How do you show your best friend you care?
How do you show your best friend you care? With their own custom exercise enclosure built on the side of a mountain. Pictured: Ornamental steel dog enclosure between existing decks and railings at hillside built house in Incline Village (Washoe County).
Securing the View
Securing the View Nothing ruins a day at the beach or the pristine views like having to deal with somebody else’s trash. Or worrying about your little ones taking off unsupervised toward the water. Pictured: Screened ornamental steel gates with mechanical locksets for H.O.A. lake access at Tahoe (Douglas County.)
How to simplify out with the old and in with the new?
How to simplify out with the old and in with the new? Easier access with an automated gate system. Pictured: Cedar box style fence with cedar-clad, metal frame automated cantilever gate in Tahoe Vista (Placer County). Access control by Awaxx Sysytems.
Ready for 2021?
Ready for 2021? Here’s to putting a stout fence around 2020 to keep this past year from getting out again. And to wishing you all a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year. Happy New Year! Pictured: Guardsman’s modern style, ornamental steel fencing at Incline Village (Washoe County).
Oh, Deer! Christmas is almost here.
Oh, Deer! Christmas is almost here. May your Holidays be merry and bright. And that the Christmas Star brings you comfort each Winter’s night. Pictured: Carson’s deer eating up for the Winter ahead. A Tahoe Christmas wreath shining bright. The Christmas Star showing in Mound House (Lyon county) through the night.
What’s the benefit to having a fence in the Winter?
What’s the benefit to having a fence in the Winter? It’s a great way to tell how deep the snow is. Pictured: Turned 3-rail, cedar 4×4 on pressure treated 6×6 posts at Star Harbor (Placer County) in the snow.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” . . .
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” . . . The song’s name says it all. As we get closer to the first day of Winter, the days are getting shorter, and we’re getting cold, wet weather. Here are some winter tips for your fences and gates to keep you from getting left out in the cold: If you need to keep your gates in one position (like closed for your kids or pets,) block up under the gates near the latch side. This will help keep them from binding up under the weight of snow/ice. If you don’t need your gates in the closed position, leave them open or take them off (if small enough.) It will make it easier if you need to clear snow. Remember to keep locks, or any metal-on-metal moving parts lubricated and clear of snow and ice to keep from freezing up when it gets really cold. And probably most important, don’t use automated gates as snow plows to clear the driveway. Unless you like to keep fence companies busy with repairs! Pictured: Black chain link enclosure in Homewood (Placer County).
Lions, Tigers, and Bears? Big bears oh my!
Lions, Tigers, and Bears? Big bears oh my! Thank goodness the weekend is near. It’s been a week of big challenges and surprises. . . Big, big, surprises! Pictured: Resident Tahoe bear not too happy we were there to work on the fence.
What are a few of your favorite things?
What are a few of your favorite things? Chain link with barbed wire to keep out the bad guys. . . Solid wood screening the view from onlooking eyes. . . Split rail to stop the damage from wandering mustangs . . . These are a few of our favorite thangs! Pictured: Chain link with vertical and angled barbed wire from start to finish in Mound House (Lyon County.) A dogear wood fencing enclosure on metal posts in Yerington (Lyon County.) Cedar split rail with welded wire in Carson City.
Need a laugh?
Need a laugh? Looks like the Elf On The Shelf even needs to quarantine this year. Hopefully, Santa’s immune and doesn’t become a super-spreader on Christmas Eve . . . Yeah, probably getting a lump of coal in the stocking for going after a laugh at Santa’s expense! Pictured: Elf On The Shelf masked and quarantined in mason jar with essentials, hand sanitizer and peppermints.