Let’s Build a Fence: Day 1
We were so excited! We had everything planned out on our day off. We were going to take JBK’s stakebody to our nearest Lowes (thirty minutes away) and pick up our three and a half foot tall fence panels. We had to wait until a morning delivery was finished, so by the time we got up to the store we were already into early afternoon. While we waited, Jason and our friend Sam rented the Hydraulic Auger and dig out the holes for the posts.
Don’t expect loading at Lowes to be quick. By the time we had purchased our panels, cement, and posts, it took an hour and a half to load it into our truck. We were a bit miffed because none of our customers at JBK would be as patient as we were! But we were more excited to get the panels and go home to start building our fence so we didn’t let it bother us.
By the time we got home, it was nearly five o’clock and we unloaded the panels only for more disappointment.
The panels were trash! The entire pallet was filled with rotten panels. There were about six out of twenty-eight panels that were okay to use. Jason got on the phone with Lowes, and they told us they would fix the problem if we could get back up to the store but our issue at this point was time with the truck and bringing it back to JBK for tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, one of our neighbors diagonally behind us had just recently added a six foot privacy fence. As we sat there, upset that we would have to drive up another day and our fence was put on hold, we realized that we might just need to invest a little more money and go for the larger privacy fence because the wood was treated. So we did the numbers, and realized it would only set us back a little more than we wanted to spend, but it was still under our rough estimate that we had saved for the fence anyway!
So we planned on going back up to Lowes the next day directly after work when we left at 5 o’clock. We knew we wouldn’t be able to start putting the fence up, but we would have at least all of our supplies we would need! So we waited.
