Building With Fence Panels
A wood fence can be used to give you and your family privacy when you are in your yard, or it can be a decorative way to establish property lines. Homeowners use fence panels when building a privacy fence because fence panels are prebuilt and ready to be installed. They reduce the work of installing a privacy fence significantly. But you still need to know how to work with wood panels to install them properly. Does this Spark an idea?
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A shadowbox fence offers a finished look on both sides. Wood fence panels come in three basic designs; solid, picket and shadowbox. Solid fence panels have boards that are close together and are designed to offer complete privacy. The picket fence design is an ornamental fence panel that defines properly lines or separates your yard from the front sidewalk. Picket fence panels skip alternating boards and offer no privacy.
Shadowbox fence panels offer the same look on both sides of the fence. With a solid fence panel, the fencing faces the neighbor's yard and the support braces face your yard. With a shadowbox fence, you and your neighbor get to see fence boards. If you were to look at each side of a shadowbox panel, it would look like a large picket fence panel with alternating boards missing. But the pattern on each side is staggered so there are no openings.
Height
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If you are looking for complete privacy from your fence panels, you need to get panels that are the right height. If your neighbor has a deck that is 3 feet off the ground, 6-foot-tall fence panels will not offer enough privacy. When your neighbor is sitting on his deck, he will easily be able to see over a 6-foot-tall fence panel. An 8-foot-tall panel would be more appropriate in this case.
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Support
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Over time, wooden fence panels can start to sag if they do not have the proper kind of support. When you install fence panels, place your fence posts no more than 8 feet apart. If you can go closer than 8 feet, you will improve the support for your fence. When you are buying wooden fence panels, get panels that have at least three horizontal support boards to ensure that the fence panels do not begin to sag over time.
Incline
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You have two options when installing wooden fence panels on an incline: the step method or parallel panels. The step method uses full panels installed in a step-like manner to follow the slope of the incline. Parallel panels are specially built to follow the incline in a parallel line.
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