Sunday, July 22, 2018

Day 999: Fence Topping

Its been a while since the fence went up (see here) and all the colours have started to fade now which actually looks quite nice. 

When we put in the fence, we purposely left the posts a bit long as we weren't sure if we'd want to put in a trellis. Turns out we did - and when I say we, I am of course referring to people other than me.


This ended up being a low priority hence this post coming so long after the first. Anyway, trellis' are dead easy to install.


The only challenging part was cutting them to size. This involved popping out the staple, removing the vertical slats, cutting the length and then gluing/nailing the slat back on.


I installed them with a bunch of galvanized nails so it won't rust. Overall about 45 min worth of work that took a year to do. The only thing remaining is to cut down the remainder of the posts and put on a cap to finish -expect this to be finished sometime next year I guess.


PS. As I write this Carolyn is battling to assemble a piece of Ikea furniture and absolutely refusing to read the instructions. Of course, rather than helping I've asked the kids to try and interpret the Ikea instructions for her while I hide away on the computer. My next project may be building myself a dog house in the garden to live in.

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