. One can get up to $3,000 in U.S. dollars this way.
</a> Van Ginkel – making only his second start following a summer switch from Vitesse Arnhem – went down after an early challenge from Alex Pritchard and, despite briefly trying to carry on, soon hobbled off in the 10th minute.
</a> On the expenditure side of the economy, investment in plant and machinery and the net contribution from exports (once import growth is deducted) were just as important as household spending. The growth numbers from manufacturing and construction (which has been such a drag on the economy in recent years) were revised up from the first GDP estimate.
</a> On Tuesday, a roadside bomb struck a Hezbollah convoy near the Syrian border, wounding two, and last week a car bombing in south Beirut wounded 53 people in the heart of the militant group's bastion of support. Rockets have recently hit the Hezbollah stronghold south of the Lebanese capital.
</a> Dr. Chenchen Wang, director of the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said that because Zhang's study was observational, and did not randomly assign people to practice tai chi or not, it's impossible to say whether the exercise itself is responsible for the findings.
</a> Meanwhile, shorter-term ringgit bonds due in 2020 and sold in July for a yield of 3.9 percent have been in demand even after the sovereign ratings outlook was downgraded by Fitch Ratings. They now trade at 3.77 percent.
</a> In recent months Chinese, French, German, Japanese, South Korean and Greek companies have won engineering and construction contracts in power, energy, petrochemicals and rail projects with a cumulative value of billions of dollars.
</a> Security sources in Egypt and Israel both described the flyover as a navigational error, but it came shortly after militants killed an Egyptian policeman and wounded a second in an attack on a checkpoint in Sinai across the border from Gaza.
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</a> According to Wang and colleagues, the black hole needs to throw out more than 99% of the material in order to accomplish this. That ejected 99%, in turn, heats up the environment around it, which affects the evolution of the galaxy as a whole.
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</a> * Linc Energy Ltd soared 12.4 percent to a six-weekhigh of A$1.54 after the company said it had completed one wellat Cedar Point Field with an initial production rate of 1000barrels of oil equivalent per day.
</a> Even before having the conversation among family members, it might make sense to have a conversation with the person's primary physician, according to Amy Vandenbroucke, executive director of the National POLST Paradigm program. POLST is an acronym for "physician orders for life-sustaining treatment" – specific and legally binding medical directives designed for seriously ill patients likely to confront life-or-death medical decisions in the near future.
</a> Construction proceeded apace for more than ten years, and the billions of dollars began to multiply. In December 2000, the station had gained many more modules, including the first of four enormous wing-like solar panels.
</a> Ms Duffy said efforts were being made to ensure qualifications were more work-related. An A-level on software and systems development is to be introduced in September to encourage a greater uptake in the field of computing.
</a> "Whilst we have had a focus on exporters, because of theweak emerging markets it might be the domestic companies thatoutperform," James Butterfill, global equity strategist atCoutts said, noting recent improvement in euro zone PMI surveysof manufacturing and service sector activity.
</a> The strange-sounding order was decreed to help the brand retain its exclusivity, yet despite the gastric band on output, the Ferrari boss insisted profits could be upped. Impossible? No â Ferrari is on course to do just that, according to figures released today (1 August 2013).
</a> Conservative MP Priti Patel added: “I am surprised because other research and Government data has demonstrated that they are some obvious barriers and hindrances that need to be addressed in the workings of our relationship with the European Union.”
</a> âIt sounds like he wants to go out and test the market, and talk to whoever he needs or wants to talk to,â the Yankeesâ principal owner said on WFAN on Tuesday afternoon. âAnd thatâs not unusual, of course. We want him back. He knows that. Within reason, weâre going to do everything we can to make sure that happens. But time will tell.â
</a> Nationwide, premiums for Medicare Part D plans are expected to rise only slightly, averaging $31 per month in 2013 after staying at $30 for the prior three years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
</a> A creditors' committee formed by "a dozen or so" investmentfunds picked Rothschild because of its experience in Brazil,said one of the sources, who declined to be identified becausethe process is private. Law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen &Hamilton LLP and Pinheiro Neto Advogados were also hired, bothsources added.
</a> "At the same time, we hope that our foreign guests will respect the laws of the host-country according to the basic principle of the Olympic movement (the Russian legislation prohibits only LGBT propaganda among children)."
</a> Like the film, the musical will be based on actor Channing Tatum's experiences of working as a male stripper. Soderbergh and Tatum funded Magic Mike themselves before its release last year, and the film became a box office hit, taking $113 million (£73 million) worldwide. A sequel is already being planned.
</a> No single company has amassed a large enough stake to takecontrol alone, three sources told Reuters, and the large numberof creditors, which one source said was about 250, complicatesthe task of finding a compromise.
</a> Both Cormack and Stanger already worked in Goldman's ECM team, which runs deals such as stock market listings, rights issues and share placements, with Cormack having responsibility for the UK, Netherlands and EMEA growth markets while Stanger led the financing business for the German region.
</a> Even today there are some in the Ministry of the Lutherans, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Methodists and more that cannot lead a scout troop because they are Gay. These are good moral moderate Christians that are in denominations that accept Gays.
</a> Money wasn't a concern of the filmmakers, who spent about 5,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$645) to make the film, most used to book a room at the Mira Hotel where Snowden stayed part of the time he was in Hong Kong.
</a> The day many local fans couldn't wait for finally arrived Wednesday night. Rose attacked the rim aggressively and explosively and the Bulls downed the Pistons 96-81 to improve to 4-0 in exhibition play.
</a> The House is expected to vote later on Wednesday andThursday on measures that would fund veterans care, medicalresearch, national parks, the District of Columbia and the ArmyReserve. The measures are likely to be defeated in theDemocratic-controlled Senate, and Obama said he would veto themif they reached his desk.
</a> âI was at peace with the decision,â Alvarez says, in a voice not much above a whisper. âWe talked about it as a family. We are so close, and I have such a great support system, that we didnât let what other people thought affect us.â
</a> Pressure is mounting from all sides to reach an agreement. There is fear that the financial markets could start to dive if traders lose confidence that a deal will ultimately emerge. And furloughed federal workers, now entering week three of the partial shutdown, are just now starting to see the hit to their paychecks.
</a> It is oxymoronically a thriller that fails to live up to the genre, playing it safe from start to finish with an insipid hero, a pedestrian plot and a conclusion that is as predictable as the phases of the moon.
</a> The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) argues in a report published today that the Bank should consider imposing a five per cent limit in annual average house price appreciation. If prices rise faster, RICS argues that the Bankâs Financial Policy Committee should use its new suite of regulatory powers to make mortgage lending scarcer and more expensive.
</a> "Domestic instability was a part of that but so, too, was the chaotic foreign policy of Morsi," said Robert Springborg, Egyptian military expert and professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
</a> Any pleasure we derived in those days was in spite of, rather than thanks to, those in charge of the game. Our enjoyment came from communality, the shared sense of resistance, of sticking it to The Man.
</a> "I hope (I'm) more optimistic because (Saturday) I was pretty (down)," Rodriguez said. "One thing I'm really excited about is to get an MRI, get a full workout, like you guys have seen, in front of our whole staff.
</a> TOKYO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The dollar eased off a freshtwo-month low against the yen touched in early trade on Tuesdayand remained not far from an eight-month low against a basket ofmajor currencies, as a continuing U.S. fiscal standoff keptinvestors on their toes.
</a> Those comments came when he was asked if the Clintons could persuade him to leave the race, and he replied that he wasnât âterribly interested in what people who are not voters in the city of New York have to say.â
</a> Yahooâs new policy promises easier bug reporting, faster assessment and response followed by a fix and then ultimately proper respect to researchers who found the bugs and reported them in the first place. The Internet giant will now be offering proper cash rewards starting from $150 to as high as $15,000 depending on how unique and how much risk that particular vulnerability carries. Martinez said that cash rewards âwill be determined by a clear system based on a set of defined elements that capture the severity of the issue.â
</a> The HTC One Max will go on sale globally later this month and is the company's latest attempt to revive its smartphone business. The Android handset is essentially a larger version of HTC's critically acclaimed One flagship phone, with otherwise similar specs.
</a> Revenue grew 55 percent to $157.4 million in the second quarter from $101.3 million a year ago. Most of that revenue growth came from Pandora's mobile business, which grew 92 percent from last year to $116 million.
</a> "That's not a goal but it could be a feature, in order tohave accommodating conditions that support maximum employment,so that's really very helpful," Evans said. "We could even dothis as long as inflation was below 3 percent, because I thinksymmetry around the inflation target is incredibly important."
</a> The tepid sales growth for the quarter ended June 30 reflects the challenges facing McDonald's Corp., which for years had been a standout in the fast-food industry. Part of the problem is that economic conditions remain weak in many regions of the world, with the company repeatedly noting that people are being more careful about eating out. That's true in Europe and the region encompassing Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the company said, with both posting slight declines in sales at restaurants open at least a year.
</a> Riser had 32 percent of the vote, and McAllister, a newcomer to politics, had 18 percent, far below the 50 percent or more of the vote as required by state law to be declared the winner, according to the secretary of state's website.
</a> The asteroid could raise new concerns in neighboring Russia, which has been hit twice in the last century by devastating asteroids and where scientists have not only been actively spotting and tracking them, but considering plans to deal with the potential threat from space.
</a> Most workplace schemes are known as defined contribution because the value of your pension at retirement is based on the size of your pension fund which you have built up during your working life.
</a> Sure, Britain needs leaders who can communicate and "relate" to ordinary voters (whatever that actually means). But the real test of leadership is about far more than that: it's about courage. There's no courage in taking a stand you know will be supported, in entering a contest where you're virtually guaranteed to win (or guaranteed to lose).
</a> A spokesman for the group explained that Vivendi saw itsfuture in content being centered on its Universal Music Groupbusiness, Canal Plus in pay television, as well as otherentertainment activities of which it would own 100 percent.
</a> And of course, there had to be a good cause involved somehow. Ferguson and Mikita asked their guests to donate to a charity, instead of spending money on wedding gifts. Fittingly, the coupleâs charity of choice was Tie The Knot, an organisation working towards marriage equality in various states.
</a> For years, the data have been mounting, with recent evidence emerging all the time to paint a richer picture of STEM. An analysis released June 10 from the Brookings Institution, for instance, found that STEM jobs in the United States comprise close to one-fifth of all occupations, and half of them don't require a four-year college degree. Newly minted computer science and engineering graduates make at least $5,000 more on average than those in any other field, said an April survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Yet fewer than 4 in 10 students who begin college intent on majoring in a STEM subject complete a degree in the field, according to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
</a> "There's no one in the world I love more," she added. "My sister and I are closer than close. I want this for her probably more than she wants it. I'm just really, really excited."
</a> Of course there's always a long trail back up the supplier chain where carbon dioxide -- and other emissions, good and bad -- are being generated, but Krantz reassures me that the company is also encouraging its suppliers to green up their processes.
</a> Pure Storage is pioneering a new class of enterprise storage that has been designed from the ground up to take full advantage of flash memory. The company’s products accelerate random I/O-intensive applications like server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, rich analytics/OLAP, SQL, NoSQL) and cloud computing. Pure Storage makes it cost effective to broadly deploy flash within the data center, enabling organizations to manage growth within existing power and space constraints. Launching later this year, the company’s products...
</a> The manager, Paul Owens of the Phillies, had made no promises beforehand, telling Gooden only that he would try to get him into the game. So he wasnât expecting the call when the bullpen phone rang in the fourth inning.
</a> The results underlined the changes made by the outgoing CEO,with costs down and investment focused on a new fibre networkand a TV service to try to return the group to revenue growth after a four-year downturn.
</a> He said the French man and woman, both in their 50s, set off early Monday morning up the Roche de la Muzelle mountain. They were last spotted at noon that day when they were beginning their descent, and an alert was sent out when they did not return in the evening.
</a> Miss Greening, the International Development Secretary, said Nigeria’s own investment in its satellite technology was “sensible” and stressed that it was not being funded with British money.
</a> Former Chiefs and New York Giants safety Mark Collins, one of the more than 4,500 former pro football players who were plaintiffs in a concussion lawsuit against the NFL, was pleased with a $765 million tentative settlement announced Thursday.
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</a> De La Rosa was laboring to hold a one-run lead in the sixth after giving up a leadoff single to Jedd Gyorko, throwing a wild pitch and surrendering a single to Jesus Guzman, putting runners at first and third with none out.
</a> Because Akin was on both sides of the deal, the parties inthe trial had access to information that would normally be keptconfidential due to attorney-client privilege. That informationwas fair game in the trial, but still not fit for the public.
</a> Wheeler (4-1, 3.72 ERA) may not be receiving as much attention, but he's pitched nearly as well as Harvey lately. The prized rookie is 3-0 with a 2.78 ERA over his last four starts after giving up four runs - three earned - in six innings of Thursday's 7-4 win over Atlanta.
</a> Catalan separatists are also watching closely a planned September 2014 Scottish referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, hoping it will promote the idea of self-determination for regions within European Union countries.