Happy 4th of July! Our way of celebrating was to start this whole demo process by building a temporary fence so that the dogs can still use their dog door but be contained once we tear down the garage.
The side yard area is where the dog door is, so we wanted to close the area off so they can still go outside even after we start demo. The fence ends at the garage, so once that comes down the yard won’t be fully enclosed anymore. The plan is to put up a fence, but during the demo and construction phases, we needed to make sure the dogs can’t get out.
the “before”
We started by cutting out a section of the trellis so that we could utilize the 4×4 posts and lattice for the fence. It was surprisingly easy! Alex actually could tear some of it out by hand because the deck was so rotten. It made me feel a lot better about the fact that the deck really does need to go.
there used to be trellis here!
rotten posts
We dug post holes and put the posts in place so that they lined up with an existing post on our fence. We used a piece of the skirting from the deck to run across the bottom after cutting it to size. Then we attached lattice panels to the posts and ran a 2×4 that we also recycled from the trellis. It wasn’t quite long enough so we used my new kreg jig to attach 2 pieces together to make it longer.
Aaanndd…ta-da! Our new temporary (totally free) fence!
Don’t mind all the chairs – we had to find a place to store all of the exterior furniture 🙂 Now we’re all ready to start the big demo!! We’ve got a dumpster arranged to come on Friday so hopefully will have good progress to share next week.
-h
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