Two fences, face to face, is kinda silly, no?
No, it's really just common sense.
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Fence facing etiquette
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You haven't watched too many kids, these days.
Outside, man, outside!
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There are not only laws governing the orientation, but also the height. In my town the fence can be 6' high from the rear property line to the back line of the house, 4' from the back line of the house to the front line of the house with no fence past the front line of the house to the street.
For those with corner lots or other odd sized lots (or houses) this can be a real problem and often requires a long drawn out exception process. We have a friend that lives on a corner lot which has been fenced in since before the ordinance was put into place. When a drunk driver destroyed a large portion of the fence, he went to the town to get permission to replace the entire fence since the remaining sections were pretty old and wouldn't match the new sections.
The town pushed back and said that the only reason that they were going to allow him to replace the destroyed sections was because he was grandfathered in, but replacing the remainder was considered a new installation and would have to meet existing codes - meaning no fence at all. They reluctantly relented when most of the neighborhood showed up at the board meeting and convinced them that we did not want to look at half an old fence and half a new one. One neighbor actually put together a photo-shopped poster of the 2 versions - making the old/ new combination look really bad - which probably helped sway the board.
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Not really. My backyard is offset from the 2 yards behind me, approximately 2/3, 1/3. The 1/3 neighbor had some nice board-on-board fencing, the 2/3 neighbor had chain link.
I bought the same style board-on-board fence and installed it face to face with the chain link fence to hide it, to match the other 1/3 and to provide more privacy.
Point being, two fences, face to face, isn't silly if there's a valid reason.
Now that, I agree with.
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Maybe harry moved behind him. Sounds like him, anyway.
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Alternate pickets.
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Not when the twit of a building inspector was measuring the distance to the property line, too. [I think it had to be 2'- which really crowded the guys driveway & wouldn't have bothered my brother if it was right on the line-- but rules is rules.] The neighbor was aware of that rule-- [and maybe the other one too, but just figured if they were agreeable it would be OK]
Jim
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If you go back to my original post I asked if fence facing etiquette was different in the UK. It may be.
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It appears that is what he is doing with the sides. I can only see the inside of the sides. See:
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To those discussing access, the men have already trampled my garden. And even if the post is fully on his side of the property line, the concrete will spill onto my side. But I'm not gong to complain about these.
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True dat!
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Alternate pickets on a chain link or stockade fence?
As I said, pretty on both sides can be accomplished fairly easily with some fence styles, but not with all.
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Good grief. There is no "good side" of chain link fencing.
Different subject.
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Chain link has no good side. Stockade, why not?
You can come close. A close-picket fence can be mixed pretty transparently with a alternating pickets. A neighbor on one side replaced the fence (it was probably "mine" but did it before I moved in) with alternating pickets. It doesn't look that bad.
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Yes. Like this one:
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Yeah. Sorta like that, though it looks like that one has a rail on the top rather than pickets.
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So they require a 4 foot corridor between property fences???? Who mows that? Who looks after it? And they want taxes on it too????? Maroons er Macroons - no MORONS - that's the word I was looking for!!
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Of course there is. By code the posts must go inside the yard. That makes one side "good" and the other side not.
You could say that there is no good side of board-on-board fence, but for the same reason, there is. The posts must go on the owner's side.
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Sounds like it is for deer control. There are three ways to fence deer out:
(1) Make it too tall and they can't jump over.
(2) Make it opaque. They won't jump if they don't know what is on the other side.
(3) Have parallel fences with no space for them to land in between, and wide enough that they can't clear both in the same jump.
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Sucks even more to need a fence. Nearest to me is four properties up. Never had a problem with dogs or kids.
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Good fences make good neighbors. OTOH, there are only two houses on this street (and large lots anyway) so I have no neighbors to improve. ;-)