Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build [Paperback]

Editors of Creative Homeowner (Author), Glee Barre (Designer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2002

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.

Editorial Reviews

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 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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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner (April 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580110940
• ISBN-13: 978-1580110945
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but not particularly comprehensive, August 16, 2005

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Andrew Abrahamowicz (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build (Paperback)

I purchased this book hoping that it would include a detailed explanation of how to build a fence; unfortunately, this book does not contain such details.

What this book does include is a general explanation of fence building concepts, lots of colour photos, and some step-by-step photo sequences; however it is brief on different fence construction techniques, in part because it tries to focus on all types of fences: wood, metal, and plastic. There is a section on building a gate, but again, it's not very comprehensive. In my fence building, I relied more upon the experience of others, and on examining existing fences to understand how they were put together. That's not to say that this book was not useful; but it certainly left most of the research to be done elsewhere using this is a very high-level guide.

31 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step-by-step how-to instructions for 11 complete projects, August 11, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build (Paperback)

Fences & Gates: Plan, Design, Build is a straightforward, no-nonsense, "user friendly" guide to planning, designing, and building aesthetic and practical enclosures for one's own property. More than 400 full color photographs clearly illustrate step-by-step how-to instructions for eleven complete fence projects in wood, metal, and vinyl in this fine reference for do-it-yourself creators of all skill levels. Readers will learn how to layout fences on flat or sloped ground, how to install solid posts to support the fence, how to build curved fences, how to design and install the classic picket fence, how to design and build with decorative lattice, and how to finish and maintain fences. Also highly recommended "do-it-yourself" titles from Deck Designs (#277369); Creative Homeowner Is Decks (#277162); Yard & Garden Furniture: Plans & Step-By-Step Projects (#277462); Gazebos & Other Outdoor Structures (#27713); What's In Style: Decks (#277183).

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fences & Gates: Plan, Design , Build, January 9, 2007

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Christopher Cooke (Sparks, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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I was looking for a book strictly on building gates, but this book was helpful and provided some needed information.