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The project:
We have a beautiful rainforest and large drop off at our new home. Our young human kids and fur kids needed to be contained and safe. We wanted to make something that would blend and not take away from our new stunning view. We finished it off with some solar lights on the posts that gently light at night.
- Materials:
Timber posts
Timber sleepers
Pool fencing gate kit
Latches and locks
Black pool fencing
Screws
Timber waterproofing
Rapid set concrete
C section brackets
Solar lights
- Tools:
Excavator with an auger
Drills
Roller and paint tray
Circular saw
Grinder
Blood sweat and tears
String line
Level
Swearing
Shovels
- Step 1:
Gather your team of family members. Ensure everyone has a different opinion on how the fence should be built. Spend at least 30 minutes arguing before touching a tool.
- Step 2:
Start digging holes. Realise halfway through that everyone actually wanted the same thing—they just wanted to be heard.
- Step 3:
So the person that recently had shoulder surgery, doesn't leave them out. Give them a paintbrush and let them paint the posts while supervising everyone else.
- Step 4:
Set the posts into the ground and convince yourselves they're perfectly straight.
- Step 5:
Install retaining boards along the low side because gravity insists on making life difficult.
- Step 6:
Step back and admire your work... then let the person with OCD tendencies (not the home owner) point out everything that's "slightly off." Remove the retaining and do it all again.
- Step 7:
Measure the black fence panels. Measure again. Ignore the measurements anyway, cut them, and screw them into place.
- Step 8:
Invite the recovering shoulder patient back to paint the tops of the posts so they can proudly claim they "helped build the fence."
- Step 9:
Wait until all the heavy lifting is finished. Then have the person who contributed the least add the solar lights to the top of the posts and somehow receive all the compliments on how great the fence looks.
- Step 10:
Sit back and enjoy with a cold one.
