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Building a Privacy Fence

Bob reviews the progress the Western Red Cedar custom fence designed to block the carport from the neighbors view at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jay Triandafilou has scribed the fence around existing hemlock trees on the property line. This allows a straight fence without having to damage any trees. The fences gate mirrors the architectural design of the home.
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Building a Privacy Fence

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" Here we have the beginning of a solid fence which will give us privacy in this parking area and hide cars from the neighbor's view it's six feet -- made out of western. Red cedar and jade tree and a -- And from architectural fence you and the fellas are doing a marvelous job -- but here's where you have the real challenge right -- We have these hemlock trees as someone planted -- go on the property line. Yes what we did Bob was we shot news a straight line on your property -- and without. And without removing the tree pollen mold phrase we were able to -- we have described sections in place this which are doing so that when you put this section in through here. And join the -- it's an you're seeing a trunk of the tree we're going to see some of the front and run into solid fence I think it's a neat way of doing it it is obviously you don't want to disturb the trees yes how do you go about scribing. What we do it would hold the panel up this pot being flush with the supposed to area. We have an extended pencil victory simple device has put a pencil on the end of a little he's with here -- we've traced the trunk of the tree. Right now on a section lines and of course. That will probably require making several cuts there's number cuts ought to be rough an -- up against it and cut it again that's correct all right well I'll get out of -- we want to go toward the kitchen but first let's take a look at this gate that they -- This. If you have followed some of the detailing inside the house this echoes the market -- that we have in the front hall and of course they've laminated to get this arch."

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