Diy lattice fence3/5/2023 ![]() 2x4x12 pressure treated wood for gate frame.3 x 2x4x8 pressure treated wood with a groove (to make a frame for the lattice to sit in).For your records, here’s the list of everything we bought: We went the cheater route and picked up a ready-made chainlink gate piece that was 40-something” x 60″ with a plan to lay it on its side and tie it on to the existing fence and a new fence post. The young lads in the fencing aisle that day told me I could buy smaller rolls of fencing from TSC, but I wasn’t in the mood to truck over there to maybe find the right thing, plus I’m fairly certainly a “smaller roll” was something like 25ft, which was still overkill. We found out that chainlink fencing only comes in 50ft rolls and we only needed 5ft. We ran into a few hiccups at Home Depot about the best things to buy for our situation. We were buying stuff for both the driveway fence and the side yard fence, which would just be a section of chainlink tied into the existing fence over there. I made a master list of things to buy on Sunday morning, and we borrowed a van from my mom to transport all our gear. With a little help from Dan’s dad, we created a plan that mapped out exactly what to do, and exactly what bits and pieces we need. ![]() I wrote all the details down and we went home to sketch out a plan. The nice man at Home Depot walked us through the whole thing, which included drilling holes in the concrete for the fence post supports (specially designed to go on concrete), using lag bolts to secure them to the concrete, then fence posts and away you go! We briefly considered buying a ready-made gate (the only one we found was $80), but for $30 plus the cost of wood we could buy a gate kit and create our own. Our next step was a preliminary trip to Home Depot where we sourced out all of our materials and asked for some help from the closest orange apron we could find. ![]() A lattice fence came out on top in terms of a style that appealed to us as well as something that wouldn’t tip over from the weight. We began our planning by paying attention to fences we liked on our daily dog walks in the neighbourhood, and by scouring the internets (mostly Pinterest) for inspiration. Our project meant drilling into concrete no matter which way we looked at it, so we knew we had to choose a lighter fence style. You may have noticed that our driveway is a solid concrete slab, which poses some difficulty for your traditional dig-a-fence-post style fence. We started by thinking of the kind of fence style we wanted. Our yard is 3/4 fenced (courtesy of our three neighbours with properties that sit adjacent to our yard, who already had their own fences) and all we needed was a 10′ stretch between the house and the driveway retaining wall fence and a 5.5′ stretch between the side of the house and the neighbour’s existing chainlink fence. It began innocently enough with an idea to close in the backyard for Oscar the dog, so he couldn’t run free and escape. In a few short days we’ve gone from gung-ho DIYers to happily paying someone else to do the dirty work, readers. ![]()
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