This time I ordered the timber through Bunnings rather than Narangba Timbers, since Bunnings was only 500m away. It arrived at the front of the house as shown in the images below.

The fence at the back of the house was the first to be built. I wanted to basically build from the back of the house towards the front.

Each end of the fence required the smaller side panels cut on a diagonal.

The bottom of the fence was fully concreted. This not only makes the 600mm posts into the ground a lot stronger, it prevents water running into our yard and vermin from entering our yard.

From the end of the fence, you can see the post and the horizontal rails on both sides of the fence. There is a rail at the top, middle and bottom, on both sides of the fence. The timber then attaches to the fence using 2 screws at each of these 3 rail positions.

The back fence can be seen from the garage side of the house in the image below.

As for the saw I used for all of the timber cutting... this was the cheapest saw that Bunnings was selling. This Ozito saw was only $50, reduced to $38.50 (25% off) when I reached the checkout. It has a 3 year return to shop/replacement warranty. So I decided to buy an extra cutting blade for $25 to ensure I would get through all the cutting of posts, rails and palings. (I can tell you that I have finished the fences and never needed to use the extra blade... this little saw is still going strong!)

The image below shows the fence posts ready for cutting.

This is the side fence on the garage side. I decided to take some photos with the neighbours side of the fence completed, and exposing the other side. All that is needed is for the palings to be attached.

You can really see the amount of concrete that went into the base of this fence.

In the end, the fence was quite straight and level, despite the fact that some of the timber was curved and twisted.