Fence project.....your opinion?

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Did you paint the fence that color or did he? )</font>

We did /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. G

 

[GerardC]

<font color="blue"> ...if you "racked" it.... </font>

Don't know exactly what you mean? G

 

[Freds]

Well "racking", and that's the word my friend uses who told me, is to attach the one end of your fence panel to the post and then pull the other end down to meet the ground contour. I guess it's called racking because that is a word associated with being out of square.

Excuse my bad stain job. Maybe you could come over and paint mine... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[GerardC]

Got it.
But in our situation, we are lower and get a lot of water run off. A drain pipe and landscaping are still to be done plus our side looks really nice. Still have some trimming to do but all-in-all very presentable on our side. See attachment. G

 

[Freds]

I think what was throwing me in the other pictures was the uneven looking topline and the section you added for additional height. That looks pretty good.

Did you reuse some older fencing or start the project a while ago and that is why the bottom sections are weathered? I'm wondering why you had the extra length on your posts for the newer sections.
I wish I had left the extra length on my posts on some other fencing I have so I could add a little more height. I lopped them all off after the fence was installed.

 

[GerardC]

The original fence was put up last year. So yes, it is a resumed project and the bottom is weathered. We may paint or stain our side but aren't sure yet. What you see is only half the total length of the fence on that side of the property. We'll pluck away with the continuation little by little. G

 

[wroughtn_harv]

What I didn't understand is why he didn't put the good side of the fence (finished) towards himself. Let the neighbor look at the posts and framing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

In one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Dallas I had agreed to do a fence. There was a space of time between me getting to it and when the tree guys had cleared the area for me.

At that time one of the richer guys in Dallas evidently called his fence guy to put up a fence. He didn't call the my customer to see what was up. He called a "professional". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

They sent out a crew. It was evidently a piece work crew and so they put the posts in two feet on my customer's property. I had a discussion with the owner's "people". The posts were moved.

The fence hopped up and down, in and out, looked like happy homeowner stuff. And of course my customer got the ugly side. It was an eight foot fence, maximum without a variance.

About six months later we put in a new fence. We raised our grade a foot. Then we put in an eight foot high fence. See photo.

Spite got to me. I had the masons leave the neighbor's side of the columns unfinished. My fence was a foot higher, a foot higher than he could go, and straight like a laser across. This accentuated his shoddy line. The neighbor's place is occasionally used for television shoots. So if you see a show and the camera pans around to show a wood fence with a wall behind it framing shoddy work, it might be my spite, darn my hide. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Freds]

When I used to live in the city I had a 6' privacy fence installed and the finished side HAD to be facing outward, towards the neighbors and street.
That's why vinyl fencing is so nice (and expensive), there is no bad side.

 

[GerardC]

We asked the building inspector about facing and height. We had the option of either side and there is NO height limit. Where we live now, it's only a courtesy as to post placement.
Knowing our intentions of painting the neighbors side, made the decision that much easier too. FLAT painting as opposed to posts and rails etc; and we actually prefer the "post" side of the fence.
There is still some trimming to be done but we wanted to get it up and have some privacy. G

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Personally, I wouldn't want to be associated with that fence of yours on either side. Even if you did paint it to irritate a neighbor, it's still YOUR ugly fence.