adzeman
Established Member
Hi Billy, when I received your post I rushed it and you know what they say about rushing.
The laths are 30mm wide which is in old money the finished thickness of 1 1/2" thick PAR stock. The thickness is 1/16" less than the 1/2" router bit used to plough the grooves.
All the timber for the laths is from existing scrap, leftovers, skip diving. I had some 6" x 1 1/2" x 1.16 lengths left over from a pair of gates I made last year. I purchase my timber from a local timber yard in standard 2.4M lengths. This is the longest length I can get into the car and there is no point in buying a less dimension and still paying for 2.4 plus a cutting charge.
This covered one frame, the second frame was made from ripping what was left from the 2" x 2" used for the short ends. This gave three laths, the rest came from a skip three streets away outside an empty house being re-furbished The foreman had no problem in letting me have some of the timber stripped out. It takes 14 full lengths of laths to do one frame.
When I do the panels for the boundary for the side fencing which is not to match existing I will change the height of the panel. The bought panels are 6' 0" x 2' 0" which is still the size fence panels are made but named in metric.
By making the panels 1’ 10” high would save me a 2.4 length of 2” x 2” and give me 9 laths only 6 more to find and still within the £6.00 or buy another 2.4 making £9.00 a panel, still not bad.
I am pleased you asked me about the preservative as I missed this from my original post.
I required a clear green tinged preservative to match the pressurised originals I my timber yard did not supply this product as neither did the local D.I.Y. outlets, so I went back to the fencing supplier in the village.
This supplier is huge and to tour their works was not a problem. I observed on the day I visited at least 20 carpenters manufacturing fence panels, gates, post etc. A large proportion of the material is grown locally and they have there own pressurising chambers. Travelling the road from Brighton to Rye the width of East Sussex, one is passing woods sign posted as timber suppliers with large stacks of harvested timber.
My local fence supplier sold me 5litres for £18.00
The laths are 30mm wide which is in old money the finished thickness of 1 1/2" thick PAR stock. The thickness is 1/16" less than the 1/2" router bit used to plough the grooves.
All the timber for the laths is from existing scrap, leftovers, skip diving. I had some 6" x 1 1/2" x 1.16 lengths left over from a pair of gates I made last year. I purchase my timber from a local timber yard in standard 2.4M lengths. This is the longest length I can get into the car and there is no point in buying a less dimension and still paying for 2.4 plus a cutting charge.
This covered one frame, the second frame was made from ripping what was left from the 2" x 2" used for the short ends. This gave three laths, the rest came from a skip three streets away outside an empty house being re-furbished The foreman had no problem in letting me have some of the timber stripped out. It takes 14 full lengths of laths to do one frame.
When I do the panels for the boundary for the side fencing which is not to match existing I will change the height of the panel. The bought panels are 6' 0" x 2' 0" which is still the size fence panels are made but named in metric.
By making the panels 1’ 10” high would save me a 2.4 length of 2” x 2” and give me 9 laths only 6 more to find and still within the £6.00 or buy another 2.4 making £9.00 a panel, still not bad.
I am pleased you asked me about the preservative as I missed this from my original post.
I required a clear green tinged preservative to match the pressurised originals I my timber yard did not supply this product as neither did the local D.I.Y. outlets, so I went back to the fencing supplier in the village.
This supplier is huge and to tour their works was not a problem. I observed on the day I visited at least 20 carpenters manufacturing fence panels, gates, post etc. A large proportion of the material is grown locally and they have there own pressurising chambers. Travelling the road from Brighton to Rye the width of East Sussex, one is passing woods sign posted as timber suppliers with large stacks of harvested timber.
My local fence supplier sold me 5litres for £18.00
