A weird thing I saw with vinyl fences in a new build area

I was out in that big new housing part of Henderson last week, doing a quote. Every single house had the same basic white vinyl fence, the kind you get in a kit. But on about half of them, the top rail was already starting to bow out between the posts, maybe an inch or two. These places are only a year old. It made me look closer, and I think the posts are set too far apart. The spec sheet from the builder probably said 8-foot centers to save money, but with the heat we get, that vinyl just can't handle the span without support. It's going to look awful in another summer. Has anyone else run into this with builder-grade vinyl jobs, and what's the furthest you'll space posts on a 6-foot tall panel?

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hall.alex5h ago

Read a contractor say 6 feet max for vinyl in our heat.

stella90428m ago

Yeah, that reminds me of my buddy's place over in the west valley. He had a guy put in a single 8-foot section of vinyl fence a few summers back. By the end of that first brutal heat wave, the whole panel had bowed out so bad it looked like a cartoon. They had to cut it out and redo it with a steel post right in the middle. The heat just makes that material so much weaker. I'd be really careful going past what that contractor said.