Anyone know how to build a wood privacy fence?

[Mike Hawk]

Hey im wanting to build a wood privacy at my house but never done one. Can someone that has built one before help me to understand what i will need, type of wood, what sizes/lenghts of the wood panels etc etc. I will just need to put in one gate on one side of the house as well. I assume i can get all the crap at lowes right?

Or should i just pay some pros to do it or do they charge too much, i dont even know how much they cost.

[jaslivers]

lowes sells 6 by 8 panels for easy install or you can buy the individual boards in cedar or pressure treated pine, if you go that route use 2x4s for the runners and used 3( helps to keep boards strait as the wood ages) the bad thing about the panels is the boards they use for them are cut different sizes than the individuals so if you start with panels you gotta go the whole way with them

[86 IROC-Z]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

[jaslivers]

that works to

[jaslivers]

oh ya 4x4x8 for the posts, two foot holes and a 80 pound bag of crete per hole

[blackSS01]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

[Mr. Luos]

With screws.

And miracle whip.

[Nhra Firebird]

With screws.

And miracle whip.

don't use miracle whip light or the wind might blow the fence over

[0rion]

miracle whip light sucks.......





pay someone to build your fence and then sit and drink beer watching them build it....you'll be glad you did.

[Speedy_Gonzales]

Paint the fence Red to match your Redtop Redneck battery appearance mod that you will be doing in the future. Park your car by the red fence with your hood open and take pics. Enter Aug COTM contest and you will win hands down

[310stanger]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

Dude, I'm in fuckin tears right now lol I sware i've spit out more beer reading posts you make like this that its probably amounted to a 30 pack. I gotta drink like PBR when I read Iroc posts.

Thats exactly how a fence gets built by a guy that thinks hes handy but really doesnt know what hes doing lol

He could run around his yard naked and his neighboors will take care of said fence for him

[Speedy_Gonzales]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

[0rion]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

epic it wouldn't be near as funny if it weren't true

[310stanger]

epic it wouldn't be near as funny if it weren't true

The detail and truth to his posts when he makes a joke post like that. incredible.

[Z28Thunder]

Googled your question...


http://www.doityourself.com/stry/h2woodfence

http://www.ufpi.com/literature/wfinstall-132.pdf

http://www.hooverfence.com/manual/content.htm

[Y2KPewterSS]

1. Go to LS1.com to get advice about building fences
2. Go to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to purchase fence building supplies.
3. Dig holes of different sizes and depths in a jagged line around where you want the fence.
4. Hit your gas main.
5. Call 911.
6. Wait 3 hours for gas company to show up while the firefighters laugh at you.
7. Continue what looks like an erratic search for buried treasure.
8. Return to Lowes/Home depot/Ace Hardware etc to get supplies/materials/tools you forgot about.
9. Start erecting fence support posts, deciding that concrete is for noobs.
10. See step 8.
11. You seem to have lost the dirt you took out of the holes to fill back in around the fence posts. Decide, to your wifes dismay, to start digging a hole in the middle of your yard to get the extra dirt needed. This will help you get a head start on that in-ground pool project you've always wanted to do, which will be covered in a future post.
12. See step 8.
13. Start connecting the vertical main posts with horizontal support beams. For some reason, none of these will be the same length.
14. See step 8.
15. Start attaching the planks to finish off your fence. When this has been completed all the way around, you are finished!
16. Get your wife so she can praise your hard work.
17. After seeing your fence, she starts crying and banishes you to the couch.
18. A drunk driver crashes through a section of your fence.
19. You start drinking yourself.
20. See step 8.
21. Get another beer.
22. You give up repairing and nail a bright blue tarp to the affected area of the fence.
23. See step 21.
24. Your neighbors report your "Fence" to the Home Owners Association, and you get a fine and orders to remove what they call "A severe eye-sore to the community".
25. See step 21.
26. Become angry and destroy your fence with a chain saw.
27. See step 21.
28. Pay an exorbant amount of money to get "Professionals" to build you a new fence.
29. Sit in back yard near new fence, complaining that your fence was much better, while completing step 21 a few more times.
30. Log back on to LS1.com and make a thread complaining about how LS1.com sucks for fence building advice.
31. Sarge makes fun of you.
32. You cry yourself to sleep, on the couch.

[Z28Thunder]

About as funny as building your fence....

[Tide]

It's not hard, but it's not something that can be explained on an internet forum.

Two things I would recommend to obtain/rent without fail:
Pneumatic air gun
An auger similar to this one



They will save you many, many man hours and your back.

[2002 WS6 KILLS]

It's not hard, but it's not something that can be explained on an internet forum.

Two things I would recommend to obtain/rent without fail:
Pneumatic air gun
An auger similar to this one



They will save you many, many man hours and your back.

While you're at it, maybe drill for oil in your backyard with the auger!!