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.

Its not the installers fault, or the woods fault, what you describe is
normal. The only way to make a wood fence you cant see through is to
use T&G (tongue and groove) boards or a design that laps the boards.