Back yard, Orchard Hill Road ·
A cedar privacy run, stepped down a hillside
An old wire fence on a slope that fell eleven feet from the house to the orchard. Out it came, and in went a cedar run that steps down bay by bay, level at every board.
- What we did
- Old wire fence out, 32 posts in concrete, 6 ft cedar board-on-board stepped down the slope, one walk gate
- Run
- 248 ft
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $12,800 all in
The yard falls eleven feet from the deck to the orchard at the bottom, and the old wire fence simply followed the ground. The owners wanted privacy from the lane without a fence that looked like it was sliding downhill.
Day one we pulled the wire, found all four pins and pulled the string. Day two was thirty-two holes, three feet deep, through clay and a layer of river stone. Day three the posts went in, plumbed both ways, and the rails went on level with each bay a step lower than the last. On day four the boards and the cap rail went on, the walk gate was hung, and the hillside had a fence that reads straight from the lane.
Cut listJob 261009
- Run
- 248 ft, 4 corners
- Height
- 6 ft, stepped every bay
- Style
- Board-on-board, cap rail
- Posts
- 32 × 4×4 cedar, 8 ft bays
- Post depth
- 36 in, belled
- Concrete
- 64 bags, 80 lb
- Boards
- 1,120 × 1×6 cedar
- Gate
- One 4 ft walk gate