Sightlines are the whole argument. The problems precinct operators bring us are consistent: after-hours access into service yards, vehicles cutting through car parks between properties, bins and plant walking off, and trolleys or balls escaping along a road frontage. Chain wire handles all four while leaving the site visible. Security cameras keep working through it, staff can see the yard from inside, and there is nowhere for anybody to stand out of sight behind a solid panel. Where a boundary needs to be *seen* as much as it needs to hold, that transparency is a feature rather than a compromise.
The gate is usually the real job. On a precinct site the fence itself is straightforward and the thinking goes into the openings. Gates get sized around how the site actually operates: a pedestrian gate on the staff path with a keyed or coded lock, double swing gates where a delivery van needs the width, and a cantilever sliding gate where there is no room for a swing arc across a driveway. Gates can be built ready for automation even if you are not automating now — the post and track allowance is inexpensive at install and awkward to retrofit afterwards. Gates are on RYNO's published service list alongside chain wire.
Finish is a frontage decision, not a durability one. Plain galvanised is the workhorse and it is the right answer for a back-of-house yard nobody sees. Where the fence faces a car park or a street, PVC-coated mesh in black or green reads markedly softer and holds its appearance for years. Black in particular tends to visually recede against planting, which is why it is the usual pick along a customer-facing boundary. AS 2423-2002, 'Coated steel wire fencing products for terrestrial, aquatic and general use', is the Australian Standard covering chain-link fencing fabric together with its zinc, zinc/aluminium-alloy and plastic coatings.
