Identify Fence Repair Needs: Home Improvement Repair & Maintenance Tips

Series Summary

As the saying goes, a man’s home is his castle. Any proud homeowner likes to take care of their property and make improvements on it. Weekends are usually reserved for working in the yard for at least a few hours, perhaps doing a bit of gardening or installing a new rosebush. But eventually, more has to be done to maintain a home. The wood fences that most residences have to cordon off their backyards will inevitably rot and decay, the paint will chip, and the gate will sag, resulting in an unsightly mass of wood in disrepair.

Fear not, proud homeowner! In this free do-it-yourself home improvement video series, learn how to repair and maintain your wooden fence, with tips on identifying problem areas and using safety equipment. Get step-by-step instructions for repairing loose gate hinges, replacing rotten wood and removing chipped paint.

Video Transcript

"So first thing to remember when you are repairing any fence is to look for your problem areas such as cracked paint. Like down here what need to be scraped, sanded and repainted. You also want to look for any sort of loose nut of bolts. Like these hinges here that are loose and then you want to check the back for any rotten wood that you might find. Some rotten stuff down here that needs to replaced. So we would take this board of and replace it with a new board and you just want to double check to make sure that all your nails and screws have stayed tight. Beyond that you just going to want to make sure that all your pieces and parts are in good working order. Like this needs to be tighten up here and the goal for the whole thing would be so that the gate will shout cleanly, look clean, and that we could fix this dip here in the gate to make it stand back straight when it was built."