FENCING MATERIALS

Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 2

FENCING MATERIALS

“Variety” writes:—“l would like some information as regards fencing. The picket fence has now gone out of favor, and is being in most cases replaced by jarrah. This timber has a nice clean look when kept well oiled, but goes grey and dnsty-looking when not constantly attended to. There is also a lack of variety about these fences unless a good deal of money is spent on them. Would yon let mo have, through the medium of your paper, the comparative costs per yard of the different fencing—brick, cement, jarrah, and netting—with some suggestions of new designs?” It is beyond the scope of the “Home Builder” to supply anything in the nature of comparative costs, because there are so many classes of work and grades of materials. The fence best adapted to modern bungalows should be one that forms a most attractive feature, not high enough to obscure vision, but one that is pleasing ih proportion and blends exquisitely with the exterior. For instance, a brick fence, no matter how well designed, does not lend itself to a wooden residence as much as a nicely proportioned jarrah paling fence artistically built. A fence of this nature is within keeping, and its durability is assured against the action of the elements. On the other hand, a clinker brick with suitable piers, plain but effective, built on a concrete base, is preferred to almost any other form, provided its presence is in harmony with the building as a whole. The modern home, attractively designed, is enhanced as much by a properly designed fence as by a well-kept garden and lawn.