Customer Reviews

Ortho's All About Fences & Gates

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This book really covers most everything you need to know to build a fence. Everything is covered in this book from picking out a fence design, through planning and building the fence, and installing gates. This is a wonderful book, one that helped me through installing a fence and gate at my own house. I highly recommend this book.

For basic fence building, this book is okay. It repeats much information, right down to the images, found in other fence books. Hmmm. But what's most frustrating about this book is the copious inclusions of photographs of fences and gates for which there are no designs. I'm not talking about exact designs, but rather guidelines for building the particular kind of fence; for instance, how to have the vertical pickets enclosed within lower and upper horizontal rails. No ideas provided. I actually called the publisher and asked, and got a run-around but no real answers except that because those photos are from private properties, they can't help. So why include them?

Definitely worth your 10 bucks if you want to put in a backyard fence. Covers all the different types of fences, and describes the advantages and disadvantages of each. Plenty of color photos of various fences, plus illustrations. My fence isn't built yet, but this book is what I plan on using as my primary guide.

Bought this book to help with the design and installation of a fence and gate across the front of my house. Purchased it based partly on some of the reviews that others had posted. Did not see much that helped me in my situation or that I could not figure out on my own.