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LifestreamThe cotoneaster just had to go. Regrowth was spotty at best and it would have taken years for the hedge to reform. Not only was it a real bother to get the veritable mountain of entangled branches to the city dump, and uprooting the stumps by hand, but being such a hopeless tree hugger and melancholic the whole thing sort of irked me … a lot.
So, here is a first sort of final sketch of the proposed fence.
Building a virtual model, even of something as trivial as a fence, turned out to be extremely advantageous. In the end it will not only prevent a ton of wasted materials by more accurately anticipating demand, but it has also helped me to foresee about a dozen or so serious design flaws and conflicts. Enough hopefully so that the things I weren’t able to foresee can be patched up and glossed over. All in all not the simplest design, but the best I could come up with given the constraints of the walls and landscape. The basic requirements were that the fence would be double sided, have at least two different heights, leave no area exposed to wood rot and if possible extend down to cover the uglier parts of the retaining wall. The biggest hurdle remains to install and space the fence post brackets on that wall though. It’s a fair bit of concrete to drill through and because of the different levels, the posts that in turn decide the levels would have to be spot on for optimum aesthetics.
