Fence building cost?

[G]

Originally posted by mr2mike
I still have a tough time believing that a builder supplied a cedar fence.


Can you post some pictures that capture the wood grain and ends of some of the current fence?

Not hard to believe when the average home price is 2M in that area.

[mr2mike]

Don't know where he lives.

Only a certain # of new areas with those houses, so if it's where I'm thinking, large rock, glacial till below the surface is a high probability. Can make for tough post hole digging.

[tirebob]

My neighbour and I built our fence two summers ago over a weekend and a few evenings during the week. I am not 100 sure on the exact length anymore, but my one side, his alley side and his other neighbours side totaling about 250 LF (give or take a bit). We used pressure treated. We did shop around and found a good deal on the wood, and with the rental of the post hole auger, cement mixer for the posts and all the materials, the total for all materials and rentals was around $1500/$1600 if I remember correctly (I only paid for my third).

It wasn't a hard job to do. We had a couple buddies come help on the biggest days and I fired up the smoker and made ribs and a had beers etc. Actually was a pretty fun build and going by the quotes people seem to be getting, we saved many multiple thousands of dollars. Well worth the 25/30 or so hours of work we put in, and it was satisfying to do ourselves.

[Sugarphreak]

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[theken]

How do you deal with a neighbour that does not want to split costs? I also would like a chain fence, but we have big dogs, and one neighbour has 2 big dogs, and they don't get along.

I am looking to do my fence as soon as my tax return shows up.

[mo_money2supe]

Originally posted by theken
How do you deal with a neighbour that does not want to split costs? I also would like a chain fence, but we have big dogs, and one neighbour has 2 big dogs, and they don't get along.

I am looking to do my fence as soon as my tax return shows up.

From what I recall from past beyond fence threads, there's no legal course of action you can take to get your neighbour to share the cost of the fence - it's usually done in good faith. If your neighbour's unwilling to share costs, then at least that gives you the full freedom to choose design, material, post spacing, etc.

As for the comments about chain-link, I have a 5-footer chain-link fence on both sides with the neighbours. We chat all the time and even each others' kids say hi to us when we're all hanging out in the back yard. Takes away some privacy but I will gladly take a friendly community over privacy any day. Some other neighbours with chain-link fences put black strips through the holes so one could always go that route if dogs need their privacy, yet still allowing humans to interact.

[spikerS]

So, just finished this fence.





Cost was $36/foot (including a gate), and that was even with all the equipment problems on the first day that slowed us WAY down, and I paid a helper on the first day.


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As a funny note, The property pin was sunk pretty far, and I couldn't find it. Went of a lot report, and measured off of the different property lines to where I thought it should be, and averaged them all out. Started digging with a auger, and it just wouldn't go any deeper, so we lifted the auger to clear it, and this is what we saw, holding up the auger...

[A790]

What the shit is PT?

[Sugarphreak]

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[A790]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Pressure treated

Thanks

[pheoxs]

Hey guys, where's the best place to buy lumber at a decent price? Rona and home depot and such list a $/board, can you get a bit better deal buying larger volume?

I need about half a cord of 2x6's that are pressure treated @8' length. (I need about 125 boards)

[C_Dave45]

Originally posted by pheoxs
Hey guys, where's the best place to buy lumber at a decent price? Rona and home depot and such list a $/board, can you get a bit better deal buying larger volume?

I need about half a cord of 2x6's that are pressure treated @8' length. (I need about 125 boards)

If you buy 100,000 b/f maybe.

[codetrap]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by C_Dave45


If you buy 100,000 b/f maybe.

Ahh, thanks, I figured not but always worth asking

[jeffh]

Timbertown has their usual spring sale of outdoor lumber on sale for the month of April. Plus you can collect airmiles there on top of your credit card points.

[Sprockett]

Originally posted by spikerS
IIRC cedar is about 3x the cost of PT.

*edit* nope, i was wrong, a 1x6x6 PT is $2.95, while a 1x6x6 Cedar rough face is $3.60, so the cost is not too big of a gap any longer.

As a note, cost increase from PT to Cedar is pretty marginal on the fence boards but for anything else the gap grows. Doing 6x6s or 4x6s in Cedar is a huge difference.

We did our fence with Cedar boards and PT everything else...marginal increase in cost from an all PT fence. I like the two tone appearance but I suppose not everyone would. Just a thought.

[spikerS]

Originally posted by pheoxs
Hey guys, where's the best place to buy lumber at a decent price? Rona and home depot and such list a $/board, can you get a bit better deal buying larger volume?

I need about half a cord of 2x6's that are pressure treated @8' length. (I need about 125 boards)

125 pieces, they won't do anything. There is next to no mark up in lumber.

best thing you can do is get in good with a pro desk somewhere, and get real tight with them. Bring em in coffees and shit. before long, they will start cutting costs for you on their own when they can.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Sprockett


As a note, cost increase from PT to Cedar is pretty marginal on the fence boards but for anything else the gap grows. Doing 6x6s or 4x6s in Cedar is a huge difference.

We did our fence with Cedar boards and PT everything else...marginal increase in cost from an all PT fence. I like the two tone appearance but I suppose not everyone would. Just a thought.

Yeah but Cedar fence boards are gross, and look like shit after a few years. If you do Cedar, it's gotta be 5/4 board.

[spikerS]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Yeah but Cedar fence boards are gross, and look like shit after a few years. If you do Cedar, it's gotta be 5/4 board.

pretty much this, or you have to plane and seal it. Cedar fences look great for the first summer they are up, but after that they start to look like crap.

[CapnCrunch]

Originally posted by spikerS


125 pieces, they won't do anything. There is next to no mark up in lumber.

best thing you can do is get in good with a pro desk somewhere, and get real tight with them. Bring em in coffees and shit. before long, they will start cutting costs for you on their own when they can.

Also, handjobs. Lots and lots of handjobs.