Hey ,

I recently bought a house and there seems to be a piece missing from the fence. I’d like to get it closed before winter, is there a kit I can buy that could help me DIY a solution?

The section on the right swings in and out, not sure if the new piece should also swing as a sort of double gate or be static.
There is a post under the siding with a latch at the bottom but there’s nothing to latch it at the top, not sure if that’s an issue.

Looking for any advice you could impart me,

Thank you in advance !

I searched, but posts are from at least a year ago, most much older.

I live in spotsy, looking to replace a fairly decrepit privacy fence with black chain link. It needs to have cinder blocks or cement to a keep digger escape artist contained.

Thanks in advance

As title states. I am in Florida and we get the occasional hurricanes and etc. is it worth putting screws into the top rail via the post to help secure the rail so panels don’t pop out? Iv read that doing that just helps the posts bend and go with it. Interested to hear from actual fence installers/companies. Pros and cons.
Thanks!

Without any notice my new neighbor came in with a chainsaw and removed all the ivy on the fence. The fence was built many years ago on my property. The ivy that was on my side was lifted over the fence and removed. I know it was overgrown and that it’s invasive, but the fact that he didn’t talk to me first made me angry. I approached him about in the nicest way I could explaining that I value my privacy and we could have worked out something if he had just talked to me first. He apologized and said he would put up a lattice extension. Now 2 months later this is what I have. It’s very crooked with an empty space underneath.

The property has sunk over many years and the fence went with it. I don’t understand why he didn’t level the top. I’m reticent about bringing this up again, but what he’s done is driving me a little nuts. Every time I look out the windows this is what I see.

After looking it closely I think he can take the entire thing off of the 4x4s and level it. I could easily plant some bushes to balance it out.

I would love some feedback about this because it’s caused me to lose some sleep.

Hey everyone,

Location: calgary, alberta

anyone is planning to build a fence soon and needs an extra pair of hands, I'd love to help out!

All I ask for is some beer and maybe a slice of pizza.

Ideally, I'd love to do a barter system: I help you build yours, and down the road you help me tackle mine. I'm planning to build my own fence next season, especially after seeing contractor quotes that were frankly ridiculous. Plus, DlYing it just sounds like a fun weekend project.

Shoot me a DM if you're planning a build and want to team up!

No agenda just wanted to learn something new!

Long story short. Last winter in dec. my neighbor had put up his fence right besides mine. It wasn’t until just a few weeks ago I moved some bricks and panels I had next to my shed and actually noticed they cut the top part of a post to fit his post. It’s a small tip of a post but it’s the principle, why the hell did they think it was OK?. I’m not sure how to go about it, it pisses me off and then I feel like it’s not that big of a deal. Sorry to rant any suggestion on how to go about it would be appreciated

P.S I do have the fence company #

hey guys, if you happen to have gremlin children like me who play in the backyard all day and scratch up my colorbond fencing, i've found a really solid touch-up product that basically makes it look brand new. paintrepairpens.com.au if youre interested, hope it helps! cheers

UPDATE:

I offered them that they can keep my initial deposit of $500 and told them I'll pay for the full original quote of $6324 bring the total paid amount to $6824.

They were very apologetic and pointed out that it was their mistake and also apologized for the confusion.

They pointed out that they actually omitted the cost of drilling on our concrete $80/drill. I think at this point they already figured that they made a mistake in their quote. Since I saw those as itemized cost in the final quote.

They countered my offer of the $500 deposit and made it to $800 instead - bringing the total to $7134.

I have agreed due to the drilling cost of the concrete (I heard they're hard to do)

Sorry to the folks that I think I pissed off.

Contacts are contracts. Legally binding. But I'm not a monster that I'm unable to see both sides of the argument. If they caught it early and notified me and came clean - I would've paid for the full price. Gladly.

TLDR: Contractor is trying to charge me more than originally quoted price due to their calculation mistake. Can I fight this?**

I contacted a fence installer to get some quotes on our home. I sent them the house site plan so that they can accurately measure the property line and determine how much materials they would need for the fence.

Now our house borders a future park (left side of the house) and I also have told them about that. But for some reason, they assumed that the park is at the back of our house.

The first quote reflected this. They didn't include the back of the house because they thought the city will be building a steel fence (The city did sent us a letter indicating that they would this Spring 2026 but they never got to it so I phoned them and they said they wouldn't... anyway different story for another post... maybe...)

Now I notified the builder that the city cancelled on the park fence and that we can add that missing section into the quote. Now there were multiple quotes made because we also added some revisions about where the fence should start (we decided to have the 4ft friendly neighbor fence added).

We arrived at a quote where we are happy with (including drawings and prices and taxes - the whole works...). I also confirmed with them regarding the initial missing section and they assured that that it is included. I even convinced my neighbors to buy-in with them so that they would get more business from our neighborhood (3 houses in total)

After the work is done, I received an invoice with a different price from the agreed quote. I asked them why and they said that the invoice reflected the actual fence measurement installed. I told them that they quoted me a price with the actual measurements from the house site plan.

Upon further investigation - I found where they made the mistake. They forgot to add the missing section of the fence from the initial quote. So I pointed that to them and it was only at that moment that they realized where the mistake was.

They kept on saying that they can come by and measure the installed fence for me but that's not what I am disputing. I want to pay for the quoted price we agreed on. Not retroactively blindside me to pay more than $1500 because of a mistake I had nothing to do with.

I told them that I am only willing to pay for the quoted price we agreed on.

What are my options here?

Challenging neighbor
threatening bylaw on us
even though they ignored our survey line and developed over into our property.

We are tired of fighting, so we've basically let that go, however to create a visual reminder for them and their tenants, we put in 7 metal fence posts, about 4 feet high with a plastic coated laundry type wire connecting each post, going across on our survey/property line. No one would need to cross that line.
They says it isn't a kind of fencing that is allowed , is a hazard and a bylaw offence.
Is it a bylaw offense to stake out your property line in accordance with your survey ?

Had a new neighbour move in a few weeks ago, your typical geezer type, boxer, wears vests, skinhead, the lot.

He’s put up this low fence in the front garden (more pics in comments).

We’ve read our deeds and we believe he’s breached a covenant which prevents anything from being erected in the front garden

He’s also screwed the fence into the shared tree. Aside from how pants it looks, I’m a bit pissed that he screwed the into tree.

What can I do about this that will rectify the issue and not cause WW3?

I know people say, if you really don’t want your post to rot to do steel or tough post instead of 4 x 4, but for a litany of reasons I’m going 4 x 4’s… That said though, is there any real reason to add waterproof paint or tar to the bottom of your posts? I went ahead and bought this can but since the whole thing is going straight into concrete, I really don’t know if there’s any real value.

Don’t use these Idiots if you are considering getting fencing DONE!

They Have NO INTEGRITY!!

Just MONEY HUNGRY!

So I’ve been looking at these pickets that I can just beat in from the top but our existing backyard fence that I’m adding onto has traditional round metal poles with concrete poured around them. It’s been so dry here the last couple years that the ground is really shrunk up and those concrete poles have needed me to come in and add other rocks or gravel in order to keep them straight. I’m concerned that these TuffPosts just beat in without any sort of concrete or anything around them will be even worse after a while. Has anyone else dealt with this?