I know I harped on about painting the fence in my last post, but you really can’t appreciate just how long it takes to paint pickets until you’ve done it. I think painting probably took twice as long as everything else combined, including digging and setting new fence posts, hassling the lumber yard, and hanging the gate (although we all agree, we’d rather paint another fence than hang that gate again).

The weather has been a little touch-and-go here, so some days we blew off work to paint. (Of course we always make up for it… )

We used a taught string as a guide for the tops of the pickets (you can barely see it in the photo above to the left of my head) and a 2×4 scrap as a spacer between pickets. I held up a spirit level every few pickets and made adjustments when needed. We’re using special screws that are “dactrotized” and apparently won’t rust or corrode in our marine environment.

We’re not quite finished putting up pickets, but many of my neighbors have already stopped to say how much they like the fence. I love it.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pm and is filed under This dream of mine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.