Make Your Own Picket Fence

Planting your fence posts.

Make your own picket fence.

You can also buy pre cut pickets at home centers lumberyards and online retailers to save on the work of cutting your own. In this project i am building two small picket fence sections. Of course i am making these small sections for different areas around my house as in around the outside air unit and in front of our trash. For a fence that will be.

You can make a quick stop using a g cramp and a scrap of timber in seconds. Mark the corners of the fence and measure out the perimeter with a tape measure to calculate your materials. You ll go back and cut the tops off level later set the posts plumb and square to the line of your fence and set the base in concrete. Use posthole diggers or a power auger to create holes about 24 deep four feet apart.

At the end of the line approximately four pickets from the end measure from the fifth picket to the end of the fence. This site doesn t actually offer pictures of what their fences end up looking like. You will have to level every picket on a picket fence. Popular types of fences include privacy picket split rail and basket weave and can be made from such materials as wood vinyl and metal.

Your fence will be more solid if you dig each post hole depth about 30 percent of your picket length. After determining the distance between your fence posts make a mark on the ground where each post will be planted. If you re using a mitre saw for this it s simply a case of setting the saw to 45 degrees and then setting a stop on the saw to the required length. This project is not only a diy project but it s very affordable and it adds a bit of curb appeal to any house.

Traditionally a picket fence is about three to four feet tall if taller than four feet a picket fence starts to look like a barricade with 1 3 or 1 4 pickets. Using a jig for spacing space your next picket 2 away. Learning how to build a fence involves securing the posts attaching the panels or pickets and providing post caps. Determine how tall you want your fence usually between 24 and 42 and add just over two feet to that.

Much like solid fence install your first picket against the house or at the end of the rails. Make your own picket fence. Purchase sufficient posts to space them 8 feet apart and enough wood to make pickets. So any of these materials should work for your need whether it be a privacy fence perimeter fence or garden fence.

Building a fence can help increase home security and keep unwanted critters from your property.