Aluminum fences as the name suggest are fences built with aluminum. Aluminum is a light weight metal that do not corrode or rust like iron and it is for this fact that the popularity of aluminum fences are gaining popularity in recent years.
If compared to the normal iron fence, there are advantages and disadvantages of using aluminum as fences. The main disadvantage id of course the hight cost of this material. Aluminum cost a lot more than iron, wood or plastic and if your compound is large, building a aluminum fence around it will be vey costly.
Another disadvantage of aluminum is, even though more lasting than iron because of it’s anti corrosion and rust resistancy, it is not as tough as iron or wood. If you knock a piece of aluminum tube against a piece of wood or iron, you will notice that the aluminum tube will be badly dented while the iron or wood will still look like new. So if there should be an accident like a tree or a branch falling on the fence, the damage will be substancially worse for the aluminum fence than a wooden fence.
Installation of aluminum fences will also involve more special tools. Whereas wood can be nailed with a simple hammer, aluminum has to be rivetted to hole them in place and to do a simple rivet, 2 tools have to be used, the drill and the rivet gun. So again that will be 2 times the work and the cost.
However, the factor that attracts many to have aluminum fences is the lifespan of these fences without any major maintenance. As long as care is taken not to cause damage to these kind of fences, the actual cost of installation will pay for itself in terms of maintenance cost of compared with a wooden fence of an iron fence. Taking into account all these pros and cons, it is up yo the individual to decide if they need a normal iron fence or a aluminum fence.