Wood privacy fences

Most of what we build is cedar privacy fence: a back yard closed in so the dog stays home and the neighbours’ windows go away. Each one starts with the line, because a fence is only as straight as the string it was set to. We find the property pins, call 811 to have the buried lines marked, and pull a string tight from corner to corner before a hole is dug.

Then the posts: three feet down, belled at the foot, plumbed both ways and set in concrete, the corners and the gate posts first. The rails go on level, the boards go on to the pattern you picked, and a cap rail ties the top together. You get a written price before we dig, and we come back to stain it once the wood has dried out.