Garden Fence Ideas for Your Home
There are many reasons to have a garden fence, including keeping deer and rabbits off your nicely manicured lawn and offering protection against the wind. Then again, even when you do not have to worry about animals, fences can provide a beautiful border around your garden. Nevertheless, in spite of the various advantages, many people will hold off building a decorative garden fence since they find the task a little overwhelming although it does not have to be that way.
Premade fence kits are one way to go since everything that you need for building a garden fence that is both attractive and practical is included in the ‘box’. Several are so ingeniously designed that all you need to do is click together the parts and you are finished. The sections included enable you to erect either rectangular or square fencing. Some include modified braces that let you to make an octagon or semi-circle.
The majority are slightly less simple, but still require only minimal work from you. The panels already have the slats fixed to the support rails or cross members, as they are known. A few minutes is all that is required to attach them to the corner posts. That simply entails putting in a number of screws with a power screwdriver or by hand if you prefer and the task is done and dusted.
Setting garden fence posts does not have to be a major job, either. Indeed, if you are only erecting a small garden fence, you may not need to sink posts at all. The posts will furnish corner support for the slat sections, but the whole thing can just sit on the ground without excavating any post holes.
For extra support, it is possible to get metal post support stakes that take much of the effort out of the process. They consist of a twelve to eighteen inch steel spike with a square metal cup welded on top. The stake is merely pounded into the ground with a suitable heavy hammer.
You can either have the square cup part projecting above the surface or sink it down so that it is level with the ground. They are typically finished in attractive colors or you can paint them to match your overall garden design. Mounting the fence post is simplicity itself since all you need to do is slide the post base into the cup and tighten up the integrated nut and bolt which results in the cup clamping the post firmly.
Garden fences set up in this way can support significant weight as well as being able to stand up to high winds and driving rain.
If you favor trellis instead of slatted panels, you are in luck as they are readily available and just as simple to install. They are the perfect option for climbing plants, ivy and others that will wind their way in and around the lattice. Trellis panels also offer a way to support tall growing plants near to the boundary. Just use a bit of tie-wrap and tall tulips will stand up well to wind.
If you have an issue with ground squirrels or moles tunnelling under your garden, you can sink the fencing into the ground by about a foot or so. That can be as simple as just digging a trench and planning to have your slats a little taller than you originally figured. Alternatively, a layer of chicken wire under the ground surface can also offer an effectual barrier.
Now you know that erecting garden fencing is not as terrible as you first thought, it is time to give your property that finished look.
