Columbus Lets You Build an Eight Foot Fence. Should You?
The Columbus ordinance sets one flat eight foot limit with no lower front-yard rule. What that permission is good for, and where the real limits are.
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Notes on fencing in Columbus
Shorter pieces on the specific things that come up here: what the local ordinance permits, what the clay does to a post, how historic district approval works, and what a fence can honestly be expected to survive.
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Georgia 811 and the Fence You Are About to Dig
Georgia 811 names installing a fence as exactly the kind of project it wants to hear about. What the locate does, what it costs, and how long it takes.
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Red Clay and the Reason Fence Posts Lean
Piedmont clay holds a post firmly and holds water against it just as firmly. What that does over twelve years, and four cheap details that change it.
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Adding a Fence in a Columbus Historic District
The Board of Historic and Architectural Review names fences among the alterations needing a Certificate of Appropriateness. What that means in practice.
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Fencing a Yard When You Might Move in Three Years
Columbus has a lot of housing on assignment cycles. What that changes about fence decisions for renters, landlords and short-horizon owners around Fort Benning.
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Wind, Storms and What a Fence Can Honestly Withstand
Straight-line winds and falling limbs damage more fences around Columbus than anything dramatic. What construction helps, and what none can survive.
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What the Specifications on a Fence Quote Describe
Post rating, footing size, post spacing and gate construction set what a fence costs and how long it lasts. Here is what each specification means.
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