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Default Finger in the air estimate - new fence.

On Saturday, 26 May 2018 19:51:54 UTC+1, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2018 16:55:52 +0100, alan_m wrote:
On 26/05/2018 14:17, David wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2018 20:55:16 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:



To be clear, I am talking about no wood at all but a number of gravel
boards stacked on top of each other.

This gives a concrete fence/wall which doesn't rattle in the breeze,
doesn't rot, and stores heat from the afternoon sun to radiate back.


And everywhere I've seen it done it looks like s***e


Yes, a common solution for the less salubrious areas.

Painted with exterior paint it looks remarkably good.

Cheers




Dave R


It's also expensive. Fine where needed, but not really where not.


NT