Decorative concrete fence walls include any type of concrete barrier wall designed with aesthetics as a major priority. The idea behind decorative concrete is to improve the plain look that generally accompanies concrete. Concrete, used because it is comparatively inexpensive and durable, has a plain and rough appearance.
To improve concrete fence walls, manufacturers began to create molds into which concrete was poured. These flat “pan” molds were designed to mimic the appearance of many other types of material used for fence building. Such decorative designs regularly included brick, stone and stucco fences. Pan molds improved the aesthetic appearance of decorative concrete fence walls to an extent, but they only enabled one side of the wall to have that look.
As concrete fence walls continued to develop, the mold method and the precast concrete industry moved from horizontal pan molds to vertical forming equipment. At first, only short walls could be produced vertically because of the pressure exerted by the concrete on the sides of the precast concrete form when it was poured vertically. Developers improved the strength of the forming equipment, and vertically-poured systems increased in height.
The market demand for security fence walls was increasing. Builders wanted a decorative concrete fence wall that would be beautiful on the inside of a yard and to the outside of a highway while still meeting fence code. Homeowners wanted a decorative wall that would look equally good from the front yard as from the back, or as a gated community wall. One of the greatest benefits of the vertically-poured walls is the ability to have aesthetic appeal on both sides.
While many vertically-poured forming equipment systems offer one decorative design on the front and the back of a wall, only one company offers interchangeable concrete forms liners so that a single piece of forming equipment can produce multiple types of walls. AFTEC Concrete Forming Equipment uses polyurethane form liners that come in multiple designs including stone, slate, cmu block, stucco, brick and sandstone for both the panel and the column of your wall. For example, you could have stone form columnswhile your panel is stucco (as shown below). In addition, you could choose a completely different type of decorative concrete fence wall for the opposite side.
AFTEC even has the opportunity for you to design your own decorative stone privacy fence. With you as the architect, we can take your design to our in-house crew who can make a negative print which we will use to form your completely unique polyurethane liner.
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