The Wind Breaker

Now it can get a tad windy in Skye, well, a bit more than a tad... And when you live right on the front of the sound... The back door opens to the side of the house and the driveway, so when you step out, you get blasted it the wind is playing. There's also no form of fence a the back of the driveway, so you get a good view of the garden when walking by. No privacy what so ever! Time to change!

I don't want a cute wee fence with a little gate as it serves no purpose against the high wind and certainly doesn't add any privacy... But at the same time, I don't want a massive fence that is nothing but scary and ugly.

So the master plan is to build two fences that go halfway across the driveway on either side, high enough and sturdy enough to both shield against the wind and prying eyes. But fences are expensive, so half will do for now... The half next to the back door of course...

Step one: lift two slabs (easy peesy, not heavy at all...), and shift out of the way...

Very pretty...

Next, dig a hole, stick your post in (ensuring it's level...), fill the hole with water and add postcrete... Oh yeah, and wait...

I forgot to mention the need for supports so that you don't have to stand there holding onto the thing waiting for the postcrete to dry and hoping you don't move it accidentally and it ends up setting squint...

Now time to work out where the other post will go and repeat...

X marks the spot!

Although it apparently only takes ten minutes to set, I decided that I'd let the posts set over night and finish it off the next day.

How attractive!...

And all that was left to do was level out the ground and nail on the slats...

Think I might need to get a wee bag of gravel to level it out...

And some pictures for the finished article!

Oops left the back door open...

Woohoo! A wee bit more hidden and more shelter from the wind!