While playing with my new photography toys, I dragged myself outside to make some critical fixes to my collapsing fence. My neighbor and I shored up the southeast section with new metal posts. That's him hiding on the right. We also braced a wooden post on the northwest side that was completely rotted out at the base. It was hard work, but well worth it. It only cost about $200 for the metal posts, concrete, and miscellaneous items to put up 4 new posts (with extra posts and concrete to spare).
Next up: paint the posts so that they blend in better with the fence. I may skip this step, because I plan on growing vines all along the fence, which will obscure the posts anyway.
You can see that the fence line is sort of wavy. What can I say? The original owners must have been drunk when they laid it out. I didn't want to spend the money on tearing everything down and redoing it. I'm just happy that the fence is no longer on the verge of falling over.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Fixed My Fence
While playing with my new photography toys, I dragged myself outside to make some critical fixes to my collapsing fence. My neighbor and I shored up the southeast section with new metal posts. That's him hiding on the right. We also braced a wooden post on the northwest side that was completely rotted out at the base. It was hard work, but well worth it. It only cost about $200 for the metal posts, concrete, and miscellaneous items to put up 4 new posts (with extra posts and concrete to spare).
Next up: paint the posts so that they blend in better with the fence. I may skip this step, because I plan on growing vines all along the fence, which will obscure the posts anyway.
You can see that the fence line is sort of wavy. What can I say? The original owners must have been drunk when they laid it out. I didn't want to spend the money on tearing everything down and redoing it. I'm just happy that the fence is no longer on the verge of falling over.
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