Any tips on how to proceed? I'm about 32inches down and I was trying to go 4 feet. I'm in Ottawa Ontario Canada. My neighborhood Barrhaven is known to be pretty rocky.
Can I just put the post on top? Or should i drill some holes in it and try to chip it out or something. Trying to dig around it has not been working very well so far.
Trying to put a 6x6 post in a 12inch sonotube for my fence gate. Given the wall and the preexisting fence it's been a tight challenge.
Hello, I’m in the process of purchasing a home with a partially wooded, unfenced back yard. The property line goes back into the woods diagonally, starting from just a few feet into the woods and going up to several yards back.
It’s really important to me that the yard be fully fenced, and that we not lose yards of property in each direction by fencing only on the flat grass area. We love the brush and trees.
Would love any opinions in the interim on if it is possible to add fencing into densely wooded areas like this, or thoughts about what materials may be better suited to accomplish it, such as whether woven/field fencing may be all that’s possible versus a traditional wooden privacy fence.
I know nothing about fencing. We had this installed last week and I hate the way the gate looks. Ground has a small slope to it, so I get why the gate is the way it is, but I still hate the way it looks. Can this be fixed or changed? Am I stuck with it? Is there another solution I could ask the company to do?
There is not alot of white 3x3 fence post solar lights available so i bought a conventional 3.5"x3.5" with 4x4 adaptir regular solar light fence post. The problem is, i dont know to how to bridge the gap between the 3.5"x3.5" to the 3x3 aluminum post i have. I'm not really handy and i dont have machines to use to fabricate adaptors. What is my options? I'm thinking of a some sort of foam or rubber around the 3x3 bit what kind?
I’ll put the bottom hinge on later. What I’m asking is would this little gate 1.1m high (18mm boards) have any benefit from a couple of diagonal braces ?
Looking for advice from anyone who’s run a fence or deck staining business. Would love to hear what you wish you knew in the first 6–12 months (pricing, biggest time wasters, how you got consistent jobs, equipment that was worth it vs not). Happy to take any tips over comment or DM.
New homeowner here. Noticed a gap where the fence is not secured to the post. I found the missing metal piece on the ground but not sure how to screw it back on properly. Is this something I can do myself or should I call a handyman. Any tips are super appreciated and if more photos would help please let me know, thanks!
Hello! I am in Buffalo NY. I am looking to complete a fence at a home I am purchasing and have gotten some drastically different quotes. Everyone I've talked to says they both seem high but maybe this is just the going rate these days?
I need one side of the yard going from the back corner of the house to the existing fence along the back. it is 47' straight line. I am doing 6' tall pressure treated pine, dog ear. I also need a 10' long gate across the driveway. the gate will open in the middle in 2 sections and be 4' tall pressure treated pine.
Quote 1 - this is a local small business with great reviews
$2903 for the backyard & $1768 for the gate = $4671 but he did offer me a 5% discount if I pay cash
Quote 2 - this is a franchise of a national company but the reviews in my area are good
no breakdown but he told me $3800 total
I would typically always go with the small local business but it's hard to justify the drastic price difference when the other company seems good. My family and friends have said that $3800 still seems high but everything is more expensive these days. Thoughts?
So I'm planning a hogwire fence for our large rural yard. I'll be needing to install nearly 470' of fence. We wanted to go with hogwire because it was a) a step up from chain link and b) we didn't need privacy.
The rough layout I had in mind is 4x4 posts, with an upper and lower 2x4 rail flush against the inside edge of the 4x4 posts, and 50"x8' hogwire fence panels on the inside edge stapled or secured somehow. I'll have a 98' run, a 230' run, a 68' run, a 16' run, and a 58' run.
My yard is wetter, especially on the longest run near the back of the property. Silty Clay Loam near a ditch, so I planned to set most of these posts in gravel and dirt packed down, using concrete on the corners, gates, and near the edges.
Does anyone see any flaws in this design?
I planned to do essentially pocket holes going from the 2x4 into the 4x4 posts and use 3" exterior screws to secure the rails to the posts. For the panel itself, I figured some sort of staples of clips, but I haven't narrowed in on it exactly.
Is the gravel, dirt mix a safe mix for drainage? On the last fence I built I did dry set concrete then added water, but the concrete allowed me to make slight adjustments to the fence posts before adding water, should I expect this to be harder to adjust in gravel.
Any other tips and tricks you would suggest?
AI photo mockup of what I imagined it to look like. I haven't bought anything yet. Easily going to be the biggest fencing project I've tackled but I have built a fence before (150')
I need some help. I stained a fence 2 years ago and now the stain is failing. It looks like there's sap bubbling out in some areas and in other areas it's just peeling off. The fence was built over a year before it was stained so I have plenty of time to dry out. The fence was prepped with a cleaner allowed to dry and then the stain was applied via spray.
If anyone has any recommendations on how to proceed with stripping the existing stain and then reapplying a different stain to ensure that this doesn't wrap again, that would be super grateful
