30cm High trellis cover ideas?

simosimo

Our landlords replaced our old fence with a nice new fence, but it's 5 foot with 1 foot trellis (stupid I know). We grabbed some leaf trellis screeners which are OK at obscuring eye contact from one neighbour.
Not ideal but it'll do.

The neighour next to us has errected the same fence as our landlord chose (with a trellis). We're looking to block off their trellis view entirely with their permission as they're pottering around 24/7 and have views into our back room/garden area.

But I'm struggling to find a more opaque-covering product online in this day and age. I think we must be aliens for wanting such a product with no gaps, the same line of thinking of getting a fence........with trellis....

I was thinking of bamboo sticks but no where does 30cm high and 180cm wide (A normal fence panel). It's either rolls, or squares, lunacy!

Are there some home made solutions I can errect, such as some kind of brown paper - i'm grasping at straws at this point :rotfl:

missbiggles1

simosimo wrote: »

Our landlords replaced our old fence with a nice new fence, but it's 5 foot with 1 foot trellis (stupid I know). We grabbed some leaf trellis screeners which are OK at obscuring eye contact from one neighbour.
Not ideal but it'll do.

The neighour next to us has errected the same fence as our landlord chose (with a trellis). We're looking to block off their trellis view entirely with their permission as they're pottering around 24/7 and have views into our back room/garden area.

But I'm struggling to find a more opaque-covering product online in this day and age. I think we must be aliens for wanting such a product with no gaps, the same line of thinking of getting a fence........with trellis....

I was thinking of bamboo sticks but no where does 30cm high and 180cm wide (A normal fence panel). It's either rolls, or squares, lunacy!

Are there some home made solutions I can errect, such as some kind of brown paper - i'm grasping at straws at this point :rotfl:

What's wrong with buying someting that comes on a roll - that's what we have.

simosimo

The troubles is finding the 30cm height to fit the 1 foot trellice. Most we've found are either 1m heigh minimum which would trapse over the fence lookin a bit silly.

Justagardener

I think the bamboo/reed screening you are talking about is wired in three places, it is possible to cut the bamboo to the required height with secateurs. Failing that there are similar thatch/rush screens which you could cut and lay horizontally and snip the wire to the required height. You could cover a few trellis panels like this with one piece.

simosimo

Justagardener wrote: »

I think the bamboo/reed screening you are talking about is wired in three places, it is possible to cut the bamboo to the required height with secateurs. Failing that there are similar thatch/rush screens which you could cut and lay horizontally and snip the wire to the required height. You could cover a few trellis panels like this with one piece.

Thanks - i'm slightly concerned, most bamboo screens have the net curtain effect, aka they're not entirely opaque. I may just have to take a punt with some thicker / tighter screens and take a pair of secs to it

Davesnave

So, this neighbour takes care to buy and erect a fence that matches others, and then this person next door wants to attach an oversized, ethnic-style place mat to it.

Too embarrassed, they daren't say 'No.' After all, they potter around unreasonably in their own garden at all hours, don't they?

Yes, they deserve all that's coming to them.

simosimo

Because privacy in your own home/garden is such a hard ask!

Davesnave

simosimo wrote: »

Because privacy in your own home/garden is such a hard ask!

Just giving a different perspective.

You are in a minority. The landlord and the neighbour seem to have chosen similarly and you dismiss their choice as 'stupid.'

However, it might be that your special needs are the 'big ask,' especially as neither has an obligation to put up any fence at all.

moneyistooshorttomention

I think people differ on how much privacy they expect in a back garden. It must be pretty common to want it - judging by the fact that EA's will mention "private back garden" as a feature of the property if the garden is in fact private.

I sympathise - as I am someone that wants absolute total privacy in my back garden and I don't like anyone making any alterations to that that impact on my privacy. I've done various things myself to have it as private as possible - but am more than a little annoyed that some actions by others have detracted a lot from the high degree of privacy I had there:mad:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I sympathise - as I am someone that wants absolute total privacy in my back garden

You sympathise? Really?

Those of us who know your posts well, would be willing to bet that if the fence+trellis was yours, and your neighbour started attaching pieces of bamboo screen along it, you'd be the first one to demand their removal.

No one is suggesting that the OP has no right to privacy; only that it might be more considerate to achieve it without interfering with others' property.

missbiggles1

simosimo wrote: »

The troubles is finding the 30cm height to fit the 1 foot trellice. Most we've found are either 1m heigh minimum which would trapse over the fence lookin a bit silly.

I was thinking of the 2m high stuff to cover the whole fence.