Building A Wooden Picket Fence

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Building a wooden picket fence.

Redwood and cedar are the best wood species for fences and fence gates because they resist rot and moisture damage but if you re going to paint the gate pine and fir are also suitable because the paint will protect them. Do not worry about properly spacing these pickets. This video shows you h. How to build a picket fence.

If you re building a traditional picket fence you can use pre made picket fence panels or you can attach pickets to horizontal rails. You ll go back and cut the tops off level later set the posts plumb and square to the line of your fence and set the base in concrete. If yours is a picket fence you ll want to use pickets and you can make these yourself from 3 4 inch lumber which you may have to do if you can t find matching pickets at the lumber yard. Check local codes and homeowner s association guidelines that might govern fence style size.

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Layout enough pickets at each bay standing the pickets up against the fence. Installing a shadowbox wood fence. Run a string line from. At each temporary picket place a six penny nail half way into the top.

At each change in grade temporarily nail one picket.