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Me
Citizen
Username: 1972
Post Number: 15
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 3:37 pm: | 
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I have a chain link fence around my backyard and need to get it extended by 30 feet. Any recommendations on which fence company to use? Thanks. |
Cerebrus Maximus
Citizen
Username: Xtralargebrain
Post Number: 35
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 8:40 pm: |
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Me,
Please disregard the following if you live in a rural area (unlikely); otherwise read on:
Please see my other recent commentary on vinyl siding installations and aluminum siding. Chain link fencing works perfectly in a trailer park or a junk yard but its completely inappropriate for a town with charming colonial homes. Let me guess...you own a Rotweiller and drive a Hummer. Its bad enough that you have chain link to begin with but to now ask about extending it by 30 feet?? OY!.
Oh I know, you're probably thinking that because you have the green plastic coated chain link fence that it somehow makes a difference. FORGET IT. I can assure you that your neighbors HATE IT.
Please, on behalf of your neigbors, I beg you think outside of your own property line. Have you considered a tasteful wood or iron fence or does that make too much sense?
XLB |
Brett Sahler
Citizen
Username: Brettsahler
Post Number: 41
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 9:31 pm: |
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I have to agree with Cerebrus. Chain link fence has zero redeeming qualities. |
Todd Manana
Citizen
Username: T_manana
Post Number: 12
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 10:19 pm: |
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I'd recommend Billy-Bob's Chain Link Fence Removal Service. Enough said. |
Amie Brockway-Metcalf
Citizen
Username: Amie
Post Number: 532
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 10:56 pm: |
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Once again I must say that this argument is classist. Not everyone has the money to do charming renovations with period-appropriate materials. What if the OP has kids that need to be reigned in by the fence? Not everybody has 5 grand for a picket fence. Not everybody has $30 grand to remove their asbestos siding and replace it with cedar shake. If you're so worried about how my house looks, go live in Celebration, FL, where everyone has nice white curtains on their front windows and approved paint colors.
We love these towns because of their diversity, both ethnically and economically. |
Cerebrus Maximus
Citizen
Username: Xtralargebrain
Post Number: 39
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 7:33 am: |
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Thats nice except you dont get point. When you live in a neigborhood of closely spaced vintage homes, you can not be so self-centered. You MUST take into account the aesthetic impact your home has on the overall environment. Why stop at chain link to contain your unruly children? You might as well put up barbed wire and a guard tower.
I loved this town because of its potential to have a warm established feel. Chain link fences, and bad siding products erode such potential.
Cerebrus Max-I-Mus |
Amie Brockway-Metcalf
Citizen
Username: Amie
Post Number: 533
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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So, I shouldn't be allowed to live here, because I decided to quit my job to raise my kids at home and therefore can't afford to replace my chainlink fence? |
tjohn
Supporter
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4309
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 10:22 am: |
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Can't you just plant some English Ivy along the fence? In a couple of years, you will have a green fence. |
Cerebrus Maximus
Citizen
Username: Xtralargebrain
Post Number: 41
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 11:31 am: |
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Amie,
If you cant afford to replace the fence, would you at least consider tjohns suggestion? Seems like a low cost way to improve aesthetics.
On a positive note, thank you for being among the handful of Moms that choose to stay at home and raise children properly versus the others that just shove them off on nannies.
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Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 612
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 12:01 pm: |
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interesting unsolicited attack by CM....I take it you didn't read last weeks Economist Mag, reporting on an interesting study that revealed current working US Women are actually spending significantly more time with their children than their Stay-at-Home 1950's counterparts? The simple theory of explanation is that in producing more household income, families can afford household services that previously were Housewives responsibility (demanding in excess of 40 hours per week). It was further revealed that the time spent with kids was deemed to be of a higher quality Parental/child time.
But you probably don't care much about facts vs your own invented Taliban-like views? I'd be happy to share the article with you, unless you have concerns about your ability to understand the underlying concepts in this publication (lots of Math). It isn't "US" or "People Magazine" after all.... |
Travis
Citizen
Username: Travis
Post Number: 417
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 12:06 pm: |
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Cerebrus,
While I share some of your aesthetic concerns, particularly with respect to plastic siding (my commiserations to those have inherited a house with this).....
....you remind me of the Jack Nicholson character in As Good As It Gets..... |
TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 438
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 12:20 pm: |
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Wow, can any other random (direct and oblique) attacks get thrown in here?
Kinda like saying, thanks for not sullying the area near my charming colonial home with your inferior, tasteless esthetics, you crappy, unloving mother, you.
Especially considering no one has any idea what Me's house or property looks like. Frankly, I'd say that no one should be that preterbed by the siding or fencing (or, dare I say...windows) in someone else's house.
It's one thing if someone says, hey, I'm thinking about putting up a fence, any suggestions? to then say, 'I think wood or iron fences look much nicer than chain link.' |
Amie Brockway-Metcalf
Citizen
Username: Amie
Post Number: 534
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 1:18 pm: |
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Cerebrus, any desire I had to converse with you is gone. |
Jersey Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 748
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 2:02 pm: |
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ANY Hoo!!
Me,
We used Artistic Fence. I think they can do any kind of fence you want. In my researching, though, the reason chain link is so cheap, is it's so damned easy to install. If money IS an issue, you could probably read a book from Home Depot and do it yourself.
Although I think a gate would be more complicated, a straight run on flat ground could be done in a weekend with some help, maybe Cerebrus Maximus, Brett Sahler, Tod Manana, or tjohn are available.
And with the money you save, you could buy scads of English Ivy!
Everybody wins,
J.B. |
TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 439
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 3:39 pm: |
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Jersey Boy for Mayor! |
Handygirl
Citizen
Username: Handygirl
Post Number: 685
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 5:06 pm: |
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For what its worth, I'm not the biggest fan of ivy in this part of the country. In the winter it gets brown and crappy looking, which lasts until mid to late april. There are probably other vines that work on chain link fences as well. However, I don't really have any suggestions, except evergreen plantings in front of the fence - which take up precious room. |
tjohn
Supporter
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4311
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 5:51 pm: |
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There is Climbing or Wintercreeper Euonymous that will cover a fence fairly quickly. This vine is an aggressive, invasive non-native species. However, since it is already planted all over the place, I don't suppose one more planting will matter.
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Jersey Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 759
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 9:31 pm: |
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TomD,
Mayor?! No thanks, I'd prefer to be the MOL Godfather. "I will do you this favor, but someday, I may ask you to do me a favor..."
"Let's say, I help to put in this fence... some day, I may ask you to help "dispose" of some asbestos siding. You wouldn't say, 'no'..."
J.B.
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