Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Finale

Here it is, all done. I designed it to have no visible fasteners from the outside. I often think that in Malaysia, people spend big money getting contractors to build mega-bucks timber fences for them only to have the aesthetic spoilt by too many visible rivets/bolts. The devil's in the details.

The edges in the near side of the pic are irregular. It was intentional, and I wasn't sure how it would turn out. Either you like it or hate it.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Epi. 5

Fabricated the extensions for the horizonal members to connect them to the steel upright. 21 pieces in all and a major pain in the back.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Epi. 4

W.I.P Update... Installed some of the horizontal elements. Pretty straightforward... drill pilot hole, screw in stainless steel hex bolt.

Still need to finish the rest toward the bottom of the fence, and at the far end to connect to the other steel post.
Stay posted.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Epi. 3

Now that the old chainlink is down, we can move on to constructing the timber fence proper. This is the eventual goal... or something quite similar.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Epi. 2

This weekend I got around to removing the old chainlink fence to put up the new timber fence, but I got interrupted by rain. I managed to get the chainlink down, but only managed to get the main framework of the wooden fence up, which is the hardest part of the job anyway.

Chainlink fences are held up with these iron bolts, which have a habit of rusting through and fusing together so that it's impossible to get them off with a wrench.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Epi. 1

Over the weekend I managed to track down a timber yard in Puchong that sells resak wood, the wood of choice for outdoor applications as its very hard and very durable. 2 sizes are needed, 2x1 inches for vertical support columns and 1.5x1/2 inches for the horizontal strips.

Environmentally Responsible Crib Trickage

These days its all to do with the impact of your carbon footprint, renewable resources, etc.
In the light of the above, we resolve to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as we can to Trick our Crib as greenly as we can. (New word, heads up, Oxford)

Seeing as we're extending out the front of our house, and all the grilles are gonna go, that's a whole lot of iron...



...to use for constructing the metal framework for a 22ft wide by 10 ft high picket fence at the back of our house for security and privacy.

After cutting all the grilles to form, we should end up with this. As you all can see, it's really ngam-ngam :) And only 3 new steel bars are required for support.



Then we clad the iron framework with 8in x 10ft cemboard planks. Looks like wood but is not wood. Costs less than wood. Save trees summore.



And there you have the plan. Follow this blog for the execution, coming up when it does.