Best Chain Link Fence Hack? #shorts #diy

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[nathanscovell]

in Florida, people put those up and they quickly turn grey from the sun bleaching

[KareemAbdulAkbar]

Joe’s gotta be the nicest, most understanding contractor out there!!!!

[natka]

I had the same problem.
So I went to the nursery, bought few 5 gallon pots of star jasmine vine and planted along the fence. Nothing beats a lush, fragrant natural privacy screen!! I love it, the hummingbirds love it, and all the wonderful pollinators!

[sertl]

They last about a summer. They fade and the bamboo dry rots. They were about 45-50 a piece. We found other ones that roll out and have plastic mesh, lasted longer.

[Holynightz]

I think it works, but planting some bushes to make a hedge just hits different. Especially since you wont have to see the fence after a few years

[salmanalqahtani]

It’s a plastic and not designed to be under sunlight and will start to break down after a while

[miket]

Good quick solution. Plant bushes and vines in front in raised beds and after a couple years remove plastic sections.

[Stebeway]

Their neighbors had what appeared to be a better solution - landscape design.

[_F_J_B_]

I prefer the 12' Stone Wall option.

[clsanchez]

In Louisiana with hurricanes. In high winds, these screens disintegrate and the fence is fine….I can’t say the same for the environment 😂

[thi]

Going to look like shit in a few years from sun bleaching

[jadelee]

We've had these for the last 4 years on a small part of our fencing in the backyard, and there's two main issues:
1) The plastic leaves become brittle and break after a short while
2) The color changes due to sun bleaching so they do not look very vibrant
Overall it's not a long term solution, but it does well for a few years.

[Heizenberg]

The joke about vining plants is how fast and free they grow. Why wreath your home in plastic when you can plant some seeds and let nature take it's course?

[sparks]

I first tried metal slats at slide into the cyclone fence and they created a air foil. The first high wind hurricane hit the fence and snapped every post off at the base. Next, I tried hibiscus bushes, but here in Florida the lizards love the flowers and the branches snap off extremely easily when the lizards eat the flowers so my next effort was Coco Plum bushes which worked great except they grew 6 feet wide to maintain total privacy. The birds love the fruit and would nest and feed on the fruit. The Coco plums are about the size shape and color of black grapes. My final solution was an evergreen bush with only 1 foot of thickness gave total privacy and stayed beautifully green all year round. I do miss the birds though.

[ebybeehoney]

I think a vining plant would be better. You could trim it and it wouldn't fade. Something native to the area with flowers for pollinators

[MichaelSHartman]

String trimming the bottom. It would be nice to have a couple of inches to avoid string catching the mesh, and the ground cut bare. The cover is probably plastic. Once the foilage has been stripped bare, and uneven it will look bad. Weeding will need to be done by hand. Vining grass, vines, and possibly blown leaves/trash will become harder to remove. It will cause more wind force on the fence, and shade on decorative plants, which might not be a problem.
The "eyesore" was chiefly lack of maintenance on the sidewalk, and base. Not performing maintenance beforehand implies no maintenance later with a more difficult mess.

[andrewforsythe]

I think it would look nice but the same time I will prefer to have something sticks in the ground next to the fence so you can bolt it up to the top row so it doesn't have the weight on the galvanized fence itself I think that will be a better solution because what happens if it rains it stormed or winds blow could destroy fence but also the metal rod end the ground going up just about to the top rail of the galvanized Paul will get a better chance of it won't cost no damage

[kjhaygood]

They had those at the dog kennel I worked at. Even though they were high enough so the dogs couldn’t get to em, the plastic holding the leaves started degrading after a couple of years. The color didn’t stay very long either.

[DarkKingsKing]

I have a covered back porch and I hung something similar from my porch roof. It looks amazing. It gives me privacy and blocks wind, rain, snow, and most bugs. I love relaxing in my hammock on my porch on warm rainy summer nights and watch my little 24" tv. It's surprisingly relaxing.

[jimwilson]

Windload concerns especially if this is light residential grade chain link. We don't install slats or windscreen on anything less than 11ga chain link with ss20 posts. We have seen several times where the wind just flattens lighter fences with screening.