October 5, 2007
How to Build a Dog Fence
Traditionally Dogs are kept in Kennels. These were outdoor fences. Kennels or fences are made from wood. Wood kennels are attractive and comfortable for dogs. Wood fences vary in styles and include stockade, picket, lattice, and post and rail. In spite of different styles of wooden fences all of them have three basic features, which is required for building a fence.
Common Features:
1) Post
2) Rails
3) Panels
Posts: Vertical element rooted firmly in the earth. Properly set posts will hold all the other components in place. They are the foundation wooden fences. Posts can be as high as the required height of fence or can be set higher for the sake of style.
Rails: Rails connect one post to the next. Rails are your horizontal components parallel to the ground. Panels will be attached to rails.
Panels (boards): The panels are the walls wooden fences of privacy type. In open wooden fence styles, such as the post and rail, there are no panels requiring less wooden blocks to build. In picket and the stockade style of wooden fence, panels are vertical components. Each of the unique fence design is due to its shape, especially at the top (e.g., some panels terminate in a point).
Indoors Kennel:
It is useful to have a kennel inside the house. Not only outer boundaries but also pets do require indoor boundaries, too. The indoor fence is the new innovation in dog fences. The indoor fence can
1. Keep dogs out of the trash
2. Restrict pets to kitchen
3. Stop pets from escaping outdoors
4. Keeps baby's room protected
5. Keep off pet from furniture
This is how you can build a kennel inside
1. Determine the height and length of the fence. It can be 28 inches or more tall.
2. Mark boards accordingly for pickets, then cut them with a saw.
3. Then sand the edges smooth and round off the corners.
4. Round off the tops of the pickets.
5. Fasten pickets to the horizontal rails
6. Paint if needed.
7. Connect the sides of the fence with a 1-inch utility hinge to allow easy moving around.
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