The resulting wooden gate can be stood up on a table ... placing them about 1 inch apart and creating the shape of a picket fence gate panel (higher in the middle and tapering downward on each ...

A picket fence often benefits from classic ... should not be used to mount your hardware on gates made of cedar, redwood, or oak. Tannins in the wood will eventually eat through the metal.

In the July 1994 issue, Popular Mechanics published a timeless how-to on making your own picket fence ... then a stockade fence with a locking gate may be in order. If, however, you just want ...

In Colonial times, a mixture of lime and water protected the wood pickets ... The white picket fence is so simple—a few slats affixed to horizontal rails, a gate or two—as to invite endless ...

It took two days for this five-bedroom house just east of Main Street to be snapped up. Built in 2016, it sits behind a white ...

Wood picket fences already painted go for about $31 for a 6-foot section, about $21 unpainted, at some home centers. Gates, posts and hardware will also cost you. Their prices vary substantially.

The second section, a 6' height installation, included 160 L.F. of pressure treated pine wood picket fence and ... vinyl coated chain link fence with a single swing gate. Gate hardware included ...

Gone are the days when the City Council of Nairobi (CCN) prescribed the height and type of front gates and fences to homes with the main aim being to mark boundaries and to ensure uniformity ...

Like the white picket fence ... compared to iron fences with peeling paint. Newly renovated houses for sale are dressed up from head to toe (or more aptly, awning to gate) in glittering steel.

The end of each stake was pounded into the soil so rodents would not dig under, then the tops were connected by a wood stringer either tied or nailed in place. This was the truest picket fence of ...

Q–I would like to have a decorative wood picket fence on my property. However, tackling such a project raises a lot of questions. What are the biggest obstacles one must overcome when building a ...

Everybody wanted a house with a picket fence.” But that could be any fence. How did a white wooden fence become synonymous with the American dream? In a piece for Smithsonian tracking the ...