Make Your Own Picket Fence Panels

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

Make your own picket fence panels.

While buying individual fence pickets may seem like a great idea when it comes to saving money and better customizing your fence building your own fence panels out of pickets takes a lot of time and effort. A solid fence has all pickets attached tightly together on the outside only blocking views and offering complete privacy. Make your fence panels 8 ft 2 4 m long each so divide your measurements by 8 to figure out how many panels you need to cover this area. So when installing two fence panels together in this manner as in to make a corner i butt the 2 4 s up together and install screws from the outside of the fence into the ends of the 2 4 s.

For example if your fence extends 24 ft 7 3 m back 16 ft 4 9 m to the right then another 24 ft 7 3 m forward that s 64 ft 20 m total. 9 using the picket method vs. If you are installing this fence in the front yard be sure to accurately determine your property line and the legal setback distance from the road. In lieu of pre assembled fence panels you install individual slats pickets one by one.

Using a jig for spacing space your next picket 2 away. This will allow you to accurately measure before purchasing fence panels and aid in keeping future holes in a straight line. How to build a picket fence. If you are planning to paint your picket fence do the steps before you start installing it.

This component built fence where you attach the pickets individually rather than in pre assembled panels will use 6 foot pickets that are 5 1 2 inches wide. Pre built fence panels the picket method is the cheaper fence installation. 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.

Give your fence some customization. This is also the preferred method for un level or uneven ground as you follow the contour of the land more closely. This will hold it enough to add in a 4 4 which i didn t show when making my cuts. Installing the fence step 4.

The space between the pickets will be 3 1 2 inches. More commonly you can purchase individual wooden fence pickets wholesale or from a fence manufacturer to build your own fence. Much like solid fence install your first picket against the house or at the end of the rails. At the end of the line approximately four pickets from the end measure from the fifth picket to the end of the fence.