Brian H's Blog at HomeRefurbers.com http://homerefurbers.com/members/Hugheser/blog Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:15:21 GMT Privacy Fence http://homerefurbers.com/members/Hugheser/blog/7 Thanks to this:

We had to install this:

Like the deck I posted before, this is all cheap treated wood. My backyard isn’t huge but it’s big enough that the more exotic fencing was out of our price range. The important thing was to keep the dogs in our backyard which it thankfully does. This summer we may put on a stain/pretector on it to make it look nicer. We hope to put our house up for sale within a year or two so that’ll probably help.

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:15:21 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/Hugheser/blog/7 Brian H Front Deck #1: Front Deck http://homerefurbers.com/members/Hugheser/blog/6 At one time, we had a nice poured front porch. Unfortunately we had to rip it out thanks to poor drainage and nothing to keep water from pouring into our basement. After we got the wall sealed and new drainage in, I had to decide the best way to get a porch back on. I ended up going with a treated wood deck since it was pretty much the only thing we could afford at the time. Concrete wouldn’t have been much more expensive but I was worried about that basement wall. There were lots of cracks and I didn’t want to add any more horizontal pressure. Wood was really our only choice.

Deck

Since these pictures were taken about 2 years ago, we have finished up the landscaping, added a small 10×10 pond with waterfall, and added a pathway to do steps.
Planter
These planters were made with scrap 2×4s and left over planks from a privacy fence I put in the backyard.

I’ll try to remember to add some more recent pictures with the rest of the landscaping (mostly) finished.

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