Re: Thompson\'s Water Seal
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Yes, galvanized steel posts set in concrete. Rick, this is, to me, a bit of an unusual situation and not a particularly good one, in my opinion, but I don't guess there's a problem. My property directly adjoins the neighbor's behind me; no alley or anything like that. However, the electric company has a 10' easement; 5' of mine, 5' of the neighbor's, and the power poles are set in that easement. In this particular case, the power pole is about 1' from the fence inside my yard; right in the northwest corner. Another odd thing is that the power line to his house comes down that pole, in conduit, then underground to his house, while everything else I can see in the neighborhood, on both sides, is overhead lines to the houses.
Last Fall, right after we bought the place, that neighbor told me he planned to replace the fence in the Spring. I assumed it would be a joint deal and I'd pay half of it, but we never saw each other again until recently when I noticed him and a friend at the corner of the yard and they had already replaced the fence along the south side of his property and were about to start replacing that between us. He had already bought the ready made panels from Lowe's, new galvanized lag bolts to attach the brackets on the steel posts to the wood rails, etc. He obviously considers the fence to be his, both the old and the new have the "smooth" side on his side, and I think he's probably right. From the survey I got when I bought the place, it appears that the fence is a couple of inches over onto his property.
So I helped replace the fence between us, as well as the one on the north side of his place. I asked what I was going to owe for my part and he said, "Nothing". So it was his idea to use the honey gold finish, so I bought 5 gallons of it, used a little less than two on my side of the fence, then bought 10 more gallons to give to him that will hopefully do the rest of it.
Of course we need a fence between us because we have one Chihuahua and he has two huge Great Danes. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
In a previous home, I had a fence built of western red cedar with wood posts and will never do that again. The steel posts are so much better and longer lasting. The only problem here has been that the original fence builder did not space his posts properly; many of them are 96", which is fine, but some have been as little as 71" and a couple nearly 10' so we've set a couple more posts which looks a bit odd having posts only a couple of feet apart, and of course we had to cut the panels to fit.
