Borr 6,006 Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Well neighbours fence on my boundary has rotted out , they're housing association and the association decided it would be fine to replace a 6' feather edge with 4/5' chainlink , to both of our horrors. It's an absolute abortion of a job they've done , concrete posts at all differing heights and distance gaps underneath and both of us have reactive or dog aggressive dogs . So I've offered to supply and fit 22m of feather board which I plan to do over Christmas , hopefully before . I'm gonna masonry screw some timber uprights to the concrete posts they've thrown in the ground, and as it's quite steep drop on garden I'm going to have to mess about with mitres on the gravel boards and rails , I'm not sure yet weather to screw or nail the feather edge as I've heard different opinions. I've been told not to bother with a nail gun . But possibly a screw gun but my mate used a magnetic screw bit ? Any of the fencing guys input would be appreciated. I've got top rail and gravel boards which I'll probably screw on not sure about top rail either . Gonna watch a few YouTube vids , should keep me busy... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Borr 6,006 Posted December 21 Author Report Share Posted December 21 Uprights on impressed with the masonry screw solid and if I cut the rails enough and don't pull the posts about should get stronger as I go... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 45,402 Posted December 21 Report Share Posted December 21 I would personally screw on the rails and gravel boards,then use 40/50 mm ring shank nails and a hammer for the boards Joe.. start from the bottom of the garden and work up when fixing the feather edge...level your first board,always fixing to the top rail,then knock up a spacer block/jig to get the correct overlap on each board, normally 3 boards per foot,chuck a level on and double check every metre or so 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Borr 6,006 Posted December 22 Author Report Share Posted December 22 (edited) Worst of it done , I may start the 8m below this , or I may call it for now see how we go Edited Monday at 07:36 by Borr 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Borr 6,006 Posted 5 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 5 hours ago Started the bottom 8m today using housing association posts they left and postcrete , recip made short work of existing fence, bit of a ball ache trying to hold them somewhere near stringline and pour postcrete in but it's still better than what they did. Time for a beer and burn up.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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