I saved £9k & gave my council house garden a mega glow up after building my own privacy fence – it was SO easy
A DIY whizz has revealed that she was quoted over £10,000 to build a privacy fence in her back garden, so decided to do it herself on a budget.
25-year-old Celene Francis has recently shown off her council house’s cheap but chic makeover, but now, she gave her garden a fresh new look too.
Posting on TikTok under the username @61thecouncilhouse, Celene documented the process of her privacy fence build.
Costing her just £600 in total, it’s no surprise that Celene was thrilled to have saved around £9,400 on her DIY job.
She said: “POV: You get quoted more than £10,000 for your garden so you do it yourself.”
In the short video we saw Celene get to work on building the fence.
She said: “So I thought I’d just do a quick video on how we created this slat fence.
“It is super easy to do, super cheap and looks really, really nice.
“We get loads of compliments on it and honestly, it is really easy to do.
“So first things first, what you’re gonna need to do this is, you’re gonna need 4×4 posts, 4×1 slats, how many you need depends on the size, you’re gonna need some screws and you’re gonna need some Postcrete.
“So to start off with, you wanna dig roughly two feet deep for each post and then what you want to do, you wanna use one slat to measure the distance between each of your posts.
“So for example, our slats measure 2.4 meters, so we had a post every 2.4 meters.
“Obviously you want to add your Postcrete, leave them to set, and once they are fully set, you want to go ahead and screw the bottom slats across, so you want to do that the full length you intend to do.”
She then stressed the importance of using a spirit level, as she continued: “Make sure you use a spirit level, because you want to make sure that they’re all nice and level and to create the gap in between the slats, we turned one of the slats on its side, pop it on your bottom slat, that is the gap that we used and then we just built up the fence that way.
“Once you get to the top of the fence, if you’ve got any remainder of the post left, obviously cut it off, depending on the height that you wanna go for.”
Celene then shared her advice for those wanting to create their own slat fence.
She noted: “One thing that I would definitely recommend doing is adding a slab of wood vertical to the joints, so where the screws are we added one slab vertically and it just ties it in nicely and then you can’t see any of the joints and it just makes it look a little bit neater.
“What I would recommend doing is if your wood is not treated, you will need to treat it, so you need to obviously paint it or varnish it, do something to it to treat it.
“If you buy treated wood then obviously you don’t need to but it is a lot more expensive, so it’s entirely on your price range what you wanna do.”
Celene then showed off her finished fence, as she proudly beamed: “This is the finished look, I hope you guys like it.”
Celene shared her clip just four days ago, but it has clearly impressed many, as it has quickly amassed almost 20,000 views.
It has 658 likes, 8 comments, 246 saves and 44 shares.
Social media users were left stunned at the DIY job and were eager to praise Celene’s new fence in the comments.
One person said: “Looks absolutely amazing.”
Another added: “Looks lovely.”
A third commented: “Perfect, well done.”
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