#Wood fence lattice top install
#Wood fence lattice top plus

This should give you an approximate number of frames minus gate openings. Measure your property perimeter and divide by eight. These frames are about 6 feet tall by 8 feet in length. If we could provide any insight on how long or hard certain steps are we added notes in each section. All of the tools used for this project are things we’ll use for house projects in the future. Get comfortable with different tools, cause you are going to use a lot of them. After working on it and boiling down the steps, it’s not that bad. We broke this project out in three phases to make it easier. I’ll follow up with another post specifically on tick control. I was talking to a friend and they suggested a few more simple things we can do to reduce the ticks in the yard. It’s still experimental, but we’re willing to try anything.

I’ve talked to a few people who started using these years ago and have found positive feedback. A fence will help keep the big animals out, and we are going to use tick tubes to address the small critters like mice that are big carriers of ticks. The fence is the start of claiming a perimeter for our yard and focusing on tick control over the next few years. Ticks and Lyme disease are very prevalent in the area we live. Hopefully we have the same luck with this fence – deer can topple a fence if they are hungry! I think we’ll have to watch out in the winter. We need to stop the deer! We’ve had a 6 foot fence by our garden for the past two years and the deer have not bothered with it. Wildlife! We notice lots of wildlife like deer and moles in the back yard.

#Wood fence lattice top plus

No invisible fence will help with that, plus we live close to a busy road and are concerned about the dogs being hit by a car. Our dogs don’t really have a place to run off leash without the risk of them taking off after a deer. The fence is a high priority on a personal level because of our dogs. We have two dogs (Nero, a boxer and Sugar, a pibble) who need a place to run and get their energy out. Every renovation project we consider gets moved to the top of our list if it makes our day-to-day life better.

Plus, it looks nice! Once we have this all painted, it will fit right in with the house and landscape. Why Wooden Lattice? We wanted some visibility and didn’t want to completely block off the view between the yard sections. No joke it’s a lot of work, we get it! But sweat equity keeps cash in our pocket to reinvest in our home elsewhere.

#Wood fence lattice top install

We looked at the product a few local fence places offered and the cost to install – that’s when we decided to DIY. We completely understand it’s easier to maintain, but for us the historic feel of our home and surrounding property are more important than maintenance. Plastic is not an option if you are a working with a historic property. Grant smoked his last cigar here!) so we had to take the historic nature of the house into consideration. All opinions our own. Not too long after buying our house we quickly discovered the value of installing a wooden lattice fence. This post is sponsored by Lowe’s Home Improvement.