How to make a outdoor privacy screen

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Many homeowners' to-do lists include creating a livable outside space. However, after they've accomplished that aim and are spending more time in their barbeque area, outdoor dining area, or living room, they may discover that their neighbours are a bit too near for comfort.

There are several methods to increase your backyard's seclusion. Planting fast-growing clumping bamboo, creating a vertical garden, or even building a breeze-block wall are all excellent options, but installing outdoor screen is the simplest and quickest way to achieve solitude.

Gather your supplies

Posts: 3000 x 90 x 90mm H4 treated pine Rails: 90 x 45mm treated pine Plastic panel screens: 90 x 45mm treated pine (here, 1205 x 2410mm)

Set up the paint

Digger for post holes

leveller for posts

Concrete that cures quickly

Stringline

Plastic packers 10mm

a high-powered saw

hammer and nails

Paintbrushes

Bits and drills

Exterior paint that is water-based and comes in the colour of your choice.

Screws (40mm) made of treated wood

How to install a privacy screen

 

Step 1

Choose the location and size of your screen. Set up side-by-side plastic panels and end posts. End posts must be flush with the outer borders of the end panels. Dig 500mm-deep holes in each end position with a post hole digger.

Step 2

Insert one end of one post into one end hole. Strap the post leveller to the post and make sure the bubbles on both sides are similarly spaced between the lines. This indicates that the post is plumb in both directions. Pour water and concrete into the hole while a helper holds the post in place, and mix according to the package directions. Check for plumb again and lay aside to dry. Rep for the other end post.

Step 3

Measure the width of the panel (here, 1205mm) from the outside of one end post and mark with set-out paint. This will be the focus of the following post. Then, mark every panel width for the remaining post centres. Make 500mm-deep holes at these locations.

Step 4 

Run a taut stringline between the top and bottom end posts. At each end, insert a 10mm packer between the post and the stringlines. Insert the remaining posts into the holes. Using a packer as a guide, place the remaining posts 10mm apart from the stringlines at the top and bottom. (This space prevents one of the posts from crossing the line and putting your screen off track.) Check that the posts are plumb, then add concrete and let it cure as in Step 2.

Step 5

Measure and mark the height of the panel (here, 2450mm) from the ground level of one end post. Transfer this level to all other posts, then, if necessary, use a power saw to chop tops off posts at these points.

Step 6

Rails should be cut to fit between the posts at the top and bottom. Make the top rails flush with the tops of the posts. Then, for the location of the underside of the bottom rails, measure down the length of the panel's posts. Skew nail rails into position with a nail gun. Posts and railings should be painted. Allow to dry.

Step 7

Clamp 1 panel to 1 end post so that it is flush with the post on all sides. Panels should be countersunk and screwed to posts and rails. Repeat for the remaining panels, making sure they are all aligned.

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