Building A Cedar Fence With Metal Posts

A wood fence with more privacy.

Building a cedar fence with metal posts.

Set your corner posts first before laying out the rest of your support posts. Wood posts cost less than metal. Tie a string between the posts at the top and bottom to act as guidelines. Drive two temporary steel posts to help you stake the fence.

Begin by measuring to determine the location of the fence posts and marking each point with spray paint. This style of wooden fence picket nests together to create a strong fence with little to zero visibility through the fence. Drive stakes where your fence s support posts will go. Building a fence metal post and wood fence.

Metal posts last way longer sometimes decades than wood because don t rot or warp. A good rule of thumb is to keep the posts less than 8 feet 2 4 m apart. Https amzn to 31b4rng stainless 1 5 8 screws. Since the posts are 4x4 the added four inches on each side will require holes measuring 12 x 12.

The depth of the holes will vary but leave at least four inches of clearance on each side of the post. The downside to building a fence with wood posts is that you ll likely need to replace the fence in 7 10 years. Hang the gate frame to the post hinges then drill holes through the top and bottom rail of the frame and attach wooden rails with carriage bolts. First construct a metal gate frame using thinner steel pipes than you used for the posts to reduce the weight of the gate.