What is the cheapest way to go about fencing a yard in?

Question

I know there is no cheap way! LOL

But anywhere to look for really good pricing?

Wood vs the plastic stuff?

We have an .75 of an acre of land and it runs very long (old colonial style home). My husband doesn't want to fence it in because he is cheap and think it's a waste. But he also thinks the dogs are just going to magically stay in the yard. I would like to fence the whole thing in instead of just having a dog pen.

Any advice you can give me on how to start this project would be great- because I want to show him numbers on how much it would be to buy the supplies and my and my father will put it up.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Even if you do it yourself using 6ft wood privacy fencing, you are look at around $4500+ depending on where you live and that's just in materials.

The cheapest way to keep your dogs on your property is an underground pet fence.

Answer 2

Have you thought about a chainlink fence? It's cheaper than privacy fencing and still keeps the dogs in.

Answer 3

I would go look at Pets mart for an electronic fence that you can put in the ground to keep the dogs from leaving your property.  They have pretty cool technology that uses sound to keep your dogs from leaving the enclosed area.  This is probably cheaper than a fence.

If you did put up a fence, I would use the plastic stuff.  It will cost more up front but will last for many more years than a wood fence would.

Answer 4

Hubby and I just finished fencing our back yard for as cheaply as we could.  We also have dogs that need to be contained and we have never used the invisible, underground dog fence.  To my thinking, if the dog wants to get out bad enough that little shock is not going to stop it going but it may make it think twice about coming back across it.

Here is what we used to build our fence.

For the posts we used land scape timbers ($3-4 at Lowe's).  We dug each hole with post hole diggers (a real pain if your ground is rocky) and concreted the corner posts and the ones for the gate.  The others we just packed the dirt back in real well.  All the posts have the flat side which face outward.  We  leveled each post and we uses a line tied along the posts to keep them straight.   For the fencing itself we bought the pre made wood picketed fence  with the spaces between the pickets  (8 foot sections for $23 each at Lowe's) and used long wood screws to secure them.  We chose that kind so the dogs could see through the fence.

The gate was made out of a fence piece that we reinforced with treated 2x4's and that was attatched with 6 inch bolts to give that heavy gate strength.  Using landscape timbers you will need and extra long gate latch though.

We bought the poles a fence pieces a little each week so that it did not slam into our budget.

Yes, you could go with the green poles you pound in and  cheap rolls of wire fencing but those types do not last very long and need to be staked to the ground to keep the dogs from pushing out the bottom and tend to bend and collapse if the dogs put thier feet up on the top.

Of all the types of fencing we priced, this method was actually the cheapest and most secure.

Chain link fencing is not that expensive until you start adding up the price of all the extra connectors that you will need and then the price goes through the roof!

The best bet is to yes, get ideas and then go do some pricing.  Good luck and I hope this helps you.