On Aug 31, 3:12*am, mm wrote:
A neighbor has a stockade fence, with pickets about 3 inches wide.

It's been in 5 or 7 years and it's easily possible to see between the
pickets into his yard. *It wast very difficult to see anything when
the fence was new.

Does that mean the fence was built with pickets that hadn't been aged
enough before construction???? * Have the boards shrunk more than they
should have??

A friend likes the fence otherwise and wants to hire the same company,
but I think she may get an inferior job, if this fence is inferior.

With using pressure treated on decks its common to butt boards tight,
after it dries you have nice gaps for drainage. PT is so wet new it
weighs near double of dry wood. To see no gaps some people fence both
sides of poles or use dried wood, the job was not inferior on that
part, how they sunk and secured posts and type of fasteners is more
important than gaps. To insure quality pull a permit and get the free
inspection you paid for, and dont fully pay until its fully approved,
your friend did pull a permit. The code office can if they want have
you remove it otherwise, but its usualy its just a fine.