How To Build a Modern Horizontal Privacy Fence - DIY Friendly Project

what's going on everybody welcome back to the vlog this is going to be a little bit of a different one we're doing a modern fence install this is phase one of a larger project where we're going to be redoing this whole back area but we're waiting for zoning approval for that so for right now we're just doing this really cool modern fence this is a project that you're going to be able to diy this isn't super complicated so i'm going to walk you through the whole thing stay tuned make sure you hit subscribe make sure you hit subscribe let's go so the first thing that we're going to do here is get all of our holes marked out we're going to be using wood 4x4 set and concrete it's going to be a pretty heavy fence so we want to make sure that everything is dug down below the frost line with plenty of concrete around that to keep our posts stable you want to call for a utility mark out so we have that and we do have a gas line that runs right through here this is an instance where it's a really good thing that we got that utility mark out because we need to be very careful with a couple of these holes make sure that we don't hit this gas line because then we're going to have a lot of trouble on our hands we don't want that string line is going to be your best friend with this you have to set one of these up when you're setting posts it's an easy way to get them in a perfectly straight line got my stake here we've measured out on that side i'm going to get that post set and then we'll run a string line and we have our first run set up ready to go so we want this string line to be really nice and tight so you're going to pull all the slack out of it and i'll show you how we wrap it around here so that we can take it off easily but it's gonna stay nice and tight so we're pulling it tight we're gonna wrap it around and go around twice and then you take this and we're gonna slide it over top of that wrap we'll do it again and now super easy and then i can just take that off in like two seconds when we're done with it roll this back up and we're not wasting any string all right so now we're just digging our holes i marked them out we're doing posts every six feet here now to set up this line coming straight off of the house we set a pin all the way down there measured we were about an inch and a half away from the foundation and then pulled the string out and checked it at the corner made sure we're still an inch and a half out so we have a straight line coming off the foundation intersecting with our other string line so that's going to be our corner and now we just dig the holes and luckily uh ground's pretty soft so it shouldn't take too long then we'll get the set in post [Music] like i said make sure you get a utility mark out because our gas line cuts right through here so with these two posts i'm going to dig them out with this just loosen the dirt a little bit at a time it's worth spending an extra 10 minutes on this hole then possibly hitting a gas line and exploding the whole neighborhood we do not want that pat do we want that exactly we want to blow it up with this beautiful fence design but not with natural gas so we're being extra careful right here all right so we've got our first hold on there hot shots all right we've got all the holes dug now we're setting the first post so we're going to start with all the corners and then we'll connect the string line to the post and we'll set all the intermediate posts so we just want to set this so that it's just hitting this string line at our mark i made a little mark on the string line for our distance from the house so we just want to make sure it's level on both sides just as it's hitting that mark so we've already got this one set and then we just put a little bit of dirt in the bottom of the hole tamper around it that'll help hold the bottom in place then we can fill it up with the concrete put it in there real gently at first to uh make sure you don't move the bottom of the post so we're doing two bags of concrete per hole it's 160 pounds of concrete and make sure that your holes are deep enough below the frost line we went three feet here so we'll get those two bags in there around the bottom of the post and then we'll backfill the hole with the dirt and then we can tamp that in there that's going to keep it nice and plumb while this concrete sets and we'll be good to go pack come nice and close check out i'm level right there now check out the string line we're just barely touching that that's when you know it's good what's up [Music] now that we have all the posts in i like to go around check all of our posts make sure they're nice and level i can make tiny little adjustments but everything's sitting really good we got the concrete we got the dirt on top tamped around the hole so once that concrete sets up these things will be locked in for justice now we're waiting on some of our fencing materials but we have the post set everything is good so we can just run with this when we come back and uh that's when we'll get to the cool design stuff it's going to get interesting well it's good that was like a home improvement thing you know the neighbor guy anyway okay we have all of our lumber here finally so we're back on this fence job good thing that we got these posts installed before it froze because now it's super cold out the ground's frozen we would not be able to get these in right now so come check it out we're doing a modern fence install here so it's all horizontal boards and the design that we have going on here is six two by sixes six two by fours and then we'll do six two by twos up top so they're all gapped a half inch and that's going to give us a six foot fence nice clean modern looking fence install here pretty simple to do and we're using the pro wood dora color so you can see this is a regular treated 4x4 it's got that yellow look to it this has more of a brown look to it this part goes pretty quick let me show you how we're installing it so we just start by leveling the first board making sure it's nice and flat and level and then we just go up from there we cut some half inch spacers so once we have that [Music] easy peasy we're going to go back at the end and also add screws to this but every post is going to be covered with 1x4 trim so you won't see any of the fasteners you can see here we left these overhanging this post why did we do that sean is it where are you gonna screw the next one to well what we're gonna do is we're gonna get a line there that's why i put the nails right in the middle we want to put our nails over to the side so we don't mess that up because now i'm right in the in the cut line we're just running these long once we get them all installed get a chalk line cut these down and then we'll start halfway on this post and keep running this way we don't have to make a bunch of cuts we don't want to measure it we just throw them up here let them run long cut them in the air take these nails out that i just put in then cut them should go pretty quick [Music] [Applause] so we're just getting you know a pretty an approximate cut here all of this is going to be covered with trim so none of these cuts are going to be exposed we don't have to be super precise with those we just want to cut off the excess keep us moving [Music] we're putting up the last couple pieces here and you can see we've transitioned to two by twos and we just ripped two by fours in half so we have six two by sixes six two by fours and six two by twos all spaced a half inch so it gives it a nice little dimension there one thing that we've done here that i always like to do on privacy screens and privacy walls is staggering our layout so check it out come over here so we started on this side we set this side three quarters of an inch lower so that all the boards are offset so when you look through this gap you're seeing the back of this board so it's almost totally solid certain angles you can still see through it a little bit but for the most part it's nice and solid and really private this is all going to be finished with some 1 by trim so as soon as we get these up we're about ready to put on all of our trim and that's going to go over every post location so all of our screws and everything will be hidden oh that give them a pan that looks so good give them a pan [Music] yeehole [Music] we've set all of these with ring shank nails using a nail gun is going to make it a lot faster but i'm going to go back and put one three inch screw into every board so now it's nailed and screwed it's going to be locked in for justice and once again we're going to be covering all of these post locations where anything is screwed or nailed with some 1 by trim so you won't see any of that we're getting pretty close all right so the last step here does this look weird yeah all right so the last step in finishing off this fence is we're covering up all of our screws and our nails with a little bit of 1x4 trim so all i'm doing getting this set up here and we just want it to be even with the 4x4 that's behind it so looks good there [Music] nice little easy way to hide all of our screws so that's pretty much it for how you build one of these privacy fences privacy screens nice modern look really simple to do if you follow these very simple instructions so make sure you hit subscribe and until next time this is premiere outdoor living