Exterior Fence Builders, Inc. Wood Picket Fence System – Your Local Area Atlanta Fencing Company

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To Wood Posts and Rail Systems

These barriers went from basic wood slats to an iconic element of the American curbside. Now a day a picket fence is constructed using 2- wooden pressure-treated pine 2 x 4’s between 2-4 x 4 pressure-treated pine posts, (ptp) posts cemented in using 1-60 bags of Quikrete. 1 x 4 x 4 wooden pickets about 13 per section if you’re going to have the spaced picket fence, using a 48” x 2’1/4’ level as your jig. That should get you decent spacing. This isn’t the only choice.

There are a growing number of low-maintenance options like vinyl, cellular PVC, metal, and composites. But if it’s a custom look you’re after, wood still offers the greatest number of picket shapes and styles, and it can be stained any color. This one remains the homeowner’s favorite, and for good reason: They come in enough different styles to suit any house, from formal to casual. The picket fence will always be roots planted squarely in utility: Picket Fences are used to keep your children and picket in your backyard as well as keep chickens in the yard and to protect the garden. Today, however, all fences using pickets are all called pickets

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4′ Residential Pressure Treated Pine Dog Ear Space Picket Fence

5′ Residential concave space picket fence installed using 4x4x8 French Gothic Posts

Wood-Spaced Picket Fences in Summery

The spaced picket fence is a historical design used for front and side yards. The faces of this colonial-style fence may be smooth, or rounded, or display the naturally rough, rounded sides of the log. They can be assembled as components or installed as a panel with several options for back rails. Typically, they are built as a mortise-and-tenon rail-and-post system.
Your local area will determine which species of wood are readily available. The primary species or groups of wood used in spaced picket fencing are: Western Red Cedar, Northern White Cedar, and White or Yellow wood Pressure-treated Treated Pine

Board Width:	3″
Board Thickness:	5/8″, 3/4″
Board Height:	4′, 5′, 6′, 8′
Board Topping:	Stockade
Board Grade:	Premium, Select, Standard
Board Surface:	Molded one face
Rail Width:	actual 3 1/2″, 3 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 4″ actual 2 1/2″ – nominal or stated size 3″
Rail Thickness:	actual 1 1/2″, 1 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 2″
Rail Length:	actual 8′, 10′
Rail Grade:	Standard and Better, #2
Rail Surface:	Rough, Smooth Four Sides
Rail Ends:	Plain, Doweled
Post Width:	actual 3 1/2″, 3 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 4″ actual 4 1/2″, 4 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 5″
Post Thickness:	actual 3 1/2″, 3 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 4″ actual 3 1/2″, 3 3/4″ – nominal or stated size 4″
Post Height:	6′, 7′, 8′
Post Toppings:	Flat, Beveled, French Gothic, Gothic, Post Caps in a variety of styles
Post Drilling:	2 Rail, 3 Rail
Post Grade:	#1, #2
Post Surface:	Rough, Surfaced Four Sides
Designs:	Spaced Picket Arch Spaced Picket Scalloped Spaced Picket

The Best Wood Child and Pet-Friendly Fence

So what are the best types of fences to protect your loved ones – whether they walk on two legs or four? If you have small children, fences, and gates can offer a real measure of security and peace of mind. Keep in mind that while fences can create a protective barrier from outside the yard, they are never a substitute for your attentiveness. A picket fence, however, lets not only everyone else around your home within the subdivision see from all four corners of the backyard. In essence, you have a neighborhood watch program especially when you apply the triune understanding starting with 1: Rodney King who said: ” Can’t we all just get along!” that applied with 2: Franklin Fitzgerald Selvages of Exterior Fence Builders, Inc.’s idiom of ” Good neighbors make better fences” concept will almost always end up with, in the words of Robert Frost 3: Good fences making good neighbors. Thereby creating the best neighborhood watch program in the whole entire universe. Outside of the 1 true triune who was and is here from the beginning ♪♪and who has the whole world in his hand., He’s got the itty bitty babies in his hands He’s got the whole world in his hand, He’s got the whole world in his hands♪♪