Construction of a strong and reliable fence in the country is not a fad, but a necessity, the harsh prose of life. After all, there are a lot of people who want to harvest where it was not planted. A high quality fence will protect our property from damage and theft, and psychologically feel protected when the area is fenced. But that’s what the fence is better to build and how to build it? Let’s try to understand.
What fence is better to build?
There are many ways to build a fence with their own hands, and even about the abundance of different building materials and can not speak! Wood (boards, picket fence), various metal grids and sheets, brick — just do not count.
You can build a fence with your own hands from the grid netting, unless, of course, you are not concerned about other people’s indiscreet views — because such a fence does not hide from passers-by what is happening in your country. Some put up around my property almost eternal fence – stone, but the stone made wall of large country houses.
Let’s stop at the most simple and elegant solution: build a solid wooden fence with your own hands. It is easy to build it, the costs are minimal, it is simple to operate, requires a minimum of repair and upgrade costs, and looks very attractive. So let’s go.
Construction of a wooden fence with their hands
Build a simple fence with their hands from the boards section 15 x 2.5 cm, length 2 m. the length of the boards you can choose any, depending on the height of the fence you want to build. We will move on the submitted photos, to which I will give a brief but succinct description.
Stage 1
Prepare a few wooden pegs with a length of 60 cm. Then, guided by the plan of your site, hammer them around the perimeter of the territory at a distance of 2 m from each other.
Step 2
Decide on the height of the fence. It should not be particularly high, so as not to obscure the nearby landing, and not too low, not to represent your country life for everyone to see. Usually, the height of wooden fences varies from 1.5 to 2.5 m. Cut (or order) the Board of the desired length, process them on the flatbed machine (you can use a conventional electric drill with a flat head). And if you want to make a semicircular or triangular profile, trim the boards, fixing them on the workbench. You can, of course, buy ready-made boards for the construction of the fence with their own hands, but they are much more expensive than untreated edged board.
Step 3
Now remove the pegs one at a time, and the place of the remaining holes to drill wells to a depth of at least 50 cm under the supports for the fence. For these purposes, you can use an electric drill or hand drill.
Step 4
Now you need to dig pre-prepared supports into the ground. It can be bars section 50 x 50 mm or 75 x 75 mm. Beams set vertically, fill the hole with earth and tamp it tightly. For strength, you can cement or concrete supports. After all, we want our wooden fence with his hands served long enough, so — should pay close attention to the strength of its supports.
Step 5
On top of each bar hammer on a nail and pull all the bars together tightly stretched rope around the perimeter. This must be done in order to align the fence height.
Step 6
Now screws or nails, attach to the bars of a Board cross-section 10 x 2.5 cm Board placed on equal distance from each other, and 20-30 cm above the soil level. Nails or screws for fastening design pick up that they ran the Board through and spoke from the back of the beam by 2-3 cm Protruding parts of the nails (or screws) should be carefully and gently bend.
Step 7
Nail or put on screws pre-prepared boards for a wooden fence. You can make a fence, nailing boards butt, you can leave a small distance between them (from 1 to 5 cm), and you can use a thin rail instead of boards with a cross section of 2 x 5 cm and make a palisade – as you want.
Step 8
So, your wooden fence is ready! Now it remains to paint it.
So we finished the construction of a wooden fence with their hands.