Elegance That Ignores Winter
The wrought-iron look — slim black pickets, decorative finials, real presence — without wrought iron's rust, scraping, and repainting. Aluminum is the fence for view lots, front yards, and pools, where you want a boundary that frames the property instead of hiding it.
Classic wrought iron is gorgeous and a maintenance treadmill — in a climate that salts its roads five months a year, iron wants wire-brushing and repainting on a schedule. Powder-coated aluminum delivers the same silhouette from the sidewalk with none of the corrosion: it simply doesn't rust, the factory finish outlasts paint by decades, and it weighs little enough that installation is cleaner on tricky grades. It's also the rackable material — panels angle to follow Rochester's rolling lots without stair-stepped gaps at the bottom, which matters enormously for pets and for pool code.
Installed aluminum in the Rochester area typically runs about $30–$55 per linear foot depending on height, picket density, and grade of the line — residential grades at the lower end, taller commercial profiles above. A 150-foot run usually lands between roughly $4,800 and $8,000 installed. See the material-by-material breakdown on the fence cost page.
Residential aluminum handles normal life — weather, dogs, soccer balls — without drama; a riding mower at speed is another story, same as any fence. Commercial-grade profiles exist for higher-abuse settings, and single panels swap easily if life happens.
The pool-specific styles do — proper height, picket spacing, and no-climb bottom rails, paired with self-closing, self-latching gates. It's the most popular pool barrier we install; the full code rundown is on the pool fence page.
Functionally none — an occasional rinse and a gate-hinge check in spring. The powder-coat finish is baked on at the factory and doesn't want repainting, which is precisely why people trade iron for it.
Better than nearly anything else — aluminum panels rack (angle) to track the grade continuously, keeping the bottom rail an even distance off the ground the whole run. On Rochester's rolling lots, that's often the deciding feature.
Free aluminum fence quotes across Rochester & Monroe County.