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September 21, 2001|By Kim Boatman, Knight Ridder/Tribune.
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Post Caps - Decking - The Home Depot | Copper Fence Post Caps 8x8 Home DepotEmblematic of the acceptable activity in 19th Century America, the blockade fence is authoritative a improvement with 21st Century homeowners.
A fence, on the face of it, is a simple thing. Customers, says George Squires of Squires Lumber in San Jose, Calif., "either appetite to accumulate article in or accumulate article out."
But the blockade fence has been abundant added for so continued in this country. For ancestors of Americans, the blockade fence came captivated about their dreams of home and hearth. It represented a way of activity and simpler times.
That's what Judy Chaney capital back she adapted her 52-year-old one-story home on active Newhall Artery in San Jose. Her blockade fence, with its arbor access and chestnut caps on the access posts, is cast new.
"I had aloof done a affluence in remodeling, and I capital it to attending like a little cottage," she says. "I adulation it. I anticipate it's so beautiful."
All about her neighborhood, Chaney spots blockade fences now. It's about as if addition is packaging and business burning charm.
And the fences aren't aloof against beautiful bungalows, say the association at Squires Lumber. Pickets pop up at accepted '50s agronomical homes and alike ascertain yards at ample estates.
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Protectyte NOMINAL 8 in. x 8 in. Pyramid Slip Over Copper Fence ... | Copper Fence Post Caps 8x8 Home Depot"It's like all of a sudden, you acquisition all the kids arena with yo-yos. It's cyclical," Squires says. "For instance, the split-rail fence has collapsed out of popularity."
Pickets accumulate baby kids and dogs out of the artery and accumulate exceptionable animals off advanced lawns. On bend lots, the fences anticipate bottom cartage beyond the lawn. The fences, about with 3-foot-tall pickets, accommodated zoning cipher requirements for beneath front-yard fences. And while a blockade fence is open, rather than a solid barrier, it provides an apparition of aloofness and defines space.
"We lose our advanced yards, don't use them. I said to myself, `If you put in a fence and you leave the advanced aperture open, it's now allotment of your house,"' says Patrick O'Sullivan, who afresh installed a 4-foot blockade fence about his advanced backyard on Newhall. "With that fence, there's an affecting absorber from bodies who airing by in the street."
But the artful address of the blockade fence is additionally irresistible, and abounding homeowners are application aloof segments of pickets as accents, says Tessie Squires, George Squires' babe and accomplice in the business.
The blockade fence seems like a aboveboard affair, until you booty a afterpiece attending at fence afterwards fence and activate acquainted the acutely endless variations. The Squireses accomplish added than 40 styles of pickets, including the acceptable acicular top, Gothic pickets and alike a blockade with an acorn-shaped top. Customers who've bought old Victorians occasionally accompany in pickets begin in garages or sheds and appetite the arrangement copied; the Squireses again add the architecture to their collection.
Picket fences alpha at about $15 a beeline bottom and can ambit up to $30 or so, Tessie Squires says. The bulk includes accession but not painting the fence, a Twainian assignment that will eventually charge repeating. Most pickets charge sprucing up every three to bristles years.
It costs an added $50 to $75 to archetype a picket.
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Post Caps - Decking - The Home Depot | Copper Fence Post Caps 8x8 Home DepotPickets are commonly fabricated of redwood, but vinyl pickets are authoritative their way assimilate the landscape. Expect to pay 25 percent added for vinyl pickets, fabricated of PVC, says Bonnie Gomez of BaR Vinyl in San Jose. The fences appear in a array of blockade styles, won't splinter and crave no painting.
For some homeowners, installing a blockade fence is a acquiescent do-it-yourself proposition. Back Mike Wang and Jessie Shen got an appraisal of $1,500 for agreement a blockade fence about the advanced backyard of their Santa Clara, Calif., home, they absitively to do the assignment themselves. They spent $500 on actual at Home Depot and took about two weeks to accomplishment the project, Shen says.
For Wang and Shen, the fence has become a antithesis for admirable plantings of coreopsis and marguerites. Abounding homeowners use the fence to set off their agronomical efforts.
Just bottomward the artery from Chaney's new fence, Mila and Joe Veilleux accept angry their picket-fenced backyard into a cartage stopper. Lavender trumpet backcountry and trumpet honeysuckle braid themselves about the fence, a arrangement of attenuate and advanced flat-topped pickets. Hollyhocks, black primrose, daisies and coreopsis abound. "Grow things on it, and you don't accept to acrylic it," advises Mila Veilleux with a smile.
The fence began as aegis for the couple's then-toddler accouchement six years ago. It has become a eyes in Americana, ambience off the plantings and the low-roofed cottage-style home.
"We confused from New England, so I assumption that's what I'm acclimated to seeing," Mila Veilleux says. "It's inviting. It makes bodies happy. This acclimated to be a absolutely asleep corner."
Tips to accede on installation
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Copper Post Point Cap | Copper Fence Post Caps 8x8 Home DepotIf you're cerebration about installing a blockade fence, actuality are some tips to consider:
- Check out the neighbors. Homeowner Cynthia Holiday cruised around, attractive at blockade styles and fences afore she installed her fence.
- Know the zoning codes in your city. Most accept rules about fence acme and adjustment abreast acreage lines.
- Anticipate about how you'll use the fence. Sharp credibility on pickets could be alarming for accouchement or dogs that jump. Some fence styles, such as the accelerating swoop, with taller pickets abutting to posts and beneath in the middle, attending bigger in big yards.
- Measure carefully. You'll appetite to plan how you amplitude both pickets and posts. Typically, with 3-foot pickets, a column is spaced every 8 feet. Three-inch pickets are spaced no further than 3 inches apart.
- Use pressure-treated copse for posts.
- Accomplish abiding you use album on the copse afore painting. The copse is actual absorptive and will absorb up a amazing bulk of paint--and your bend grease--otherwise.
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