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| Posted: 12 Jan 2016 08:59 AM PST What Is A Board-On-Board Fence?A board-on-board fence is pretty much the only way to get true privacy from a wood fence. People that are considering getting a wood privacy fence often have the misconception that it will provide them with complete privacy, but that’s not the case. If you get close to a typical privacy fence, you will see that there’s space between the pickets allowing you to see between them, and there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. The main reason for the space between the pickets is the fact that wood shrinks as it dries out and treated lumber is rarely ever completely dried out when you purchase it. Therefore, even if your fence is 100% private when it is first built, it will probably end up with spaces between each picket. In addition to shrinkage, you also have to take in to consideration that most privacy pickets don’t cost a whole lot, because they’re not a high-grade of wood. This means that they’re often rough and usually are not completely straight. This makes it very difficult to get the pickets to fit close enough together at the top and bottom so that you can’t see between them at all.  Board on Board Fence The best way to remedy these problems is to install a board-on-board fence. It doesn’t matter if the boards aren’t perfectly straight or shrink, you will get complete privacy. This is because this type of fence doesn’t get its privacy by butting the pickets together. It’s achieved by covering the space between each picket with another picket. It starts out being built just like a typical privacy fence. The posts are installed in the same manner. Then, the runners (horizontal 2×4’s that the pickets get attached to) are installed like usual. The differences start when the pickets begin to get installed. Instead of placing each picket right next to the previous one, they are spaced around two inches apart on average. At this point, it looks like a regular picket fence that you can obviously see through with ease. What gives it total privacy is the next step. This is when another layer of pickets are added with the center of them placed directly over the gaps between the pickets from the first layer. There’s also another style of board-on-board fence that most people aren’t familiar with. This one resembles siding on a house. Instead of 2 layers of pickets, there’s only one layer with this version. It’s made by having each picket slightly overlap the previous picket by an inch or two. When it’s done, there won’t be any spaces that people can peek through. It also doesn’t require quite as much wood as the other style. You will want to keep in mind that these types of fences will cost you a little more than the average privacy fence. This is because they require more material and take longer to build. Although, they are significantly less expensive than most other types of fences that give complete privacy such as vinyl, brick, stone, etc. If you want complete privacy from your fence, board-on-board is going to be the most economical and efficient way to achieve while improving the look of your property. There are some other alternatives such as using tin that would cost less but won’t look near as nice. |
| Ideas For Raised Flower Beds Reviews Posted: 11 Jan 2016 08:58 PM PST Ideas for Raised Flower BedsEach homeowner certainly wants a comfortable home, so that they and their family enjoy for staying at home. There are many ways that can be done to make the house into a cozy atmosphere and beautiful. One of them is presenting the greens of plants on the courtyard. You can leverage your home courtyard become a beautiful garden to relax, play and hang out with the family. Owning a house that is surrounded by a beautiful garden in the front yard, side or back of the house become a goal almost every homeowner. Park on the courtyard that was filled with a wide variety of plant has a very important role. In addition to serving as the greening which beneficial for health, also give charm and color which make the house look more beautiful and interesting.  Ideas-for-Raised-Flower-Beds But make the garden as we want very difficult if the land around our house belongs to the critical land, due to the critical land difficult to be planted. But this time you don’t have to worry if your house is located in the critical land. You can still create a garden around your home with import the top layers of soil from elsewhere that fertile. Then you can put the fertile soil in bed raised to preserve its fertility and moisture. Raised bed shapes resembling the above ground pools, but raised bed not filled with water but it is filled with fertile soil. A layer of fertile soil is placed in a raised bed in order to it is not eroded by water, so the nutrients contained in the soil remains awake. Raised bed lots found in a barren area. The presence of raised flower beds really helps people who want to plant the crops in arid places. The following will explain about ideas for raised flower beds. There are several techniques that you can do to make raised beds. In addition, this type of raised beds also varies such as:
Make a raised bed with a rectangular shape, width about 1-1.2 meters and its edging limited with boards, wood or stone to prevent erosion of top soil due to the rain. Beds can be filled with topsoil or compost which has been prepared.
Make high raised beds and filled it with top soil or fertile soil. Create a form similar to the key hole in the middle of raised beds for mildewing the organic waste.
Raised beds have been given the barrier, filled with organic materials which rich in carbon and nitrogen interchangeably up to its height about 1-1.5 meters. Then cover it with a tarp and leave for 1-2 months so that the organic ingredients are mixed and blended. After the organic ingredients merges, the height of pile will go down. With this you don’t have to haul topsoil or compost from somewhere else.
This system is similar to lasagna gardening, but hugelculture uses the wood that starts to rot on the bottom of raised beds. The wood will serve as a backup repository for water like a sponge. This wood will also gradually decayed into nutrients for plants.  raised-flowerbeds  raised-flower-bed-design-ideas Raised flower beds can also apply in a terracing system when building the park in the hills area in your home. Terracing system not only suitable for making rice fields and fields, but also suited for the construction of parks, residential and tourist locations. Terracing is applied to prevent the occurrence of landslides in the area which tilts or Hill. Terracing system is causing water rain down into the ground not directly lining the top of the soil. With using terracing, water have a chance to seep into the ground first before pouring into the ground at lower levels. In addition to preventing the occurrence of landslides, terracing enrich underground water supplies. |
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