Front Page Forum: Where to Look for a Fence?

We used Amendola too and had very good results. They charged on the higher side of what we expected, i.e. around 4 k for a cedar fence in a 20/45 ft yard.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 11:22 AM

11:39am - my understanding is the same as yours - when building a fence, you are supposed to build it with the pickets on the inside of your yard, with the finished side facing outward.

Poor etiquette to build it the other way. But thats NY for you.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 11:47 AM

Brooklyn Fence has a pretty great supplier from Canada that has nice design options including various lattice designs, at quite reasonable prices. Our fence plus install for a standard back yard, including a custom gate with trellis, was about $6K.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 11:50 AM

There's a really nice-looking Brooklyn garden reno featured in the current Domino magaazine. It includes a great fence purchased at Home Depot.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 11:57 AM

anything, backwards or not, is better then those awful metal "fences" people have in their yards. I don't understand how people who have the taste to buy a brownstone then ruin it with a nasty yard instead of a proper garden.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 11:57 AM

I just did a fence with Almendola. It cost almost 4 k. We could not fit it through our downstairs so I had to help the guys lift it through our parlor windows and down to the garden. Thanks for large windows, 6 ft high fence, beware it might not fit through your staircase.. We got a bid from the Chelsea Garden Center they wanted 12,000 for the fence and extra 1200 to stain it, and charged tax on top of it, ALmendola did not charge sales tax as it was a capital improvement. Ha take that NY STATE.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 12:58 PM

chain link fences are ghetto

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 1:08 PM

To 11:39 and 11:47: Agree with you 100%--BTW, it has always been custom in Brooklyn to put nice side out--it's out-of-towners who treat their neighbors so unneighborly with the crude justification, "I paid for it." You can't buy good taste or good behavior.
To 11;57: Many houses had low picket fences until the 50s or 60s, when two trends started: tall picket fences, which cut out light and kept you from seeing into the neighbors' yards (privacy maybe less important than nosiness) and cheap metal fences. Chain link seems as senseless as aluminum siding until you realize that people were tired of all the maintenance and replacement costs of wood. Most people used to do that sort of work themselves, and it could get time-consuming as well as expensive. Different times, different priorities.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 1:20 PM

It's mostly chain link fences on my block of the South Slope. Ugly, yes, but at least you get more light and air than with those big stockade fences. And you can get morning glories or something to grow on them in the spring and summer.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 1:48 PM

I went to Fence Plaza on Rogers Ave and purchased a doubled sided cedar fence with a lattice top that looks "finished" on both sides.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 1:50 PM

Dude:

What happened to your lawn?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 1:57 PM

I have a question regarding the 6 inches in from your property line in order to install fences? Is this just a urban myth or proper etiquette or law, rule?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 4:59 PM

any eco value from your new bamboo fence is likely negated by shipping it from across the country

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 6:47 PM

Re: Prices Fence Plaza

I am in Beverley Square West (Victorian Flatbush)and my yard is huge. We paid 4K installed which was about the same price at Amedola. That included a side gate with locking mechanism and the 2 gate driveway gate with locking mechanism. A year after installing the fence, I backed my truck into the gate (yes, the back up sensor was on but I thought I could still back it a little further.) It was minor damage, but they came right out and repaired it free of charge .

Posted by: Anonymous at May 7, 2007 9:57 PM

"any eco value from your new bamboo fence is likely negated by shipping it from across the country"

Bullsh*t! This is possibly true of low value goods, like a head of lettuce, but completely bogus for things of any significant value. High volume shipping is extremely efficient, big ships and long trains are in a totaly different world with respect to to fuel per km per kilo than you are used to thinking about. It's that last 100 km in New York Cities terribly inefficient trucking system which does most of the environmental damage. Do you really think that chopping down some grass and burning a few ounces of diesel extra is worse than cutting down a couple trees?

Anyway, back on topic. I would never install a fence with the nicest side in, that's just rude. Get a two sided fence, or better yet talk to your neighbors about sharing the cost of a two sided fence between you then you can place it on the property line.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 8, 2007 9:35 AM

I love the Brooklyn back yard fence in the current issue of domino too. Any recommendations on tradespeople who can do the job? I saw they bought their lumber from home depot.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 8, 2007 11:19 AM

Bamboo shouldn't have to be shipped to us from California. It must come on ships to NYC too. The green building business is expanding wildly. Do the research because a material that wasn't available here last year or even months or weeks ago, is often available now.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 8, 2007 12:01 PM

I just got into a battle royale with my neighbor over a fence. The neighbor has a chainlink fence that was covered in ivy which had grown onto my fence and compromised the wood. We therefore removed the fence and installed a brand new beautiful painted wood fence in place of the old. (The designer even asked the neighbors what color they'd like their side painted!) My neighbor was very upset about the ivy being removed (even though the good majority was on my property) and even more peeved that the "wrong" side of the fence faced out. Her chain link fence obscures the view, so I don't know why it's an issue to begin with. Just to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong, I called the Brooklyn Buildings Department, and there is no law that states on which side the fence should face. It's particularly silly to worry about that in Brooklyn when most of the fences simply face other fences. I tried to do the right thing by letting my neighbors know weeks ahead of time about the work I planned to do, but it simply opened a pandora's box. Good luck to anyone doing work in the future. Oh, and the ironic part.... her fence is also installed "wrong side out".

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 4:39 PM

I just got into a battle royale with my neighbor over a fence. The neighbor has a chainlink fence that was covered in ivy which had grown onto my fence and compromised the wood. We therefore removed the fence and installed a brand new beautiful painted wood fence in place of the old. (The designer even asked the neighbors what color they'd like their side painted!) My neighbor was very upset about the ivy being removed (even though the good majority was on my property) and even more peeved that the "wrong" side of the fence faced out. Her chain link fence obscures the view, so I don't know why it's an issue to begin with. Just to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong, I called the Brooklyn Buildings Department, and there is no law that states on which side the fence should face. It's particularly silly to worry about that in Brooklyn when most of the fences simply face other fences. I tried to do the right thing by letting my neighbors know weeks ahead of time about the work I planned to do, but it simply opened a pandora's box. Good luck to anyone doing work in the future. Oh, and the ironic part.... her fence is also installed "wrong side out".

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 4:40 PM