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Fence madness!
May 12th, 2013 09:45 amI spent last weekend and yesterday helping my neighbor with our fence.
I haven't been talking about it much here because the project is her baby, which means she gets to angst about it and I just offer occasional opinions and reassurance and build things. It's been fantastic -- visible progress, discovering I work quite well with my neighbor, a bit of learn-as-I-go that helped boost my confidence for my own upcoming projects, too.
The only downside is that the part of the fence we're replacing was the best part of my ramshackle fence. As in, "Not currently falling over." My property is on the middle of the block, and the lots are platted a bit oddly in this neighborhood, so I share fence line with six different people -- and Michelle is the only one* eager to fix up her place and invest time and money.
ANYWAY! Here an old picture of my south fence line, taken not long after I bought the house:
We replaced everything from that patch of ivy to the left.
And here's some of the (still unfinished) new bit (click for bigger image):
And the new bits in the front:
The low section of cedar in the front will have 16" of hogwire at the top, to help marry the rear cedar section with the front wire section.
Michelle used to work in construction, and one of her construction friends helped out with setting some of the posts last Saturday. She and I finished the rest Sunday, and went to town yesterday. Lots of fun!
*Okay, there's one neighbor whom I've never talked to, but our shared fence is only about six feet. Otherwise we've got Michelle and I's other joint neighbor, who's an absentee slum lord who doesn't answer his phone; George in back, who's totally sweet and willing to work but has no money and is living in a house owned by his mom, who doesn't want to pay anything; and the asshole Narsty Neighbor to the north. Slumlord and Narsty's fence bits actually ARE falling down. I've got Slumlord's braced with 4 by 4.
I haven't been talking about it much here because the project is her baby, which means she gets to angst about it and I just offer occasional opinions and reassurance and build things. It's been fantastic -- visible progress, discovering I work quite well with my neighbor, a bit of learn-as-I-go that helped boost my confidence for my own upcoming projects, too.
The only downside is that the part of the fence we're replacing was the best part of my ramshackle fence. As in, "Not currently falling over." My property is on the middle of the block, and the lots are platted a bit oddly in this neighborhood, so I share fence line with six different people -- and Michelle is the only one* eager to fix up her place and invest time and money.
ANYWAY! Here an old picture of my south fence line, taken not long after I bought the house:
We replaced everything from that patch of ivy to the left.
And here's some of the (still unfinished) new bit (click for bigger image):
And the new bits in the front:
The low section of cedar in the front will have 16" of hogwire at the top, to help marry the rear cedar section with the front wire section.
Michelle used to work in construction, and one of her construction friends helped out with setting some of the posts last Saturday. She and I finished the rest Sunday, and went to town yesterday. Lots of fun!
*Okay, there's one neighbor whom I've never talked to, but our shared fence is only about six feet. Otherwise we've got Michelle and I's other joint neighbor, who's an absentee slum lord who doesn't answer his phone; George in back, who's totally sweet and willing to work but has no money and is living in a house owned by his mom, who doesn't want to pay anything; and the asshole Narsty Neighbor to the north. Slumlord and Narsty's fence bits actually ARE falling down. I've got Slumlord's braced with 4 by 4.
