Installing a yard fence provides security and privacy.
A wooden privacy fence provides security and privacy for your yard at a reasonable cost. The most common and simplest to construct is the stockade fence, built with prefab panels. Common styles of stockade feature 4- and 6-inch-wide pickets with dog ear or gothic tops. The most common materials are pine, treated pine and cedar. Treated 4-by-4s are typically the post of choice as the panels can be mounted directly to the post face without the use of any special hardware.
Instructions
1. Mark the line of your fence by tying a piece of mason's twine between two wooden stakes. Drive one stake in at each corner of your run with a hammer. Use a post hole digger to dig post holes, 10 to 12 inches across and 24 inches deep, every 8 feet along this line and place one 8-foot-long, treated 4-by-4 post and ½ bag of concrete mix in each hole.
2. Stand the first post at the right end of the line upright. Add water and mix the concrete in the hole with a piece of scrap lumber. Use a level to check the post front to back and side to side. Adjust the post as needed to center the bubble in the level's indicator. Pack the remainder of the hole with dirt to hold the post in place as the concrete hardens.
3. Stand the first panel up and line up the right edge of the panel with the right side of the leveled post. Attach the panel to the post by driving two 3-inch treated deck screws through the face of the panel and each horizontal rail into the face of the post. Drive the screws in with a cordless drill until the heads are flush with the face of the panel. Avoid countersinking to prevent water building up on the screw heads.
4. Stand the second post in the line upright and add water to the hole. Mix the concrete. Line up the unattached end of the first panel with the center of the second post and attach as for the first post. Use the level to check the second post for level front to back and adjust as needed to center the bubble in the indicator. Pack the hole with dirt.
5. Attach the second panel butted up to the first panel. Attach with treated deck screws as before. Continue adding panels and leveling posts to the end of the privacy fence.
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