{"id":1099,"date":"2017-11-15T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:15:46","slug":"solid-picket-wrought-iron-fence-why-cant-i-find-it-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/solid-picket-wrought-iron-fence-why-cant-i-find-it-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Picket Wrought Iron Fence – Why Can’t I Find It Anywhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why is Solid Picket Fence Hard to Find?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every wrought iron fence you find locally and online has hollow square tube pickets.\u00a0 However, you want a solid picket wrought iron fence!\u00a0 Why are they so hard to find anywhere?\u00a0 Can you even get a solid picket iron fence anymore?\u00a0 Read on to see why its so difficult to find this type of iron fence anymore.<\/p>\n

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Why Does All Wrought Iron Fence Have Hollow Pickets?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Many people equate the hollow pickets on wrought iron fence to companies cutting costs and trying to make more money off of a lower quality panel.\u00a0 However, that is not the case at all!\u00a0 There are actually three reasons why wrought iron fence (as well as steel and aluminum fence) have stopped using solid fence pickets:\u00a0 weight, cost and\u00a0improved manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Reason #1 – Weight<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

This is by far the biggest reason for the change to hollow iron fence pickets.\u00a0 Solid pickets add a LOT of weight to a panel or gate.\u00a0 This extra weight puts additional strain on post anchors, brackets and gate hardware.\u00a0 It also makes the pieces cost more to ship and much harder to to move around when you are installing the pieces.<\/p>\n

My heavy-duty 6ft tall x 8ft wide Signature Grade Classic style iron fence panel with hollow pickets weighs 125lbs.\u00a0 If we custom made that same panel only with solid 3\/4″ pickets, that 6×8 panel would weigh over 350lbs!\u00a0 That’s a lot of weight for a person to move around for off-loading and installation!<\/p>\n

Reason #2 – Cost<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

It should come as no surprise that having the solid pickets on a fence panel or gate adds to the cost of the piece with all the added materials.\u00a0 You can expect a solid picket fence panel to cost almost 75%-125% more (depending on picket size and application).\u00a0 \u00a0That is a lot of additional cost for no real gain in strength or performance.<\/p>\n

Reason #3 – Improved Manufacturing<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Like many things in the modern world, improvements and advancements in materials and manufacturing have changed how things are built.\u00a0 Hollow tube square pickets can be manufactured to be almost as strong and bend resilient when made in the correct thickness.\u00a0 We also build our hollow pickets to have a rounded square edge to them.\u00a0 That proper thickness and rounded edge give you a hollow picket that is almost as strong and bend resilient as a solid picket without the weight and added cost.<\/p>\n

The amount of force required to bend our hollow iron fence pickets vs the force required to bend a solid picket one is something that would be catastrophic to either piece.\u00a0 In other words, a person kicking a hollow picket fence would do no damage just like a solid picket fence.\u00a0 However, a tree falling or a car crashing through the fence is going to damage either a solid picket or hollow picket piece beyond repair.<\/p>\n

Can I get a Solid Picket Iron Fence Anywhere?<\/span><\/h3>\n

You’ve read the above 3 items and while you understand the reasoning, you really need a fence or gate with solid pickets.\u00a0 We can still get you covered there.\u00a0 We do not stock any iron fence panels with solid pickets, but we have made many of them custom.\u00a0 \u00a0 Custom work does have a longer 10-14 week lead time over our standard 2 week lead time for stocked pieces.\u00a0 We price all solid picket iron fences by the job.\u00a0 You can check out our custom fence page HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Conclusion…<\/span><\/h3>\n

Don’t be worried that hollow picket equals lower quality fence.\u00a0 Modern fences are built just as strong, if not stronger with hollow pickets for the reasons we mentioned above.\u00a0 And if you do need a solid picket fence, keep our custom services in mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every wrought iron fence you find locally and online has hollow square tube pickets.\u00a0 However, you want a solid picket wrought iron fence!\u00a0 Why are they so hard to find anywhere?\u00a0 Can you even get a solid picket iron fence anymore?\u00a0 Read on to see why its so difficult to find this type of iron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[226,258,257,259,185],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-fence","category-misc","tag-rod-iron-fence","tag-solid-iron-fence","tag-solid-picket-fence","tag-solid-picket-iron-fence","tag-wrought-iron-fence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}