Building a Backyard Privacy Fence With My Son
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First of all, really good video on fence building. A few things that a DIYer may not know and should definitely take in to account when building a fence; Make sure you get the utilities marked in the areas that you plan to build within. Not only could you get hurt if you bore/dig into a utility line but you're also liable for the damage. Every state in the US has an agency dedicated to marking utilities, be it Dig Safe, Call Before You Dig, or 811. They have websites with instructions on what to do and it's worth the effort to avoid utilities. Second, make sure you read your local codes on fence construction. Depth of posts was mentioned, but post spacing, max fence height and even fence design may be specified. There also may be limitations on where the fence can be placed within the property. The local codes will also specify if a permit is required to build a fence. If you live in an HOA community, they may have their own rules on fence construction that you'll need to follow. Third and last, if you plan to build a fence along a property line, make sure you get a licensed surveyor to mark the property lines for you. Putting a fence up, only to find out that you placed it on someone else's property isn't something you want to do and may require you to take the fence out and restore the neighbors property.
HOA nope screw those turd suckers Codes? Pffffttttt just do it right 811 ok unless I’m just replacing an existing rotted POS
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Tx for sharing! I also lives in an HOA community it’s allow only 4 ft of privacy fence!😂upper part of body may not be covered by privacy .
@@uttambista5079 I’m 6 foot one female that would really suck if I couldn’t feel like my pillow face couldn’t be hidden for the day until as well he went down. Lol.
Well, I am not even a third way through the video but when you start putting up those horizontal posts, it seems to me like you’re putting them on the wrong side because I thought that that was the street side where that brick sign looking structure in my wrong or am I an annoying b….. sorry ha ha ha
New shed series starts next week. Looking forward to it. Cheers!
Looking forward to it! I really need to tear down my existing one and make a new one.
always super informative, appreciate it
i want to put a bigger window in my "she" shed office. A video on that would be nice. Putting in a new header. . .trimmers and king stud all from the inside. With minimal drywall cutting. Not alot of good videos on this. Thanks!
The foam doesn't work. Also when are you due?
Nice job Jeff. I especially love all your grunts and groans while working. I do the same exact thing and sometimes customers will ask me if I'm alright. I tell them it's part of the process of doing this work when your pushing 60.
Your method is exceptionally straightforward and displays your skilled Craftsmanship! Well done to both you and your son!
I have watched so many guys tell me "It's so easy!". But you are so through, like having my grandpa explain how to do stuff. Appreciate all your videos. Now I need to ask my neighbor how does he want to split costs.
Like a senile grandpa. Do not follow this "tutorial" as it will only lead to a bad fence. He doesn't know what he is doing and just makes up things as he goes. There are much better, accurate tutorials on youtube you could follow.
Always try to catch one of your videos when they appear in my feed. And appreciate your knowledge and professionalism and over over character. In fact, you may be my favorite Canadian.
OMG!!!... Love's It!!!... The privacy is fabulous n sooo beyond important!!!... You just did such a great job and the fact that the table matches the deck!!!... wow...just beautiful!!!... 💜 👍🏾😊...
Love Sika foam "concrete"! I used it to re-do my whole backyard and put a new front yard fence! Its pricey, but definitely worth it.
You the man! 👍
I loved when you talked about the level and the “triangle”. You are right on! I framed for 23 years and was the best at it and still say level.
@Home Renovision DIY Jeff, What I did to extend the life of my posts on my chicken coop was coat the buried length and bottom end with Henry asphalt sealer from the Roofing Aisle at Home Depot. It's cheap($13) and rubberizes the posts. Hell, the utility company covers poles in tar for the same reason, or at least they used to.
I was thinking the same thing after I dug up and sealed my foundation. It’s easy and cheap and unless it eats at the wood I don’t see a reason not to.
Yes me as a Girl thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this video, very educating💃🏻
Quick mix for the post holes
i dug mine with a one man auger on a slope, that sucked. Nice to have help! Wish this video had been out 15 years ago! lol
I Biuld one fence with the foam 4yrs ago the fences still up on that house the client was placed! Some other people won't trust the foam system for fences the still want concrete......I saw that foam system for the first time in the tv show ( This Old House ) on PBS Houston channel 8 ba k in 2016 or so ! I'm satisfied with that system is so quickly and saving lot of time and finicky effort.
In my city (Syracuse, NY), if you have a fence because you have a pool (code required), then the horizontals need to face inward towards your yard to prevent it from being climbed over from the outside.
funny because vertical fences never stop kids who want to swim.
Where I live (Omaha, NE) all fences have to have the finished side facing out. So it can become a game of who blinks first with your neighbor to see who gets the "nice" side.
Huh up in the North Country it’s the opposite. The finish side always is in the outside.
Here in North Carolina we do what we want 😂 if kids wanna swim, they're gonna swim😂
Same here where I live in Southern Illinois.
This is great! I would definitely do the final Skil Saw cut across the top of the fence but that's just because my OCD can't abide by seeing the top of the fence all jagged like that! LOL... Great video and great easy method for attaching everything and just good tips for working by one's self. Always love your videos, brother. Keep them coming! Shalom from Tennessee!
Thank you Jeff and Matt, perfect timing for this video, we're starting mine this next week. Learned alot from this video. Thank you two again!!👏👏👏👍
Cheers my man. glad to be helpful.
In my youth in thr Akron, OH area I spent a season building Cedar. We never built fences the way I see youtubers build. I guess none of them had a man in the company yard pre-building section of fence. We started with a string line to do one side, dig a hole set the first post, set second post then installed a section. Repeat until done. Any adjustment to post to keep run straight was done at the time of install. I know people will say I'm crazy but we never got a single call back on a install. No waiting for concrete to set and come back to finish. One and done.
Got to love it when the boss say “let’s” !!! That means you😅
Always!
Thank you so much I appreciate how you made the fence
Enjoyed the video. Some great info. Fence looks a tidy job. Well done both.
19:14 the timing with the box truck going by was flawless 😂😂
I used this type of foam to build my fence in 2012, nothing has changed eleven years later. From Montreal.
Planning to replace our aged fence built by previous owner this March. Not sure how to remove old posts yet. Your video is perfect timing. I think I'll follow your method. Thanks!
Put a piece of 2x4 on the post and get a jack and jack the 2x4 with the post up... When it's too high, move the 2x4 lower and repeat until the post is out
Good job SR
Man miss that beautiful north east. Going home after 8 years finally! Also Pennsylvania is sun up, sun down projects also.
Jeff & Max, you guys have a 4yr old video "Fix your bathroom fan vent FAST!" and I'm sure you both remember it. Hot, sweaty, about 4ft high attic ceiling. Well, I just did that job myself as well as adding new R-30 to our attic. And I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate you guys doing that job plus filming and explaining all the tricks, while still finding room to giggle at the new problems you found. Your channel is a gold mine and I don't take it for granted!
Great to hear that our older videos ae still being useful. Cheers to a dirty job well done.
Good for you. I'm getting my nerve up.
Looks beautiful!
The finished look is really nice, well done overall. I wouldn't use the foam personally, but the biggest thing is the boards rotting from the ground up because you can't stain the bottom once it's installed and it takes ages to dry out every time it rains. Our fence is getting ready to be redone and I wanna do a concrete footing with galvanized post bases. A little more work and money up front, but the fence part will be a breeze and last much longer.
Hello my friend❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fair enough!
We did the ground contact 4x4 with the viynl post sleeve over it and sunk it in concrete. Luckily we have sandy soil so it drains well. We still added gravel in the bottom for drainage. Caps on the tops of the viynl post so no water gets into the post and there is no exposed bare wood so the viynl covers the post in the cement. Boy is it solid! 😅 We had a big windstorm and the neighbors big 60 ft. Pine tree fell on our new fence(almost gave us a heart attack! Since we had just finished installing it the year prior). Top half of the tree ended up in our yard and laying on our fence. Knocked out the power lines so crews had to bring in big equipment to fix the lines and cut the tree out of the way. Our fence barely had a scratch! 😊 The fence still looks great after 8 years. 👍 The fence is fixed panels so they are stronger too.
We just finished another section of fence with galvanized posts. We love it! When the wood rots(and it will) all we have to do is pop off the boards and attach new ones. So both are fence options that work well for long term use. No part of my fence is wood alone in the ground/cement Seen too many saggy fences in my time... It is worth the extra expense. 😅 We did it ourselves. It looks great! Saved a ton of money doing it ourselves. Even got a written agreement/contract with our neighbors to share the costs/permits, etc. The city suggested working with the neighbor and getting a written agreement to avoid conflict and have something grandfathered in. 😊
There is an ancient, I do believe it is Chinese possibly Japanese. Where you char the wood and then add oil to it. Whether it be canola or whatever you have available. Some ppl have used, used Motor oil. Most, if not all of these structures are still intact to this day! We are talking 300+ years.
Just love the way you work...
I love this guy you are just perfect
I like this guy...not only is he good at what he does...but he doesn't sit there and tell people to " be careful! Put on ur safety glasses....drink plenty of water while ur working..." Like a mother hen...Lol
Nice bird shot @ 15:20 !
Love it, love it, love it.
I noticed a few different techniques that could be useful. A few tips for beginners/DIY’ers: I, personally, always use quick setting concrete, I never offset the horizontal 2x4 (I like a clean even look throughout), I also place the 2x4 on the inside (facing your yard), with the vertical panels on the outside, again, gives a clean look for the outsiders. Something to take into account, is having the horizontal 2x4 (I like to call it the ladder) prevents outsiders from climbing on/over your fence. 👍
Easy on the commas there young man
Also, by putting the horizontal boards on the outside you give someone something to step on if the want to look over and possibly jump the fence.
@@mariodidit3333 Yes, I stated that. 👍👍
@@anon-nx2hn How to you place your horizontal 2x4's if the lawn is sloped and you don't like the look of stairstepping them?
@@Cotronixco Good question. You stagger your vertical boards (to the slope) not the horizontal 2x4’s. Maintain your same measurement/level horizontally and you’ll never be off.
PERFECT timing!
Cheers Vince!
Ottawa in the summertime looks beautiful
Learning so much. Thankyou so very much. 😎
Great video as always Jeff. I'm curious about the nails you use because I'm looking for hot dipped galvanized ring shank nails for a siding nailer like yours for my next fence. It look to get the job done way faster than using screws and an impact driver. Those nails are available in the home depot usa but not in Canada. I live in Quebec city area which is hopefully going to remain a part of Canada. Thanks a lot.
damn thanks for this video im going to do 300ft fence myself and this gave me a lot more information and tips
This is great! Saving this video!
I could have used this last spring. 😂 we did a shadow box style fence ourselves. Lots of arguments later, it's finished and looked pretty decent for a two DIYers and a preteen (when he wanted to help 🤣🤣
Thanks Jeff for another great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video as always! Wish I could see what it looked like on the back of the fence, since we are required to face the "good side" in the neighbors direction.
Thank you for the informational video. I did my fence just like yours in the video. I want to ask if it is possible to cover the backside of the fence. And how?
5:40 well chuck! I am so happy to hear that! I live in alberta and had to put my fence back after it was removed to build a garage. I dug the post holes myself with a manual auger and a post digger, it was only 4 holes but it was fucking hell and I was so worked up that I barely got past 3ft!
always rent the tool even if it is only a 1 man auger. Cheers!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY learned that lesson the hard way!
Its beautiful,great job.Thanks
Thank you! 😊
I don't need to put up a fence but I did need an idea of how to stop hitting the fence when I'm mowing or whippering. The pebbles has given me an idea of doing that to my fence line. Thanks!
Cheers! just drop a landscape cloth first and go.
Great video, and I fully intend on building this, this coming spring. My question, how would I go about insulating the floor? I want to use this as a "game room" for pinball machines and arcade games, and intend on insulating the walls and ceiling, and putting heat and a window AC in it. Thanks!
great video. found it just in time cuz im about to do the same thing.
Thanks for the fence video dad
This makes me want to try a fence build
How funny I was just at Home Depot today and I saw a 4x4 with the ground contact sticker-that was my first time I saw that and now I’m seeing this on your video the same day 😅. Of course I already knew about regular and pressure treated wood but was not aware of the in ground label.
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Will the foam hold up in Florida with all this rain? Great tip on how to place the cross boards. The last hurricane completely ripped out half of my fence on one side of the property the cement poured in it was in a ball all post came up when went out to look at damaged gate just leaning over panels broken too. I just continued removing have a metal fence still blocking between my property and neighbors this video perfect now that weather is cooler can begin actually might need to take that whole side down instead of patching just the middle always something right. Thanks for posting. Another question where can I purchase that foam?
At 28:06 it sounds like the demon inside of you wants to come out! That foam is wicked cool and looks so easy to use. Great video and techniques. 🔨great way to put the stain on! One thing I would have done is treat all the cut ends at once, put the lid on and forget it. Also, not having the tops of the boards not lined up would drive me crazy.
A boat load of juicy pro tips in this one folks😂❤❤❤❤ and yes that stupid triangle isn't a square, it's a triangle 😂
wow you guys got all cinematic with this one
LOL, my boys and I built a deck, thanks to you and your videos, turned out pretty good for the first time building a deck. I would ask one of my boys, now my Son's are smart and can build a computer in no time flat, I can barely operate one. But ask them to bring over a "square" they will be looking all over the place for a square piece of metal with numbers on it. And yes, level is plumb, I always call everything "level" when using a level. Nice fence. Tom-WV.
Cheers Tom. building with the kids makes priceless memories and creates a spirit of independence in them.
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
Excellent. Thanks.
Cheers!
You can take the length of a side and convert it to inches. Then divide it by 96 to give you how many posts would fit that section evenly space. If it’s not a full number, say it’s 10.5 posts, divide the full side in inches by 11 posts and that will give you the exact measurement for perfectly evenly spaced posts. Rather then just measuring 8’ and then ending up with the last section in each side being bigger or smaller than all the other sections.
“ See that what I was thinking “…to have a son helping me when I’m old. 😂
hey there, just wanted to know if there was any particular reason why you use a roofing gun and not a framing. Would 16 gauge be strong enough too?
In uk we use concrete/ wood gravel boards, good for setting level also.
Cheers!
How does the cost of the foam compare to using Quickcrete (or similar)? I had to remove a metal post that the satellite company installed with foam. It was a pain digging out all the foam. It didn’t pull out of the ground with the post.
Code in MN. You have to present the finished side to your neighbor. Just curious how to maintain parallel with all the posts? I used string lines on both sides to do it as I put them in the ground anchored from all the corners. I also used a string line to maintain height on my slope...a spot on perfect line. Perfect fence every time...Used a string line to put in all the screws. Basically use string lines to get a perfect outcome...My fence was put in 15 years ago. Still perfect...I even pre-stained the entire fence before install. I also screwed every slat and post. Nails pull out over time. Unless you use ring shank nails...
What neighbours?
@@DanielDickin Its not the Queens English. When we kicked the Brits out of the Colonies we took "U" out of it ;)
Connecticut same same! 😂
@@JTOTHEW3000 I bet you are fun at parties........................
Let's be honest. That fence is gonna flop around in 3 years and have to be redone.
I am not even building a fence, but just enjoy your videos. I will be building hillside stairs in the spring, so could use a video on that. Lol
sorry I am going to disappoint you there, Good luck. and remember every time you have a landing 36 x 36 you can change the rise and run of the stairs. that is one of the tricks to staying sane on that type of build. Cheers!
Gracias por los videos en español gracias muchas gracias y que pase un buen fin de año y felix navidad
I already have a chain link fence but I’d love to do this although the neighbor doesn’t want to go half on doing this kind of fence and loves the idea getting a privacy fence added. My problem is I have a shed house in front of my fence and I want to have the pretty side looking towards me since I’m paying not there’s… is there any suggestions?
My boyfriend to the rescue again!!! hahaha
What keeps the weeds from growing up thru your clean rock you mentioned? Even over time the rock will get covered in debris and rot down into dirt and that starts the weeds growing that way too. Personally I rather put concrete down the fence line for the mower wheel to run on cutting the grass. But you still have to keep the concrete clean or eventually the dirt would build up on the concrete and weeds would grow there!
Now yer neighbour comes along and decides to paint his side of the fence Red and paint runs through the cracks and looks lovely. Hence the TV show "Fear Thy Neighbour". lol
Can you burn the ends of the 4x4's that are in the ground for better protection against the elements?
I love the fact that you own a church ❤ your a fliping genius
Here in Michigan the frost line is 42 inches, and the code requires us to excavate at least 6 inches below the frost line to prevent shifting. Making the post hole depth an overall of 48 inches.
for a fence??? i can see that for a deck but not a fence
@@jayboo8495 Here in Michigan temperature's get below freezing. It's necessary to prevent Frost up heaving by securing any supporting post at least 6 inches below the 42-inch frost line. It's more than just being structural; it also prevents post from shifting out of alignment from each other. I've seen fence post so shifted out of alignment, looking like Rollercoaster tracks, due to improper foundation and frost up heaving. One third to half the post Hight should be in the ground.
i live even further north in toronto. we have to go 36 for fence posts. deck is 48
Matty take advantage of the lessons your dad is one of the best handyman. Great Vid❤
Hello , what kind of screws and nails do you use ? Should they be stainless steel ? Thank you
Who else is cringing when you see the wind blow stain toward Jeff as he sprays the fence without a respirator😂
Would appreciate the name of the two stain products that you used on this fence, and if they came from Home Depot or elsewhere
I think I saw you yesterday in Home Depot in Leesburg, Fl. I started to holler but I didn’t want to bother you. Was that you? If not you have a twin lol. Thank you for sharing 👍👍 stay safe healthy and happy ✝️🇺🇸
Yes, currently working on the trailer for more videos in the spring. Feel free to say hello. I love meeting viewers of the channel. Cheers!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY That’s so neat 👍🏻. Can’t wait to see those. Thanks for letting me know. Stay safe healthy and happy ✝️🇺🇸❤️
Is it bad if the vertical boards extend down into the dirt? Whom ever build my fence extended them into what is mud because of how my yard drains, I think it’s causing the boards to absorb a lot of extra moisture over time
Just great: Thanks
quality of the videos have been so good lately
always working on getting better. Cheers!
Excellent !
Any comments on frost heave, since the frost portion of the foam around the posts will not be smooth? Sonatubes?
Your son will be the future best home renovation experts he learned a lots of from you father n son team good job
Is it possible to stain my new fence with a clear coating of protectant or do you have to pick a color? My association is requiring approval to protect our new fence since it changes the color of the fence and i just want to do it without dealing with them.
''Should be 40 to 50 years'' Have a fence on my property less than a decade old because of premature rot. Knowing the history makes sense, but we got to repair so much. My husband wants a wood fence, and building it ourself would be the best option.
Does the rear part of the fence have gaps between the panels as I can see through parts of it?
Your son is so blessed to be taught by the best God bless! May God help more children be raised like this.
I wouldn't say "best". This guy cuts so many corners and is a nightmare for all the real contractors out there that will eventually need to clean up his mess.
I agree with the level language, but the triangle thing is called a speed square...😂
question after you have dug your holes set your post in how do you get them all the same length ? Do you have to measure and cut some of the tops off ? T y
Soak overnight, the Ends of 4x4’s that go into Ground in 80/20% Motor Oil to Diesel. It will add life to the Post that’s in the ground. Re:Apply @ ground level every several yrs, w a paint brush, to add to the lifespan.
love the video but I would have put deck screws in the bottom of the fence post to really lick it in. I use concrete, I do not know if the foam is used in the states. I have never heard of it.
I was literally talking yesterday with my father about building a fence
Level it yep same here in Ireland
I went 5 foot spacings in 2020. I used 2x6 spanned across 3 posts.
Good video. Bones to top notch.