Build It Yourself Swimming Pool Fence: Installing Your Posts

Build It Yourself Swimming Pool Fence: Installing Your Posts

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As if having a pool put isn't expensive enough but then you have to pay to have a fence put around it, and that also costs money. This is why if you are like so many homeowners today, you're thinking of saving money by doing the fence installation yourself. The big challenge you face though, is having your finished work come out looking like a professional job.

So then to keep it nice and simple and make it a heck of a lot easier on yourself you would be well advised to go with a standard cedar slat fence. The type that's sheathed with 1 x 6 boards that have a dog eared top. In fact to better familiarize yourself with this style of fencing, just hop in your car and take a drive around your neighbourhood. It's one of the more common styles of fencing. Sometimes it's painted but most of the time not.

Make it even easier on yourself by not even thinking about the finished fence. That all goes together after you've finished installing the main frame, so let's just focus on that. Get a nice solid frame built, and the rest of the fence will go on real nicely. So the first thing you want to make a point of doing, is buying four-by-four post stock that's longer than you think you need, to insure that you don't come up short. Buy ten footers, and you can lop any excess off.

Then you need to make sure that you don't build your fence over your property line, or you can end up having to tear the whole thing down at some future date. It happens more often than you might think. Now there may be boundary markers that you can go by but keep in mind that someone may have moved them at some point. It happens. So to play it safe and make a trip to your county land records office to check things out before you start in.

Then after you've determined where your fence is going to be built, pound some good long sturdy stakes in. one at each corner. Then after that has been done run thick construction grade string between them to "line out" your actual fence. Pull the string tight, and tie it off. Then after that has been done, use a tape measure to mark off every 8 feet on your string. These marks are where your posts will be set.

Simply drive a small stake into the ground directly below each mark on your string, and you are ready to dig your post holes. Make sure you dig them deep enough. About 2 feet and also make sure to add plenty of cement too. Then "level up straight" and brace off your posts. Give them a good day to "set" in place. After that is done, you can then begin framing in between them with your 2 x 4s.

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Learn more about pool pumps. Stop by Anne Hetris's site where you can find out all about swimming pools.



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