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re: Am I being too picky about a new fence construction? Pics inside.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:10 am to terd ferguson
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:10 am to terd ferguson
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just buy boards and cover your side for consistency. That is an easy Saturday job.
So pay for the shite work and then spend more time and money to fix the shite work? frick that.
NO! You didn't read my previous post where I said to not even pay the guy for that work and demand he remove the whole thing. I was solely commenting on the issue of the alternating side design with that second post. To be more clear, if you got a legit fence built but HOA required the initial construction to be that fugly alternating panel design, I would buy boards and cover the alternating panels on my side for consistency.
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Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:13 am to PoppaD
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Im not saying he screwed you but he screwed you. I had my fence replaced this spring. I live in the Austin area and things are pretty expensive over here. I payed $17 a foot for a cedar fence with pressure treated post. You should be able to get a similar deal in Houston. I dont know what you do now that he used pine, but i would ask for a deal to pull down the pine pickets and replace with cedar because he lied to you. Eta- that 17 per foot is a total cost of materials and labor. No extra added on. My bill was x number of feet times 17.
I don't know... I'm reading a thread here on ShaggyTexas, and this guy said he paid $23/ft for his 6' pre-treated pine fence.
https://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/30657-How-much-is-reasonable-for-a-new-fence-**Update**-(-amp-TY
Maybe you got a really good deal?
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:14 am to PrimeTime Money
I built fences for a very well established and reputable company while in high school and through college and have family members who own another fence company. Yours isn't typical of what is normally constructed. Of course, if the client wants something specific....... BTW, the pine fences I see around town look like a gump in need of braces. 
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:19 am to PrimeTime Money
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Maybe you got a really good deal?
I worked a few fence guys against each other. Did the normal get multiple bids thing and negotiate.
I will tell you no company i spoke with qouted more than $22 a foot cedar fence on the first bid. I worked them down from there.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:19 am to PrimeTime Money
Garbage like this is the reason I do 99% of work myself. Saves money and I know it'll be done right.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:23 am to PrimeTime Money
please report back after you tell this dude his work sucked and you wont pay unless it is fixed.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:31 am to jbgleason
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HOA required the initial construction to be that fugly alternating panel design
I'm thinking the HOA really meant batten board construction where every other BOARD is opposite the other. Never saw anything like in the photos before.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:32 am to whoisnickdoobs
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won't the vertical boards cover up the crooked horizontal boards when they are done?
This...unless they are really leaving it like that but I can't imagine they would.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:36 am to PrimeTime Money
If they used prebuilt panels from Home Depot/Lowes it's going to look like shite. I had a new hand built 200' total fence put in last month with 3" pickets individually installed contoured to the ground and screwed to 2X4 crossbeams and cemented in poles. A rock solid fence and well worth $3500
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:40 am to PrimeTime Money
That's what your complaining about? How about that god awful design flaw of rotating sections of plank. That's a cheap trailer park design.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:44 am to ihometiger
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That's what your complaining about? How about that god awful design flaw of rotating sections of plank. That's a cheap trailer park design.
Once again thats the way they are all over the Houston area. I noticed this at my brothers house years ago and asked what was up with it and he just said its how it needed to be done. I then noticed it everywhere.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 12:01 pm to dr smartass phd
quote:They didn't use pre-built panels. Poles are cemented as well. They just haven't done a good job.
If they used prebuilt panels from Home Depot/Lowes it's going to look like shite. I had a new hand built 200' total fence put in last month with 3" pickets individually installed contoured to the ground and screwed to 2X4 crossbeams and cemented in poles. A rock solid fence and well worth $3500
Posted on 6/28/16 at 12:39 pm to dartman
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I'm thinking the HOA really meant batten board construction where every other BOARD is opposite the other. Never saw anything like in the photos before.
I agree with this
Posted on 6/28/16 at 1:27 pm to dartman
quote:Not true. The entire neighborhood is like this. The neighborhood was built around 1996 and that is how the original fences were. Here is a picture of a section of the old, original fence that they have not done yet:
I'm thinking the HOA really meant batten board construction where every other BOARD is opposite the other. Never saw anything like in the photos before.
It's not just my neighborhood. There are many neighborhoods in Houston like this.
I don't really know what this style is called.. but if you type in "neighbor fence" into Google, here are some results that you get:
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Posted on 6/28/16 at 1:43 pm to PrimeTime Money
Honestly looks like shite. looks like they're using the prefab sections from Home Depot. Don't pay a dime until its to your satisfaction.
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