If you plan on having a flower bed, fresh sod, or other more delicate plants around your fence, you will want to install your fence first. This is because the contractors installing the fence could damage your landscaping while putting up the fence. You don't want all of your hard work to be destroyed.
Space your shrubs and plants slightly away from it. A curving bed of plants rather than a straight line softens the straight lines of the fence. For great visual appeal, layer the flower beds and plants along your fence. Arrange short plants in the front, medium-sized in the middle, and the tallest ones in the back.
Sod should be the last item to go in. There are some very good reasons for this order: First, If you lay the sod or put in grass seed before the fence is in, your grass may be damaged from the equipment and excavation process.
If you don't want to deal with bad weather or wait for your contractor's time to free up, spring and autumn are the best time to install a fence.
Unless you get a general contractor, you'll need both a concrete company and a fencing company. If I were doing this, I'd prep the footings for the fence first, then lay the concrete, and finish with the fencing. Using a bull float to finish the concrete would be extremely difficult in a 5x7 fenced in area.
DO Employ a Base Gravel Layer. If a fence post fails without any sign of a pest infestation, it's likely that the failure was caused by moisture that rotted the wood over time. To help slow such deterioration, add pea gravel or crushed stone to the bottom of the posthole.
Overall, the cheapest time to install a fence is during the off season. That means fall, winter, or (very) early spring. Late spring and summer tend to be peak times, and it can be more difficult to schedule the fence installation company you want.
Avoid the Rush
The peak seasons for fences and landscaping are spring and summer, which is one reason why fall and winter are actually the best time to install a fence.
Generally it is best to lay sod during the active growing period of your turfgrass species: cool-season grasses do best when planted during the early fall or early spring and the warm-season grasses do best when planted mid-late spring.
Your new sod lawn needs time to establish a firm root system before you use it as you did your old lawn. If you walk on your sod before its roots have established, you're lessening your chances of success.
Wooden Pockets for Filling in Gaps
To fill the space between the fence and the ground, use horizontal pieces of wood rather than bricks. Cut the wooden boards uniformly after measuring them. This is one of the best choices if you have a wooden fence because it will blend in flawlessly.
The 'quick' answer is that the finished, or good side of the fence faces the outside of your property, visible to neighbors and the outside world. That being said, the fence posts (or poles), rails, and other hardware are installed on the inside of the fence line and face you.
The hardest part of any fence installation is digging the postholes. The level of difficulty, not surprisingly, depends on the fence length and hardest of the soil. For a short fence, use a manual posthole digger.
Nail the top and bottom rails to the center-line of the first post and keep proceeding until all posts are nailed from top to bottom. Remember to follow the contours of the ground by always nailing the fence rails and follow the contours of the ground by nailing the fence rails in the same positions on the fence rails.
Rights and Permissions. If you do not own the fence and it resides within your neighbour's property, you will likely need their permission to attach anything to it.
The time commitment needed varies by fence type. Welded and woven wire, both sold in mesh rolls, should take a similar amount of time to install. For 100 feet of linear fence, this is typically about 15 hours of labor. For a two-person crew, that's a full day's worth of work.
If there are more than one rock or stone or if there are a series at regular intervals, rocks were used to indicate a turning or stopping point. Long before marking chalk, paint, strip markers and GPS were available, ranchers and farmers used stones as visible place or reference point markers.
In most applications, a wooden fence should be mounted at least two inches off the ground. Your posts and rot boards (if you want to mount them) should be the only fence components that come into contact with the ground. Wood pickets are never meant to touch it.
The best recommendation for setting fence posts of any kind is to always secure all metal fenceline poles in cement, plus all wooden corner and gate posts as a minimum. Doing so creates a footer that prevents the post from rising out of the ground or leaning for any reason.