Building A Fence Part 1

The concept of building a fence isn’t all that foreign to us. It’s something that people would talk about on tv, and in cartoons, or sometimes characters in a book will build one to fence out their annoying neighbors or keep pesky wildlife out of their gardens or something. How many of us knows what goes into building an actual fence? Where would you even start? Think about it, take a second this is an article online the words will wait. Did you think of anything, if so you were further along than I was when I first started researching this topic.

First things first, can you build a fence? I’m not talking about your physical ability to do it. You’ll need to access that for yourself. I mean is building a fence within the rules and guidelines of your neighborhood or neighborhood association? Depending on your neighborhood there might be restrictions that you agreed to in the terms and conditions contract you signed when you moved in. This agreement could control everything about your fencing possibilities such as parameters of said fence or if you can have one at all. You should have a copy of that contract somewhere, hopefully somewhere it is easily found. If you didn’t sign any agreement when you moved in, then your probably fine to start thinking about building a fence without the fear of fines and forced removal of said fence. Unless your cities planning, and zoning department wants a say in the parameters of your hypothetical fence too… it might, you may need to look it up.

Your next step would be something equally exciting. Getting a permit. You may need a permit, to build a fence,

IN. YOUR. OWN. YARD! So far this process is seeing how many organizations feel the need to be knee deep in your business. You may not need a permit but once again you’ll probably need to check. You’ll probably be approved and after you’ve actually built the fence one more person, an inspector, is going to get in your business one more time to make sure it’s up to standards. It’s been three paragraphs and we’ve not gotten around to the actual building of the fence… which I’ll leave for another article Part Two. What can I say I got tired and we haven’t even chosen materials yet!

What I hope this impresses upon you is the time commitment of building a fence. Even if you pay for it to be built for you, you’re going to need to do the steps in this article beforehand. Good luck, and I hope you still have enough energy to follow me to part 2!