On the fence on whether to buy this house
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Comments (6)Hi, i saw your post when I was searching for the double loop fence in my area. The link below is to a company in WA. Best of Luck Erin Here is a link that might be useful: heico wire group This post was edited by 3irish17 on Tue, Feb 26, 13 at 16:55...See MoreWhere to buy fencing material in Massachusetts
Comments (5)Lowes sells cedar to make a cedar fence. If you want to buy a cedar fence that's already made, and don't mind paying up, go to http://www.walpolewoodworkers.com/ There's also another one in Mass. call Brattelboro or Battleboro, something like that. Also big $$$ Here's a fence that I made from cedar lumber purchased at Lowes. It cost me about 3K to make + less than 3K to install. Walpole quoted over 30K for similar, but a little better. http://users.tellurian.net/tom/fence/index.htm Good Luck!...See MoreLowe's/Home Depot and Vinyl Fencing
Comments (6)The fencing from HD and Lowes is thinner than what many fence companies use (but not all). Recently was looking at some HD/Lowes fencing and you really do have to call the manufacturer to find out thickness, AND you have to ask the same questions of the fence companies. For example, one HD/Lowes style of 6' privacy fencing I was looking at (manufactured in the USA by Barrette) had 0.035" thick pickets, 0.065" rails and 0.135" thick posts, while the fence companies vinyl had 0.050" pickets, 0.080" rails and 0.150" thick posts. So as you can see there is a definite material difference. However just having thinner material doesn't mean HD/Lowes fence product isn't any good, just that it probably won't be as strong. But the real important question is how strong do you need, and would 0.035" pickets be strong enough? Answers to questions like this seem scarce on the internet, so all you find are fence companies saying they use thicker material that will be stronger, but again, maybe I don't care if what HD/Lowes has is already good enough, especially given the cost savings. Obviously we don't want pickets bowing and blowing off the rails b/c of a 30 mph wind gust, so they do need some strength. From what I've found reading reviews on HD/Lowes, is their fencing seems to hold up just fine, in fact one reviewer said their fence held up perfectly against hurricane Sandy this last year, and another reviewer in Arizona (where they have very high winds) also has had no issue with pickets blowing off in the wind. The other issue about vinyl falling apart after 5 or 10 years did used to be true, based on my internet searches, but apparently that was vinyl fencing made without UV inhibitors (TiO2) and impact modifiers, so it got brittle, flaked, turned yellow, fell down when hit by a weed whacker, etc, but no one (except maybe imported stuff) uses that anymore. The other big thing is to avoid any fencing that requires brackets to hold it together, make sure you buy the kind with holes in the posts for the rails, and make sure you get tongue and groove pickets with u-channels (some styles at HD/Lowes have both, but others don't, so review their listings very carefully). I guess my conclusion would be if you buy the right type of fence from HD/Lowes, you will probably do just fine and save quite a bit of money (though you don't want to have them do the install b/c they'll nail you on that)!...See MoreFence Options for connecting house to detached garage?
Comments (2)Hi Patricia, the house is solid brick. The rest of the fence is wood and will be replaced with a new wood fence. I’ll get a couple more pics up. Thanks...See More- 7 years ago
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