Product Description

Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build is aimed at homeowners who would like to install a fence on their property to provide privacy, security, and beauty, or to contain domesticated animals. Anyone who has considered installing a fence can use this book to determine what kind of fence to choose and how to erect it. The book offers a practical combination of design, planning, and construction information. All types of fences are covered, including traditional picket styles and more modern board fences. Wood fences and gates are featured, but there are also chapters on vinyl, chain-link, and other utilitarian systems, such as underground electric pet fences. Individual chapters explain material options and show with step-by-step photo sequences how to install, finish, and repair many types of posts, rails, and gates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #419635 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
"[ "Fences & Gates]" is loaded with excellent color photography, step-by-step sequences and clear illustrations... If you'll be fence building this summer, this book is an essential..."
--Roy Berendsohn, "Popular Mechanics"
May 2003

Customer Reviews

Step-by-step how-to instructions for 11 complete projects
Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build is a straightforward, no-nonsense, "user friendly" guide to planning, designing, and building aesthetic and practical enclosures for one's own property. More than 400 full color photographs clearly illustrate step-by-step how-to instructions for eleven complete fence projects in wood, metal, and vinyl in this fine reference for do-it-yourself creators of all skill levels. Readers will learn how to layout fences on flat or sloped ground, how to install solid posts to support the fence, how to build curved fences, how to design and install the classic picket fence, how to design and build with decorative lattice, and how to finish and maintain fences. Also highly recommended "do-it-yourself" titles from Deck Designs (#277369); Creative Homeowner Is Decks (#277162); Yard & Garden Furniture: Plans & Step-By-Step Projects (#277462); Gazebos & Other Outdoor Structures (#27713); What's In Style: Decks (#277183).