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Picket Fence Installation
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" What kind of offenses that they were putting in. We're putting in a square spindle. Ornamental picket fence as they would follow -- Some three feet high. Those singles aren't. Squared -- but what an inch or inch and a quarter there was an inch and a quarter. Morris through these rail on the top and the -- through the bottom rails well okay. And then you make the individual sections to fit in between the posts yes remember specific length section to make up a specific point. Right okay. And then the posts themselves or they are they haul over dressed over pressure treated -- that's what are these are solid white -- post. And then they're buried about three feet deep in ground. So they're not set into any concrete or anything there just put into the ground they just set right directly into that are existing soil them -- what. What kind of a life expectancy can you have for a white cedar product like this voices heard -- last about twenty years. All right -- we go a section at a time and we don't really position the post until we've brought a section. Of the fence into play. So that everything stacks up just right correct. This gives us the final elevation of the post when we know about staffers. And -- screw the section in and on the section. And enable us to get the correct title next post. -- us figuring out what the staff should be is that purely. The terrain or do you Kennedy use an arithmetic formula to. Break it up so that you're just going up like two inches in every eight foot section -- what we generally do issues they level on automatic level set up in front of the truck over there. We measure the alliance. And then we. Take a shot on either end and measure the difference of the height elevation OK certain amount of sections divided into a certain amount of dropped their jurors. -- section staff and now what kind of a finish have you applied to the -- it's white cedar. With tourists -- native to the east correct and what kind of a finish is on there this is a stain finish bobbitt's. An opaque stain it has an oil base primer primer and it has a latex finish him. So that should last a good. A ten years problem and their rests -- should last well what Intel's about cost more or less process sunlight does Bob each promised different and it -- different than average cost would probably somewhere in the 400 to 550 miles per. Section painted and installed but it's a real top of the line fence are lime plaster and many years thanks thank you."