How to Build a Wood Fence

so in this video we're going to have a look how to build a privacy fence and how to get from this do this a few days ago I installed these four posts and if you want to start with that make sure you check out my video how to set your post where I'm talking about how to determine your property online and mix your concrete and stuff like that once you have your posts you're always going to start building your fans with these three horizontal boards that we call stringers we have a bottom Stringer metal Stringer and top Stringer 2x6 2x4 and 2x6 pressure treated and the way we're going to install our bottom Stringer basically we're gonna Mark two and a half inches on the bottom of each post mark a line add a screw on the line just to serve as a guide and to hold your Stringer while you're setting your Stringer and adding more three and a half inch screws foreign and the reason why we left two and a half inches Gap under our Stringer is basically here only we have a top soil and once we have a grass grass is one and a half inch thick we're only going to have one inch left space between our Stringer and the ground what you really want to have some kind of space because it's better for drainage you never want to have your Lumber sitting on your ground directly because it's going to be exposed to the water it's going to rot much faster now we're just going to continue marking for the rest of our posts foreign and now we're gonna start adding our top Stringer and to make our fan six feet high we're going to measure from the bottom of our Stringer and Mark 67 and a half right here to the bottom of our upper Stringer make sure you do the same thing for each of your posts Mark 67 and a half make a line add a screw and hang your post and then your fence will nicely follow the slope of your land [Applause] foreign foreign [Applause] now as we have our top and the bottom Stringer installed we're going to install a middle Stringer and all those three together make a great structural support for your fence so you make sure you don't skip a metal one and for the middle one we're going to take the measurement from the top and it's going to be 35 inches from the top of your upper Stringer to the top of your middle Stringer here and we're going to do the same measurement for each post I'm going to add a screw to easier hang my 2x4 and I'm just gonna hang it right here and add a screws [Music] so this is basically a skeleton for our fans we have top and a bottom Stringer and a metal Stringer attached for our 6x6 posts using three and a half inch screws and that's what's going to hold our 1x6 vertical boards using one and a half inch screws when you start installing your vertical planks you can start either on left or right side of your fence anyway you're probably gonna end up with a cut off piece on the end of your panel press your plank tight against the post and make sure your plank is not sticking out over the top like this or over the bottom so keep it fairly even in between the stringers now we're gonna add two screws at the top one in the middle now for the next plank I'm actually going to leave the Gap like that using this 2x4 to space it out because later on I'm gonna come up with another plank to cover it up and this plank will be overlapping these two and that's actually the way how to get a hundred percent privacy fence again two at the top two at the bottom and one in the middle when you're covering the Gap try to make your overlaps even on your left and the right side it's very important here when you're adding a screws that we hit a planks underneath so we're going to add the screws on the sides in this overlapping area here and here so we're gonna have two at the top two at the bottom and two in the middle [Music] foreign foreign so our first run is done so I'm gonna continue covering the gaps and spacing out the planks [Music] foreign thanks by the way the planks that I'm using are 1 by 6 by 6 feet long and the screws are deck screws one and a half inch long and this very last step I'm going to add a cover to the top and the bottom foreign foreign foreign for the covers we use one by six by ten feet long and I cut them to adjust them to the sizing between the posts and what they actually do they actually cover the rough ends of your planks at the top and the bottom in uneven ends of the planks and they actually cover those screw holes from a bunch of screws that we added so this is our final product really a beauty of the fence if you like the video please give us a thumbs up you can leave a comment down below and please subscribe

Channel: The Handy Neighbor

Views: 65,667

Keywords: How to build wood fence, build fence diy, how to build privacy fence, build lumber fence, how to make garden fence, set a fence post, how to make fence gate, build fence gate, house fence, fence, deck, fence gate, wooden fence, fence size, home renovation, home reno project, landscaping

Id: 14h760ntVM8

Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023