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James Daulton

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I have a five foot fence around my pool currently. One side of the pool area borders a neighbor with nice, tall arborvitae trees that provided excellent privacy from said neighbor. That is, until a new neighbor moved in and decided to remove said trees. Now one side of our previously private pool area is not so private. Wifey is besides herself over this, and I dislike our new "closeness" with the neighbors as well. To combat the issue, at least temporarily, I procured a six feet high by 50 feet long mesh blackout screen to affix to the fence and provide the much desired privacy.

My issue is that the mesh is 6 feet high and the fence is only 5 feet high, and the mesh connects via gromets at the top and bottom. I need something to attach to the fence that will give me an area to attach the top gromets at 6 feet.

Thoughts?

 
James Daulton said:
I have a five foot fence around my pool currently. One side of the pool area borders a neighbor with nice, tall arborvitae trees that provided excellent privacy from said neighbor. That is, until a new neighbor moved in and decided to remove said trees. Now one side of our previously private pool area is not so private. Wifey is besides herself over this, and I dislike our new "closeness" with the neighbors as well. To combat the issue, at least temporarily, I procured a six feet high by 50 feet long mesh blackout screen to affix to the fence and provide the much desired privacy.

My issue is that the mesh is 6 feet high and the fence is only 5 feet high, and the mesh connects via gromets at the top and bottom. I need something to attach to the fence that will give me an area to attach the top gromets at 6 feet.

Thoughts?
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Can you affix little metal poles to each fence post going up a foot?
 
mr roboto said:
James Daulton said:
I have a five foot fence around my pool currently. One side of the pool area borders a neighbor with nice, tall arborvitae trees that provided excellent privacy from said neighbor. That is, until a new neighbor moved in and decided to remove said trees. Now one side of our previously private pool area is not so private. Wifey is besides herself over this, and I dislike our new "closeness" with the neighbors as well. To combat the issue, at least temporarily, I procured a six feet high by 50 feet long mesh blackout screen to affix to the fence and provide the much desired privacy.

My issue is that the mesh is 6 feet high and the fence is only 5 feet high, and the mesh connects via gromets at the top and bottom. I need something to attach to the fence that will give me an area to attach the top gromets at 6 feet.

Thoughts?
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Can you affix little metal poles to each fence post going up a foot?
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The existing fence is one of those aluminum wrought iron looking ones. I can affix posts that go up a foot, but then I still need something that goes horizontally across the top of these so I can attach the mesh via the gromets.

 
Are you ok with just having 5 feet of privacy? I would look at bending the mesh over the top of the existing fence and use zip ties to keep it secure.

 
Lay out by your pool naked and let your neighbors stare at at your junk for a couple weeks...they'll replant the arborvitae. Problem solved.

 
Mesh fencing? That seems pretty redneck. Are you guys having lots of pool secs or something? Just plant some bushy trees/shrubs but they may take a few years to fill in.

 
Quez said:
Mesh fencing? That seems pretty redneck. Are you guys having lots of pool secs or something? Just plant some bushy trees/shrubs but they may take a few years to fill in.
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It's actually this black mesh cloth looking stuff that will look pretty cool, I think, once installed. The first order of business is to reestablish privacy before wifey goes insane. A more permanent, solution involving trees, etc will be undertaken once pool season is over.

 
Build a frame of desired height out of PVC pipe. Use zip ties to attach the frame to your existing fence to hold it up. Attach mesh to PVC frame.

 
That sounds like an eye sore. Waiting for the thread about my the "guy next door just put on the most god awful screen on his fence thread".

 
Make a 50' X 1' rectangle out of pvc pipe with a few structural cross members (pvc t fittings) throughout. Use (outdoor) tie-wraps to affix the bottom pvc pipe to the top of existing fence. Tie-wrap two 2' pieces of pvc pipe vertically at each far end, the top half tied to pvc, bottom half tied to fence post, providing vertical stability. Tie wrap the mesh's grommets to top pvc pipe.

I see Country Boys had the same idea. Seems like a simple, low cost solution.

 
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satch said:
Make a 50' X 1' rectangle out of pvc pipe with a few structural cross members (pvc t fittings) throughout. Use (outdoor) tie-wraps to affix the bottom pvc pipe to the top of existing fence. Tie-wrap two 2' pieces of pvc pipe vertically at each far end, the top half tied to pvc, bottom half tied to fence post, providing vertical stability. Tie wrap the mesh's grommets to top pvc pipe.

I see Country Boys had the same idea. Seems like a simple, low cost solution.
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Will implement this weekend. Thanks.

 
mr roboto said:
Why would you remove healthy mature arborvitae? That's worth a lot of money.
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Seriously. What a dumb move. They are risky to try and replant as well as they don't always take to the ground. If they just threw them out, then what a waste of money.

 
John Bender said:
mr roboto said:
Why would you remove healthy mature arborvitae? That's worth a lot of money.
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Seriously. What a dumb move. They are risky to try and replant as well as they don't always take to the ground. If they just threw them out, then what a waste of money.
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The trees were getting overrun with vines and needed a lot of care. He just decided to start taking them out rather than try to get them back. The issue isn't really that the trees were taken down, they had to get cleaned up sometime, just that the jackass decides the beginning of summer is the appropriate time when he could have waited until late Fall and had a plan to replace them. All he's doing is opening up his entire backyard.

This dude's a total hippy. No tv and when I asked him if he liked sports he said that he couldn't even tell me what seasons the sports were played in.

Art history professor if that tells you anything.

 
NutterButter said:
I'd buy some black pvc spraypaint as well so that the pvc doesn't stand out.
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There's some pretty nice pvc on the market nowadays. No markings, different colors, beveled edges on fittigs, etc. I think in a pool area a nice unmarked white pvc with beveled fittings would look fine. Though, a fence-matching silver spray paint (Krylon) might be nice too.
 
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James Daulton said:
John Bender said:
mr roboto said:
Why would you remove healthy mature arborvitae? That's worth a lot of money.
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Seriously. What a dumb move. They are risky to try and replant as well as they don't always take to the ground. If they just threw them out, then what a waste of money.
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The trees were getting overrun with vines and needed a lot of care. He just decided to start taking them out rather than try to get them back. The issue isn't really that the trees were taken down, they had to get cleaned up sometime, just that the jackass decides the beginning of summer is the appropriate time when he could have waited until late Fall and had a plan to replace them. All he's doing is opening up his entire backyard.

This dude's a total hippy. No tv and when I asked him if he liked sports he said that he couldn't even tell me what seasons the sports were played in.

Art history professor if that tells you anything.
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Is your wife rubenesque? :stalker:

 
 
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NutterButter said:
I thought there was a lot more exposure the way you were describing it. You could barely see anything in the before pics.
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The glaring holes in the trees are really much worse than you can tell in the before pics. In the progress pic you can get some idea of how the trees used to be there and now we are exposed completely to their backyard. As I stated though, it was really about trying to keep wifey from going insane. She's flipped a lid over it.

 
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James Daulton said:
Project Complete. Here are some pics:

Pool

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20637_zpsc9d1jrye.jpg

Before Pic 1

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20638_zpsuvaqpff2.jpg

Before Pic 2

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20639_zpsv9jeddzb.jpg

Progress Pic

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20641_zps9ndo6eyk.jpg

After Pic

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20643_zpsxtswgqss.jpg

All in all, I don't think it turned out too bad. Plus it keeps wifey sane for now.

Much love for all the recommendations and tips.
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Looks great man, nice work. Always feels good conpleting a project, solving a problem, and making the wife happy. Beer tastes better those days.
 
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johnnycakes said:
You going to airbrush arborvitae onto the black mesh?
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Funny you mention that. They sell these mesh coverings with pictures airbrushed on them. She saw them first at Disney and thought they were cool. I thought of jungle pic with some monkeys would look cool and match the overall lagoon theme we're going for with the pool. Tough to get that lagoon look in Maryland, but we're trying.

 
satch said:
James Daulton said:
Project Complete. Here are some pics:

Pool

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20637_zpsc9d1jrye.jpg

Before Pic 1

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20638_zpsuvaqpff2.jpg

Before Pic 2

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20639_zpsv9jeddzb.jpg

Progress Pic

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20641_zps9ndo6eyk.jpg

After Pic

http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u462/JamesDaulton/Ricks%20Phone%207-7-15%20643_zpsxtswgqss.jpg

All in all, I don't think it turned out too bad. Plus it keeps wifey sane for now.

Much love for all the recommendations and tips.
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Looks great man, nice work. Always feels good conpleting a project, solving a problem, and making the wife happy. Beer tastes better those days.
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Appreciate the sentiments and you right, right, right, and right.

 
You actually have a good amount of distance between you and the neighbor compared to how close they are building houses these days. In FL the new model is 4k sqft right on top of your neighbor. You can literally bounce a tennis ball off your house and it will hit the neighbors. Greedy builders.

 
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