An eco-friendly alternative to wood fencing is bamboo fencing. Bamboo is easily replenished, because it grows 12 times faster than average trees. Bamboo is highly durable and also looks great. The quality of this type of fencing that stands out the most is that you can build it yourself effortlessly with a few tools.

There is a large variety of bamboo fencing. The most common quality designs of this beautiful fencing are when they are tied together in rolls or panels. The most common diameters of the poles for these most common designs will be one half or one-inch diameters. Heavy-duty galvanized wire will bind these together to make your bamboo fencing.

Proven well, bamboo is a very strong material. Earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, and even car crashes have been known to be no match for bamboo fencing. A waxy material is known to cover bamboo to make it water resistant, so it can endure water way better than regular wood, not getting soggy.

Bamboo fencing is full of tropical beauty, proof that the look varies. Some kinds of fences don’t give much privacy, like chain-link fences. The slats on bamboo fencing are close together, providing privacy you desire and should have. You don’t even have to worry about the height of the fencing, because you can cut the bamboo at almost any height you want.

Lots of people would look at all of the pros in bamboo and think it is an expensive material. Aluminum fences, wrought iron fences, and chain link fences are all way more expensive than this type of fencing. Furthermore, they are more easier to install. They don’t require outrageously complicated looks like aluminum fences. Or an expert to install them like wrought iron fencing. It may be simple enough for an average renovating homeowner, as well as being easy to restore.

Structure in this fencing such as rolls and panels also come in woven bamboo. Also by wire, these often are composed of smaller canes. Split bamboo fencing is another type of this durable fencing; it is bonded together, but consists of the outer section of the bamboo canes. Although woven or split types of bamboo fencing don’t last as long as the other types.