Privacy Walls

Greg Di

How are you guys building privacy walls these days?

We usually run the posts down to footings in the ground to stabilize the wall. I don't think it makes any sense to take a 6' 4x4 and attach it to 7.5" of joist and expect it to be solid.

Hey, if there's a better way, I'm all ears.

Any cool designs you've come up with? We usually just do shadow box style for economy's sake but I'm sick of them.

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Golden Rule

I used 4x12 for my outside rim joist and attached the wall with timberloks... lots of them...its lasted thru some really nice wind storms...heavy heavy wall. solid 4x4 framing w/ trex.

genecarp

nice design, you even got the robe hooks in...

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Stone Mountain

Hey Greg. If you look on my website, I have a number of privacy screens that you could copy or modify as you wish.

For structure, we usually mount the 4x4 post to the header AND a joist, or if a joist isn't convenient, we block it on at least 1 other side. Makes it nice and strong, and won't move. We did an 8' high x 24 ft long screen last summer, and even though 3 weeks ago we had a massive windstorm, not a peep from the customer.
It's really not necessary to sink the post in concrete.

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Golden Rule

Thanks Gene .