Can you reccomend a good website on Fence installation. (stockade)?

Answer 1

No offense,,, and no pun intended (Fence). I've installed miles of fencing in my time,,,and most of it LONG before the WWW. I doubt I've ever used a web site.

Stockade is usually 8 feet widths with the horizontals a bit longer. The fence is meant to be attached to treated 4 x 4's sunk into the ground at least 2 feet, meaning the posts have to be no less than 8 feet long. They are begun wherever you wish/need, then centered at 8 ft. Plumbed and level. Concrete can be added to the post hole for added support. At 2 feet deep there is little need of worry about frost line depth. With or without concrete, the holes can be filled, to ground level, allowed to settle, even using water to compact the soil, and within hours begin installing the fence sections.

I attach the fence sections, most often, above absolute ground level,,,and BTW LEVEL ground is an issue often. If in fact your property slopes you should determine all the scenarios before installation. You can use cord for a line in determining the fence being straight, and should check with your local zoning/permit authority. If your property line is the fence line, it may be that it will have to be surveyed and marked.

I use galvanized decking screws, no less than 2 1/2 inches, allowing for the fence thickness as well as the horizontals. If the fence borders a neighbor, it's customary to install with the horizontals facing your own property, and that may require being on a neighbors property to do the install. The fence section, as I mentioned, should come to the center of each upright. Then attach the next. The open area that occurs between the fence sections,,,caused by the protruding horizontals is easily filled with extra slats,,,also easily available.

if you intend installing a gate, they are ready made, and hardware is available. The gate will mean, that for its support and the action of it, you may have to run the uprights deeper, or have some bracing attached to an existing structure, to allow that the gate will not degrade the uprights it's attached to and sag,,,etc.

Rev. Steven

Answer 2

Go to Home Depot