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Fence makeover for the pool area

ProjectPete
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Fence makeover for the pool area

Unsurprisingly, I'm not a fan of colourbond fencing, and particularly not the cream colour the estate decided to go with.

Again unsurprisingly, given my love for timber, I thought "Why don't we just cover it in wood?!?". So off I went to my friend's timber mill (a 7hr round trip) to pick up 800kg of freshly cut Marri wood. (I've painted the remainder of the fence shale grey which I'm much happier with)

I framed it with treated pine and staggered the rough sawn Marri across the lot for a rustic and 'cosy' effect.

Took an average of 4mins to file the rough edges and oil each piece of wood and there are over 100 pieces in the project. Add to that the time to frame and fix the pieces to the frame (particularly hard with slightly mishapen wood (rustic)) and deal with the Perth heat lately, it was a BIG project - but we're stoked with the end product.

BEFORE
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DURING
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AFTER (excuse the pool cover and noodles)

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tgunning
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Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Brilliant, thanks Jason

Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Can’t wait to see it!

Muz
Getting Established

Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Wow......

Jason
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Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

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Old-gal24
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Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

@ProjectPete   I'm mad about timber, so love what you did with this fence.. Awesome.  

 

Old gal

NeelamM
Finding My Feet

Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Hi @ProjectPete, Great job! My partner has bought the bamboo herringbone screens off Bunnings. We bought treated pine to drill into our colour bond as the first step but we can't seem to drill the treated pine into the colorbond. Do you know what the issue may be/the right screws to purchase? 

 

Thanks! 

Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

You should fix your 70x35 treated pine frame to the top and bottom rails with these screws. You'll probably struggle to do it with a drill driver. Impact driver is best or a hammer drill should do.

 

And you need to clamp the timber to the Colorbond as close to your drilling point as possible because once the screw penetrates the timber and begins drilling into the steel it'll have resistance and will push the timber off the fence.

 

Hope this helps.

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Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Maybe you can answer a question for me - we’ve been told that our pool has to be at least 3m away from the house but this one doesn’t look like it is?

Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Hi @Julieg9426,

 

Let me mention @ProjectPete, so he is alerted to your question. I'll be interested in hearing his thoughts as my mother wants to install a pool that will be quite close to her house.

 

Mitchell

 

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Re: Fence makeover for the pool area

Few factors affecting offset @Julieg9426 including depth of pool, soil type/conditions and even council.

 

To dig/install closer to house/walls/boundaries you can use 

 CGI (Chemical Grout Injection) along the house/wall/boundary to reinforce the earth for digging. Also get engineer certification.

 

Hope this helps.

 

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