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All of The Boy's exits now go into the fenced in area of our property!
Secondary feature: The neighbor's trash pile will stay on their side of the property line.
Tertiary feature: It's astounding how much this cuts the light bounce from the other house onto our wall. This might be worth a couple of degrees come summer.
One thing I am baffled by: Round fence posts are $24. Pressure treated 4x4's are $9. The square posts are better for attaching the panels, yet are cheaper.
Update: We're leaving the chain link between the back yards so that we may look through the neighbor's yard and see Harvey's parent's yard.
My hypothesis is processing costs. You can turn out 4x4 with a bench saw (and a power planer/thicknesser if you want planed squared edges). But the round fenceposts have to be turned: I just bought a shedload of round (the climate in the UK eventually rots through the bases of even treated fenceposts), and they bear machining marks along the length consistent with having been processed on some sort of lathe). That said, the price differential on this side of the pond is not quite so stark, so I'm open to the idea of some other contributing factors.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the DUR moment. Of course they take more processing and waste more raw material.
DeleteObvious now that someone points it out. Now I'm worried that I couldn't see it on my own.
"Thank you for the DUR moment." I very much appreciate your giving me the opportunity to sit on the other side of the equation. It has the charm of novelty [grin].
DeleteThey probably have to turn the round posts on some kind of giant lathe to make them uniform in diameter. That's probably more expensive labor wise than cuttng a square post. Probably they cut square posts and then turn them to make the round ones so it is 100% additional labor.
ReplyDeleteThe panels you used and the square posts look pretty much the same as what I used on our yard. The pre-made panels really don't cost any more than the components to make them and it saves a huge amount of labor assembling them plus they are nice and uniform looking. One of my neighbors who assembled their fence from individual 2x4s and slats they don't look nearly so nice, especially on the back side. Their 2x4s aren't all nice and straight and pefect looking.
-swj