Review
"[Fences & Gates] is loaded with excellent color photography, step-by-step sequences and clear illustrations... If you'll be fence building this summer, this book is an essential..."
--Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics
May 2003



Book Description
Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build is a comprehensive guide for designing, building, and maintaining a fence designed to provide privacy, security, and beauty to a home's landscape. The book offers a practical combination of design, planning, and construction information. All types of fences and gates are covered, including pickets, split-rails, board designs, and more. Wood fences and gates are featured, but there are also chapters on vinyl, chain-link, and other utilitarian systems, such as underground electric pet fences. Individual chapters explain material options and show how to install, finish, and repair many types of posts, rails, and gates with step-by-step photo sequences.



Back Cover Copy
This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about designing, building, and maintaining all types of fences and gates, including pickets, split-rails, board designs, and more.
- Over 400 full-color photographs
- 11 complete fence projects in wood, metal, and vinyl
- 28 additional detailed, step-by-step how-to photo sequences

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Fences & Gates: Pan, Design, Build is aimed at homeowners who would like to install a fence on their property to provide privacy, security, and beauty, or to contain domesticated animals. Anyone who has considered installing a fence can use this book to determine what kind of fence to choose and how to erect it. The book offers a practical combination of design, planning, and construction information. All types of fences are covered, including traditional picket styles and more modern board fences. Wood fences and gates are featured, but there are also chapters on vinyl, chain-link, and other utilitarian systems, such as underground electric pet fences. Individual chapters explain material options and show with step-by-step photo sequences how to install, finish, and repair many types of posts, rails, and gates.

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