Good Fences...
June 17, 2008 11:03 PM Filed in: Personal
We've begun to do some repairs around the house.
First up, we began with the privacy fence. When
we bought the house about eight years ago, one of
the first things we did was to redwood stain the
privacy fence. Apparently, the lady who owned the
house before us didn't think that a privacy fence
needed to be stained to maintain it. Well, here's
a newsflash for her and anyone else out there. If
it is wood, you better stain it to protect it.
Well, we did, and that helped a lot, but it had
already suffered a lot of weathering, along with
many vines and trees and whatnot that had grown
up behind it, it was not in the best shape. But
after some basic work on it, it shaped up
alright. The only thing that we didn't do that we
should have done in hind sight was to take it
down completely and stain the back side of it.
Hence the repairs we started today.
One of the posts had completely rotted at the bottom and so we removed that post and put it in a new one. Somehow we managed to remove the piece that was left when the top part broke off and kept the basic hole intact. That really helped to reseat the new freshly stained and pre-treated 4x4 post. We had two 8 foot panels to replace. There will be more in the near future, but we are starting with the two worst cases. Well, after all of those weathered years, the fence has sagged some, and has moved some, so fitting the new panels proved to be more of a chore than we had originally anticipated. But perserverence paid off, and the new panels are now in place.
All that we have left to do is to restain the rest of the fence. We'll get that done during the rest of this week. After that, we have some ew gutters to install around the back porch. We also need to do some repair work to the back porch as a result of not having gutters, and then we'll be on to some work inside. It's going to be one busy summer.
One of the posts had completely rotted at the bottom and so we removed that post and put it in a new one. Somehow we managed to remove the piece that was left when the top part broke off and kept the basic hole intact. That really helped to reseat the new freshly stained and pre-treated 4x4 post. We had two 8 foot panels to replace. There will be more in the near future, but we are starting with the two worst cases. Well, after all of those weathered years, the fence has sagged some, and has moved some, so fitting the new panels proved to be more of a chore than we had originally anticipated. But perserverence paid off, and the new panels are now in place.
All that we have left to do is to restain the rest of the fence. We'll get that done during the rest of this week. After that, we have some ew gutters to install around the back porch. We also need to do some repair work to the back porch as a result of not having gutters, and then we'll be on to some work inside. It's going to be one busy summer.