Privacy Screen
To make six privacy screens, I used three 4'x8' lattice panels, intending to cut each panel in half lengthwise. Wanting to make the panels as high as possible, I cut the lattice to 23 inches wide by about 93½ inches long. Without doing much ... [... more]
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Installing A Fence From Pre-Made Sections
I found that I could push the fence posts into a plumb position, but they would not stay there by themselves. Since I did not have a helper most of the time, I simply let the posts lean as I back-filled the holes. I would add 4 to 6 inches of ... [... more]
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Pre-Assembling Fence Sections
To build a dog kennel, we initially bought materials for 64 feet of fence. I've manually laid out many sections of fence before, but the thought of marking and squaring each picket (there were 96 of them) made me cringe. I could have made a ... [... more]
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Cutting Simple Dog-Eared Fence Pickets
If there's one thing I've learned from my education and experience as an engineer, it's that some work "creates value" and some work does not. In a fence project, like many carpentry projects, value is created by cutting materials and fastening ... [... more]
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Building Custom Lattice Panels
A bundle of 10 pieces of this lath cost $4.55, so for my little section of lattice the cost works out to just over a dollar per square foot. Given that a sheet of high-privacy lattice costs less than 12 bucks, if I needed to build a section of ... [... more]
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Moving A Garden Shed
When my friend asked the city to let him subdivide this property, the Building Department wanted him to correct a problem. It seems that years before somebody had put in a driveway illegally. The house is on a busy street and the city wants to ... [... more]
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Building A Soil Sifter
Deck screws would work too, but I would recommend pre-drilling the holes to prevent splitting this narrow strip of wood. In fact, using screws would be smarter, in case the hardware cloth gets ripped and needs to be replaced someday. But I wasn't ... [... more]
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