Galvanized panel set in a cedar or steel frame. Open enough to keep the view, tight enough to hold a dog, and far more durable than the look suggests.
Get a Free QuoteHog panel has moved from pasture to patio, and most of what fails is the framing, not the panel. A galvanized panel will outlast the house. The cedar frame around it will not, if the posts are shallow or the panel is left to flex.
We build the frame like a fence and treat the panel as infill: deep-set posts, a rigid top and bottom rail, and the panel fastened at intervals so it cannot oil-can in the wind.
Warm cedar frame around galvanized panel. The most common residential build.
Powder-coated steel for a cleaner modern line and a longer maintenance interval.
Panel on the top half over solid cedar below for privacy where you need it.
Shorter runs for garden enclosures and courtyards where you want light through.
Hog panel took off in Dallas on the back of the modern-farmhouse builds around Oak Cliff, Bishop Arts and the East Dallas infills, where owners want light and sightline without a chain link look. It suits those lots: narrow side yards where a solid fence would make a corridor feel like a tunnel. It is also the fence we most often get called to fix, almost always because someone framed it with 4x4s on 8ft centres and the panel now bows. We shorten the spans and stiffen the frame instead.
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Common questions about a fence people mostly know from pasture use.
The panel itself is galvanized and will outlast the frame around it by a wide margin. What rusts is a cut edge, so panels should be sized to the bay rather than trimmed on site wherever possible, and any cut end sealed.
Not by itself. The horizontal wires give a foothold and the openings will not meet pool barrier requirements, which is a code question rather than a preference. For a pool we would build a proper barrier and use hog panel elsewhere in the yard.
Cedar looks warmer and suits a garden boundary. Steel stays true on long runs and does not need refinishing. The frame is the part that eventually fails, so on an exposed run where nobody wants a maintenance cycle, steel is the honest answer.
The steel panel in a hog panel fence is essentially indestructible in a residential setting. Everything that goes wrong goes wrong in the timber frame that holds it: the frame racks, the fixings pull, or the panel was never tensioned into a frame that could hold it square in the first place.
The look is the reason people choose it: a modern, open fence that still contains a dog. Both halves of that depend on the frame. Hog panel suits people who want a modern, open look and still need containment, and it fails to suit anyone wanting privacy, since you can see straight through it. That sounds obvious and it is still the most common reason someone regrets choosing it, so it is worth being certain before we build.
We walk your Dallas property, give you a straight price, and show you exactly how we build it to last.
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