Creating the Perfect Wrought Iron Fence
Some people dream of a house with a white picket fence, but any terrace house lover knows it has be to a wrought iron fence. Although not many iron fences are actually wrought these days, our version still beats the brick monstrosity we started with, and it looks wrought, so that's good enough for us. Site Preparation Even though it was devastating, we started by removing the old chair. As we all know, nothing says "classy home" like an old, broken chair on the porch. Extra points if that chair is a brown couch. We removed the brick wall and all the other muck including plants, mulch and dirt. The concrete path to the front door was removed using a crowbar and much elbow grease. For the footing of the fence, concrete was poured 300mm wide and 400mm deep. (We also poured a concrete slab 100mm thick reinforced with steel rebar for the veranda area - blog post to come on this!). When the formwork was in, but before pouring concrete, we ran pipes for all servi...