Tall galvanized chain link catch fence above the wall of an Orlando racetrack

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Commercial Chain Link Fence Installation at an Orlando Racetrack

A tall galvanized catch fence on the track wall and a lower perimeter run, swapped out a section at a time.

Location: Orlando area, FL
Material: Galvanized chain link
Style: Catch fence and perimeter
Site: Working racetrack

This commercial chain link fence installation went in at a short oval racetrack, and it is the tallest chain link on our recent projects list. There are really two fences. A tall galvanized catch fence rides the top of the concrete wall in front of the grandstand. A lower perimeter fence follows the service road around the outside. They share the same mesh and do very different jobs.

Straightline Fence keeps the mesh, pipe and fittings for work like this in our St. Cloud yard, so the crew never sat waiting on a supplier between sections. Everything we stock in chain link is galvanized and made in the USA. If you run a property that needs more than a back yard fence, call (407) 593-1888 and we will walk the site with you.

Catch fence

How tall does a commercial chain link fence need to be?

Tall enough for what it has to stop. At a racetrack that puts the catch fence far above anything you would build around a yard.

The fence on top of the wall keeps debris, loose parts and pieces of tire out of the stands. Height alone does not do that. Above about eight feet you stop scaling up a residential fence and start engineering one, which means posts sized to the run, a heavier top rail and tighter spacing, because a tall panel of mesh takes a real load from the wind long before a car ever touches it.

The perimeter run on the outside is a different animal. It is there to control who walks where, so it follows the service road at a normal height and puts its money into straight lines and tight tension. Our chain link fence installation page covers the range we build, from four feet up to thirty.

Galvanized chain link perimeter fence along the service road of an Orlando racetrack

Site work

Does a commercial fence job need site work first?

Often it does. Along the back stretch here, the line had to be cut and graded before the first post went in.

Two of the photos show a long mound of dirt pushed up beside the new fence. That is the soil that came out while the line was cleared and leveled. Sandy Central Florida ground is easy to dig and poor at holding a post on its own, so every post on this job sits in concrete at two to three feet. Corner and gate posts go deeper, since they end up carrying the tension of the whole run.

Planning a fence on a commercial lot? Tell the estimator whether the line is clear. A clean line and a line through palmetto, fill and old fence footings get priced very differently, and nobody likes learning that after the bid. Our commercial fence installation page walks through how we plan and quote that kind of site.

New chain link fence line beside a graded dirt berm at an Orlando racetrack

Scheduling

Can a commercial fence go up while the business stays open?

Yes. The trick is building in sections, so the areas people use every day are never all closed at once.

A racetrack is the extreme version of this. There is a grandstand, a pit area, access roads and a tower, and none of it can sit fenced off for a week. The crew finished a stretch, closed it up and moved on. In the first photo below, the original fence is still standing along the wall while the new one goes up right behind it. In the second, the crew is wrapping up the far turn after the front stretch was already done.

The same approach works at a warehouse, a school or a retail lot. We plan the run around your hours, keep the gates working through the job and leave every section secure at the end of the day. Post setting is the loud part, and it takes one day per section. To get a number for your site, schedule a free estimate or call (407) 593-1888.