Academy Welded Wire Mesh Manufacturers

A two generation family business, Academy Fence offers the industries widest selection of welded wire fence mesh sizes, roll sizes, heights, colors and gauges. We have Garden Fence, Deer Fence, Wire Mesh, Hardware Cloth, Chicken Wire, Hex Netting, Welded Wire Gates, Silt/Erosion Control Fencing all in stock and at rock bottom wholesale pricing.

From 1/8″ x 1/8″ mesh, to 2″ x 4″ mesh in various heights and lengths, gauges and colors there are over 300 choices! But our easy to navigate website and experienced staff will make it easy to determine the options to fit your practical and financial wire mesh fence needs.

Contact us for samples shipped free!

Benefit from our 50 years of experience, prompt service, and professional courteous staff. Call now to speak with a qualified fencing expert with at least twenty years experience: 973-674-0600 | Fax (973)-674-0400

Academy Welded Wire Mesh Manufacturers

10% Off Hurricane Sandy Fence Repair Parts & Labor

Wooden Privacy Fence Damaged by Hurricane Sandy

In light of the recent economic challenges as well as the unforeseeable damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, we at Academy Fence Company decided to do our part by discounting all fence repairs related to the hurricane.

So call 973-674-0600 or contact us now and mention this offer for a full 10% discount on all fence repair parts & labor for damage resulting from Hurricane Sandy.

This offer is good through April 2013 and includes repairs to all types of Wood Fence, Chain Link, Welded Wire, Aluminum, PVC Vinyl Fence and any type of fence within our realm of expertise. As always benefit from our 50 years of experience, prompt service, and professional, courteous staff.

An experienced fence expert at 973-674-0600 now. We look forward to hearing from you.

10% Off Hurricane Sandy Fence Repair Parts & Labor

Compsting with Chickens Article a Must Read for Composting Chicken Raisers

Many of us here in the USA are participating in the return to backyard farming and we have already posted one article referencing the Backyard Chickens website’s Welded Wire Chicken Coop discussion. There’s an article in the works about using welded wire to build a compost bin, and this new post in Backyard Chickens Learning Center is an absolutely inspiring one discussing the advantages of having your chickens work the compost pile!

The article contains instructional information such as, “Whether you have a large or small chicken yard, just a couple chickens or hundreds, you can still have chickens help you with your compost.  The best way is to just throw all your compostable materials right into the chicken yard. It will better utilize their manure by incorporating it with the other materials, instead of causing mud, rain runoff and compacted dirt & manure.” as well as information on professionals like Karl Hammer of Vermont Compost Company who, “doesn’t feed any purchased feed to his flock of several hundred chickens. Instead, they free range on his mountains of compost, gleaning all their nutritional food from the compost made from food scraps, cow manure, and hay.”

Read more on the Backyard Chickens website.

Compsting with Chickens Article a Must Read for Composting Chicken Raisers

Fence Word of the Month: Hardscape

Hardscape is a term used in landscaping – particularly in urban and suburban areas – which refers so refers to the paved areas like streets & sidewalks, large business complexes & housing developments, and other industrial areas where the upper soil profile is not exposed to the actual surface of the Earth.

In fence work, we sometimes have installations which deal with soil, foliage and hardscape.

Fence Word of the Month: Hardscape

Slow Season for Fence Contractors Equals Opportunity for Homeowners

Seriously, how many of us have at one point said (or even just thought), “I’ll get back to this in the Spring?” It gets cold and we don’t really feel like busting our frost-bitten fingers on outdoor projects. But think of how much better that hot cocoa tastes when you’ve earned it. And here are a few reason why Winter is actually the best time to address your fence projects.

1. Getting a fence installation or parts estimate. Guess what? Those fence crews who can’t seem to get a moment to breathe during the warmer months are actually looking for work in the cold season, and as opposed to charging full price (or even more on a rush schedule) for a job, a fence company will be glad to take on an off-season project at rock-bottom rates.
2. Better prices on fence parts. Since demand in New Jersey, the Tri-State area and the rest of the USA drops for fence lumber, metal and labor in the winter time, those savings can be passed along to the customer. Remember; wood, aluminum and welded wire manufacturers and distributors want to keep inventory flowing.
3. Fewer schedule conflicts. During the Spring, Summer and Fall you’ll want the use of your yard and pool for meals, games and gatherings. Why not have work done when you are inside anyway with the windows closed – sheltered from the sound of saws, shovels and occasional expletives.
4. Less interference. Trees, weeds, shrubs and other foliage that can make a landscape harder to manage at high summer are at their most dormant in the Winter, leaving you and the installers with the clearest view of the fence and project requirements.
5. We need to keep our fence installation crews working. Keeping the best fence installers in the Tri-State area on our payroll isn’t as easy as you might think and we have to keep them working throughout the year or we’ll lose them to other fence contractors.

So contact us by email or give us a call now at 973-674-0600 and let our slow season be your opportunity for the best priced quality wood fence, aluminum fence, welded wire, dog run, chain link or vinyl fence available.

As always we welcome your comments, questions or suggestions (no expletives, please).

Slow Season for Fence Contractors Equals Opportunity for Homeowners

An Unlikely Recommendation Against Fences

Decorative Holiday Fence Ideas and How to Implement Them

With Thanksgiving passed, many of us are well into the holiday spirit, so here are a few ideas and implementations for incorporating your fence into your home and landscape's holiday look. 

Firstly we have a great idea from DIY Network to upcycle picket fence pieces into a rustic "North woods-style" wreath. The process is to cut the wood pickets and attach them to a large wooden wreath form using hot glue and nails, then securing garland and pine cones with 22-gauge floral wire. Click here for detailed instructions. 

 




On a post & rail fence, simply hanging a wreath over one of the posts offers a simple solution for a rustic country holiday look as in this picture from Alaska in Pictures. In this case it's likely that no fastener is even needed. If a fastening method seems necessary, fishing line works well. 


 Here's another wonderfully rustic image from Ocracoke, North Carolina of a simple wreath hung on a cedar picket fence covered in lichen. Thanks to George Brown and Pixadilly.com for this one. 




 Now for those who are looking at a much more refined vision for the season, we would like to offer the following two much more upscale holiday landscape designs. 

 Below is the Harrington Oaks Christmas look from ideabooks by houzz.com. With a design combining lights, ribbons, wreaths and garlands, you will surely want a fastening system and as mentioned above, fishing line works well. For heavier items like wreaths, just wrap it around a few times. Avoid using nails if possible, but if they are necessary, be sure to use galvanized in avoidance of rust.

 Pam offers the look to the right in her Simple Details blog. It's from a page in the Pottery Barn catalog and as she puts it, "After a trip to Dollar Tree for ornaments and my garage attic to retrieve the wreaths, I'm only 658 ornaments, 219 glue sticks, underestimated hours of labor and a dusting of snow, away from the picturesque perfection of page 76!" 

Aside from simple hanging a wreath, we also came across a couple of ideas to spruce up a chain link fence for the holidays. What could be easier than to hang Christmas ornaments from the chain link? That's just what Stefanie Girard suggests in her Sweater Surgery blog. 

This technique can be used for other holidays as well, but a more traditional look can also be achieved on a chain link fence as Vicky of Chain Link Trellis blog offers below, in which she drapes the fence with artificial (or "fake", as she puts it) garland, which could of course be substituted with the real thing. 

 In the image to the left from Naturworks organic gardening and landscape design in Northford, Connecticut, who take a completely natural approach to the holidays, we can see how a solid board wooden privacy fence is transformed for the season into a "wall of wreaths", each one custom made. 

And the last piece we'll enjoy comes from Dave Huss via photospin.com and represents a holiday fence design which is both non-traditional and rustic at the same time. More of a spring wreath, but the idea could easily be adapted for the winter season. It appears to be a wreath made of barb wire, hanging on a welded wire fence. Don't mind the POSTED Keep Out sign. 

If you have any innovative or traditional ideas for incorporating and integrating the fence into a celebratory seasonal holiday design, please share with us and feel free to post pics. 

Happy Holidays.