"Leon" wrote in message
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This was about my 20th fence and practice does make perfect. Pictures on
a.b.p.w, sorry for the quality, I was using a camera phone. A tape
measure was only used to measure post hole depth and final post height
after cementing them in and attaching the bottom rot board. PT lumber on
every thing except for the cedar pickets.

My neighbor had a new fence put in about 3 years ago. He bragged about what
a cheap price he was paying. He got lots of quotes and found a slimeball
firm to build him a fence that barely stood there. I pointed out the poor
construction and he kept yelling about how he got a 20 YEAR GAURANTEE!!

A big windstorm came up about a year ago and totally trashed his fence. Not
from the wind, it was those big branches that broke off his trees and landed
on the fence. Ir it had been built well, he could have just patched up the
holes. But the fence was crap and the whole fence was just destroyed.

He was building the fence right this time himself. He kept complaining that
the other guys were ripoffs because they had a "act of god" clause in their
gaurantee. LOL