Comments on: Cold, hard facts from the List about fencing http://bluehouseblog.com/cold-hard-facts-from-the-list-about-fencing Dispatches from the home of Angie's List magazine. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:06:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Real Estate Jim http://bluehouseblog.com/cold-hard-facts-from-the-list-about-fencing#comment-709 Real Estate Jim Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:31 +0000 http://bluehouseblog.com/?p=300#comment-709 True, a good fence is never cheap, but getting good workers to put in a great fence for the best possible price is fairly easy, thanks to Angie's list! True, a good fence is never cheap, but getting good workers to put in a great fence for the best possible price is fairly easy, thanks to Angie’s list!

]]> By: Tristan http://bluehouseblog.com/cold-hard-facts-from-the-list-about-fencing#comment-707 Tristan Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:10:01 +0000 http://bluehouseblog.com/?p=300#comment-707 Unfortunately, I've found that even a DIY fence job still costs a decent amount of money. We have a ~4-foot-high picket fence on the front edge of our backyard, next to our house, and our dog Diva keeps leaping over the fence. (At 8 years old, she's no spring chicken - though apparently she does have springs for legs.) So I bought 78 taller pickets to fill in the spaces between the old fence's pickets. This cost me roughly $150. But when I got home and showed my wife what I planned to do with all the pickets, we realized the tall pickets mixed with the short ones would look horrible. Now we have to figure something else out. We can't afford to get a new, taller fence, but whatever we do will cost us a few hundred dollars and plenty of time if we do it ourselves. So until Diva becomes arthritic and can't jump, or we can afford a brand-new fence, Diva's only going out in the yard on her leash, with me as an anchor. No more olympic-style hurdling for her! Unfortunately, I’ve found that even a DIY fence job still costs a decent amount of money.

We have a ~4-foot-high picket fence on the front edge of our backyard, next to our house, and our dog Diva keeps leaping over the fence. (At 8 years old, she’s no spring chicken - though apparently she does have springs for legs.)

So I bought 78 taller pickets to fill in the spaces between the old fence’s pickets. This cost me roughly $150. But when I got home and showed my wife what I planned to do with all the pickets, we realized the tall pickets mixed with the short ones would look horrible. Now we have to figure something else out.

We can’t afford to get a new, taller fence, but whatever we do will cost us a few hundred dollars and plenty of time if we do it ourselves. So until Diva becomes arthritic and can’t jump, or we can afford a brand-new fence, Diva’s only going out in the yard on her leash, with me as an anchor. No more olympic-style hurdling for her!

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