My friend has just been fitting a new horse fence and I have been visiting her and taking a look at it. I am interested in getting a new one myself and so I wanted to look at hers to see what I thought of it. In the past we have both had traditional wooden fences which have been quite cheap. We are not good at looking after them and they have ended up broken and needing a lot of repair or rotting and needing replacement. We have both had animals escape as a result of this and so have decided that it would be a good idea to go for something different. She has therefore gone for a vinyl fence and it looks really great. Of course it is the long term sustainability that we are really interested in and until she has had it for about five years we have no way of knowing whether it is good. However, the fact that it needs no treatment has sold it to me, as well as the fact that it looks so good and so I have decided to go for one anyway and take the risk and just hope that it pays off.