Thanks to everyone for the answers!
That's only 20 liters. It's okay.
1,000€ for a 20m fence all-in is not expensive. Just get it done :cool:
Sure, the plants are also really big and dense. I just don't want to burst your bubble, but with that you’re planting a micro see-through hedge - you can’t get more for that price.
Privacy screen (and a bit of noise reduction from the neighbor) immediately = fence
If you have enough time and can live with small plants for several years before they become full plants = hedge
Thanks for the tips. 40kg seemed like a lot to me, but if it doesn’t amount to much in the end, then that should be fine.
We've been living here since January with a 1.80m wooden privacy screen made of Siberian larch. It does not help with noise at all. Just visual privacy.
Oh, and edit: we paid 15K€ for it. Certainly somewhat more than double your length, and we had it done completely. Still, if you dare to do it yourselves, you get a very cheap privacy screen this way.
Thanks, wow 15k is not within our budget for something like that. But you probably also have something visually a lot finer than our plain round arches.
It's a pity you say it doesn’t help with noise at all. Wouldn’t the fence at least dampen some bass? I’m not concerned about noises like conversations or the like, more about annoying sounds from music combined with poor speakers. Nowadays people like to fake quality by simply installing booming loud bass. Such a thing often stands behind the house on the neighbor’s property, and currently there’s nothing along the border, no shrub, no blade of grass – so the sound echoes freely. Hence my hope that the fence would dampen it a bit.
You definitely need the concrete foundations!
You have about 35 m2 of freestanding "sail area", just imagine wind force 8 blowing on that :eek:
50 Euro per running meter is cheap, in my opinion. Hedges also need care, as does wood. What do you prefer?
Are the fence elements made of Thermowood or KDI?
Yes, the quote is for elements made of "KDI green". Around here it can get quite windy. And since it’s a new development, a lot is still open and the wind has free rein with marzipan. The reason for the privacy screen is a metal corrugated sheet cube on the neighbor’s property, and the reason for the cube, as we learned, is the first storm of the year when the previous shed that stood elsewhere flew apart in pieces all over the place. :eek:
But with concrete-embedded posts it should hold, even with wind force 8? There still are only screws in the wood, right? o.O
I also find the price very cheap.
It's no coincidence that it’s advised to include exterior facilities in the calculation and then finance them. Every four-figure amount hurts, and installations like fences and (decent) hedges as well as paving are very expensive.
Can you do bare-root plants? But I tell you: for three to four container plants, there comes another sack of soil/substrate... at 80 liters. That costs more money than the plants themselves.
I think you don’t need to open a new thread now with an introduction: a thread titled "cheap enclosure ideas for noisy neighbors/sensitive ears" or something ;)
What about a wild fence that you cover with ivy?
Okay, if the offer is cheap, that’s good to know. It’s just material though; we’d have to set it up ourselves. I’ll check out YouTube.
We could still do the fence. It’s more about penny-pinching on my part; after a very spendthrift building year, I’d like to stash some cash again.
The plants (was just one example I found) would be bare-root, yes, and mixed heights from 30-120cm.
I would have just planted them in our topsoil. Can’t you do that? O.o We’re in the north and have very peaty soils; my mother is always raving about the soil here. But I’m no gardener, I would have just tried it. What I’ve already planted in a shady bed in front of the house thrives and sprouts like weeds. :D
If I open another thread about our garden, the mods might lynch me someday; I don't dare. :D
Just watch some tutorials on YouTube. That will give you a feel for whether you want to do it or not. You can also conveniently compare the price for the paint with online prices.
Thanks, yes I will look for tutorials on YT. I also found a lot on lawns. The paint is basically not expensive at that store. 60€ for a 4-liter bucket is quite normal for Bondex; I didn’t find it significantly cheaper online. Glaze is somehow super expensive, I was shocked. I only had interior paints in mind, where you always get huge buckets in offers for cheap. So I was a bit shocked that a 4L bucket of glaze costs about 60€. It is what it is.
The package starts with plants from 30 cm. It takes years for them to grow big. If the next winter is as cold as the last one, many will die. It’s no coincidence that each year of standing in the nursery costs serious money.
Yes, that’s true. It says 30-120cm. Based on the really good reviews, I assumed they don’t just plant ONLY 30cm plants. Otherwise someone would have complained about it in the reviews, I thought. Still, I understand that a freshly planted scrub wall is not comparable to a 150-180cm high privacy screen. It will take a few years before it really grows dense.