Hi,
Hopefully you guys here can tell me if my plan is feasible.
Currently I have a well battered fence which I believe is shared with my neighbour and he thinks it is mine. Anyway it is made with 3ft high concrete posts with 3ft boards slotted into them - the posts are leaning where they have been pushed by the roots of my neighbour's tree. Anyway the trees are coming down to stump level and I now want to improve the fence. Now rather than dig up all the concrete posts and re-align them I wondered whether I can baton some timber to the posts to extend them up to 6ft - to the batons I then want to attach arris rails and then featheredge boards onto those. Now if I do the arris rail flush with the posts I could then featheredge along the whole length of the fence and effectively hide the leaning posts behind the featheredge. Does this make sense? Would it work?
Now if the above is do-able then I end up with nice fence with no wonky posts on display - however being neighbourly I wanted to offer my neighbour the chance to have the wonky posts hidden (but only if he is prepared to pay) - so rather than arris rails could I attach horizontal batons instead of arris rails - and then fit featheredge boards to both sides of the fence - hence the wonky posts are hidden on both sides.
Bit of a long question I know - but in my mind this sounds like a potential way of making a nice looking fence without messing around with the concrete posts. Am I missing an obvious flaw in the plan.
Cheers for any input.
Hopefully you guys here can tell me if my plan is feasible.
Currently I have a well battered fence which I believe is shared with my neighbour and he thinks it is mine. Anyway it is made with 3ft high concrete posts with 3ft boards slotted into them - the posts are leaning where they have been pushed by the roots of my neighbour's tree. Anyway the trees are coming down to stump level and I now want to improve the fence. Now rather than dig up all the concrete posts and re-align them I wondered whether I can baton some timber to the posts to extend them up to 6ft - to the batons I then want to attach arris rails and then featheredge boards onto those. Now if I do the arris rail flush with the posts I could then featheredge along the whole length of the fence and effectively hide the leaning posts behind the featheredge. Does this make sense? Would it work?
Now if the above is do-able then I end up with nice fence with no wonky posts on display - however being neighbourly I wanted to offer my neighbour the chance to have the wonky posts hidden (but only if he is prepared to pay) - so rather than arris rails could I attach horizontal batons instead of arris rails - and then fit featheredge boards to both sides of the fence - hence the wonky posts are hidden on both sides.
Bit of a long question I know - but in my mind this sounds like a potential way of making a nice looking fence without messing around with the concrete posts. Am I missing an obvious flaw in the plan.
Cheers for any input.