Black & Decker: The Complete Guide to Garden Walls & Fences
Garden Walls & Fences has you covered from common brick and stone walls to complex trellis and bamboo fencing then continues with retaining, decorative and useful walls including benches.
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Pictures/Illustrations 23/25
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Walls & Fences is your complete guide to building and maintaining decorative and useful walls, fences and other structures that are based on the wood, brick, stone and concrete used to construct them. The book starts with planning and moves on to tools, materials and then to building the project from the ground up.
Garden Walls & Fences is a great book for the home owner and will give a really in depth basis for all your landscaping needs in walls and fences. The book shows examples of wood and plastic, chain link and brick fences as well as a variety of retaining and decorative walls you can build.
Garden Walls & Fences starts off with basic ideas then moves to planning and basic techniques so you have all the right knowledge and help from what tools to use and materials you want according to your budget. Each section is well laid out so you don't get ahead of yourself and the sections are easy to understand and follow.
Working with your concrete foundations and footings you will have plenty of help with ideas about using rebar and other anchoring and structural parts of your foundation. The walls you will be building or fences using these foundations will need some kind of anchoring so the book goes into detail using the appropriate materials for each job.
Brick and stone walls and even brick corner posts for fencing can be easily built with the instructions and guides in Garden Walls & Fences and even a new comer to this type of work will find plenty of help. From tools like trowels, brick splitters and more as well as how to use these tools with building techniques are included. The book has those hard materials like brick, stone and concrete as well as stuff like wood and plastic fencing and even goes into regular chain link projects.
Using techniques in this book I have built a wooden picket fence last year and when reviewing the book found a few tips and hints that would have been useful as well as the ones I already knew. The book has a lot of helpful and useful tips and suggestions that will help you in the various projects around your home.
I found that the book has suggestions that are from people who have done these types of projects with things like using a spray paint can and string to mark out a curve or pinning pieces of plastic to the ground when marking post locations. The book has hints and tips with regular methods for building all kinds of fences and other projects using a wide variety of materials.
The Complete Guide to Garden Walls & Fences is a well put together book that includes not only the techniques and methods to build various projects around your home but helpful tips as well. Garden Walls & Fences is well worth purchasing if you're looking at projects like fences, stone or brick walls and even benches or retaining walls.
The book also goes into repairing and maintaining those projects with repairs to stone, brick and wood projects so even after construction you will have the knowhow and techniques to keep your projects well maintained. The repair section is well written with techniques for working on your projects like replacing rotted wooden posts and repairing bricks in walls including mortar repair.
The Complete Guide to Garden Walls & Fences is a great book for projects around your home including fences of various kinds, retaining walls and decorative benches. I highly recommend Garden Walls & Fences for those home projects and helpful tips for maintaining them after they're built.