Wooden fences - the traditional solution in a modern version

Since ancient times, wood has been the most affordable building material for making fences.

Today, many more, more practical and durable, have appeared, but wooden fences and fences are still popular due to their environmental friendliness, naturalness and excellent appearance, harmoniously fitting into both the natural and modern urban landscape.

Double-sided wooden fence

Advantages of wooden fences

Besides the fact that wood is the most eco-friendly, natural material, it also has many other advantages:

• A harmonious combination with the surrounding landscape, a feeling of comfort and homely warmth, which is so lacking for metal or stone fences.
• The ability to make a fence of wood with their own hands, since this material is easily processed and just as easily attached to the bearing supports without the use of complex tools.
• The ability to change color by staining.
• The tree does not heat up from the sun in hot weather, like stone or metal, therefore it is more comfortable for plants and people behind such fencing.

Green areas do not tolerate close proximity of solid metal fences, and feel fine next to wooden ones.

• Easy maintenance and repair.
• Finally, thanks to modern protective equipment used to process wood, wooden fences have become more durable.

Of course, like any other natural material, wood requires special care during the operation, as it is prone to rotting, drying, and destruction by pests. But if the production of all elements of the wooden fence was followed by instructions for their protection from harmful external influences, then the trouble with it will be quite a bit.

Council For the construction of wooden fences, it is better to choose coniferous wood, which is more resistant to atmospheric influences.

If you are not ready to regularly take care of a rather capricious natural material, put a fence under the tree from a profiled sheet or fiber-reinforced concrete on your site.

Modern technologies allow imitating the texture and color of natural wood of any species on the surface of these materials.

Features of the device of wooden fences

If before wooden it was possible to imagine only a village fence, now it is considered perhaps the most prestigious and beautiful. After all, any form and structure can be created from this material, combined with stone, brick, metal, concrete, etc.

And if we consider that today an increasing number of people prefer to build wooden houses in which it is so pleasant and useful to live, then their desire to create a single design of the entire backyard, in which the fence plays one of the main roles, is understandable.

Types of wood fences

To determine the appearance of the fence, you need to decide what you need it in the first place. After all, someone wants to reliably isolate themselves from other people's views, while others, on the contrary, show the beauty of their home and the site, while at the same time emphasizing it with an elegant and original fence.

In the first case, a solid fence is placed, which will protect you not only from the curiosity of others, but also from wind, noise and dust. In the second - a fence with gaps.

Both can be very different.

• Classic solid fence made of matched boards. They can be located in any direction - vertical, horizontal, diagonal.

Vertical version

For reference. Instead of boards or shteketin you can use straight, pointed columns on top. True, the price of such a paling will be quite high.

• Herringbone. Boards stacked overlap, horizontally, using spacers. Despite the solid opaque surface, such a fence is well blown.

Herringbone option (ladder)

• Chess. The first photo at the beginning of the article demonstrates a chess fence in a horizontal version. It can be either solid or any degree of transparency, depending on the width and frequency of the picket.
• Braids. Vertical or horizontal slats of such a fence, as it were, flow around the supports, resembling a wicker vine. Both sides of the wicker fence are equally beautiful.

Vertical braid

• Ranch. Previously, such a fence in the village was used for fencing gardens, livestock yards, and was made from raw boards. He still looks great in the background of the rural landscape. But for the front of the site often choose a flat, well-polished and processed boards.

Ranch fence

• Shelf - The most common type of wooden fence, which can be very different. You can vary the height and width of shtaketin, the distance between them, as well as their position relative to each other. And as a result, get a fence with a figured top edge or an intricate pattern.

The original fence from the fence

Watch the video on the site, and you will find many more options for beautiful fences, as well as learn how and when to install them.

Features of the device of fences between sites

You can make the decoration of the front part of the backyard that goes outside, to your own taste and in accordance with your desires. But if your site is adjacent to the neighboring, you will have to follow the rules for installing fences in the village or garden partnership.

They are installed by SNiP 30-02-97 and state that deaf barriers with a height of more than 1.5 meters between individual sections can be arranged only with the consent of the neighbors. Otherwise, metal and wood fences should be lattice or mesh, not obscuring foreign territory.

Conclusion

Wooden fences look very advantageous, aesthetically attractive and original. Of course, they require regular maintenance and periodical repairs, but the pleasure that their appearance causes is worth such small sacrifices. If you do not immediately regret the means and choose quality material, then your grandchildren will also admire the beautiful fence.