Making fence from pallets?

kit

I've never visited this board before - I'm not very garden minded! I hope you could help me.

I need a fence round my front garden. I am thinking of using pallets to do this. Has anyone done this before? If so do you have pictures I could see or links to sites that show some? Just want to get an idea how to do it and how it looks!

Thanks
Kit

jamanda

My OH made some gates from large pallets - that was about 7 years ago and are as good as new. Wood is wood if you treat it with preservative of some sort. Sorry, don't have photos but you should be OK.

J

marybakers

I made fence many years ago out of pallets.it is so easy to do.just buy some post and runners for your fence and once you put them in ,put straps of wood on.remember to paint straps of wood first before you nail them on.you now have brand new fence.

jackieb

Our one is made from pallets. It's been up for 13 years. The wood is nailed onto the posts horizontally. A couple of years ago our neighbours put up a high fence. We said we'd take our fence down but they said to leave it, it was okay. They've actually used our posts to nail their posts to. I think it would blow down if it wasn't for our little fence. Now we can't stain and treat the other side of the fence, so not sure how much longer it will last.

Sorry it's not very clear, and there's no picture of the gate either.

kit

Thank you - thats great! I am thinking of putting them up the other way as my 2 year old DD will try to climb them otherwise!
Its really good to see them up - I was worried it would look horrible but your's looks great!

jackieb

Ah, yes, that would just be like a ladder for a wee one.

At our last house our fence was up and down too, also made from pallets. Nothing like recycling is there? Our present one would look better but it needs another coat of preservative.

sammiboo

I used to work at a bird sanctuary and beign a charity everything that could cost save would be. We used palletts as fences and gates - for the gardened areas, as you can imagine they would be heavily used, but they could withstand the use use they got.

I havent got ahy pics but i would say go for it

steady__eddie

I've made boatloads of fencing from pallets, I can recommend the economics of the process. If you can, try and get harwood pallets, I have found that it does tend to last longer than softwood. Press your thumbnail into the wood and if it leaves an impression in the wood then it is softwood. I have been privvy to unlimited loads of pallets at work for free in the past but nowadays pallet firms have sprung up everywhere near me and pallets appear to have become currency.

paddy's_mum

If you can get them from (places like Jewson, Wickes etc) the really big pallets that things like plasterboard and insulation panels come on are even better for fencing. They have fewer individual boards but each board is between six and eight feet long. We grab them at every opportunity, give a good dose of timber preservative, and so far have built fencing, made a border edging, gap-boarding on an outside woodshed, split to make a prop for the clothesline ....