Wood is such a magnificent building material, in my opinion. It’s strong, it’s beautiful, it’s easy to cut and shape, and it can be used to create delicious eye candy both inside and outside your home ...

Preservative-treated timber fence posts have developed a pretty dire reputation over the past decade or so. Countless farmers have shelled out thousands for these products, gone to the expense of ...

Your fence probably did not fail because the lumber was terrible or the weather unusually harsh. It most likely failed because of how you set the posts in the ground. When you lock wood into a wet, ...

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The knowledge gap between pros and homeowners is costing fences years of life.

It’s hard to beat the beauty of natural wood fences, but one of their weaknesses is the posts that support them — however, the experts at Fence-All have a solution. “There’s a connection between the ...

Q. What is the preferred method to set fence posts? My 5-foot-tall solid-picket privacy fence has had some issues over the past 10 years. The latest problem is posts set in concrete that have snapped.

DEAR TIM: I’ve got a 5-foot-6-inch tall wood privacy fence with very little gap between the vertical wood pieces. When I built the fence I used 4-by-4 posts in between the wood panels. The posts were ...

March 09, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Big Easy Fence Company, a fencing contractor serving residential and commercial ...

It’s hard to beat the beauty of natural wood fences, but one of their weaknesses is the posts that support them — however, the experts at Fence-All have a solution. “There’s a connection between the ...