FENCE SYSTEM BLOG

A fence pre-installation document pack is four documents. A site plan showing the runs and their fixed points. A post schedule listing every post with its type and position. A gate sheet specifying each opening in full. And a material list rolled up from the other three. Together they let a dealer quote accurately, a supplier pick a complete order, and an installer start work without spending the first morning rediscovering the site. Each document has a small set of required

Plan the nodes first, then fill the lines. Corners, slope breaks, and gate openings are fixed points whose post positions are dictated by geometry, ground, and gate width, not by your preferred spacing. Set those positions on the plan first, then divide each straight run between nodes into equal spacings that fit your system's panel logic. Working the other way, spacing first, is how layouts end up with an awkward short panel jammed against a gate post. This article covers th

What can stay depends on one physical change. A solid privacy infill catches far more wind than an open one, so every component gets re-judged against a heavier load, not against how it looks today. Posts with sound, deep footings at spacing your new infill supports can often stay. Rails and brackets sized for pickets or mesh usually can't. The infill itself always changes, that's the conversion, and the gate almost always changes with it. The audit below walks each component