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Every GaugeYard guide filed under Outdoor Building. Practical, plain-English walkthroughs, ranked on what actually matters.

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Sunlit dimensional timber standing in a mown lawn, square uprights carrying two horizontal rails with a run of vertical boards continuing beyond them, an orange tape measure lying open on the grass in the foregroundLatest in Outdoor Building
Outdoor Building

How to Calculate Deck Boards and Joists

This manual counts a deck from the boards down: area into linear feet, rows and the gap, the diagonal penalty, then joists, beams, footings and clips.

· 40 min readRead the guide →
A partly built wooden fence in a grassy yard, square timber posts standing in a line with two horizontal rails between them and one section already covered with vertical boards, an extended tape measure and a string lying on the grass in frontOutdoor Building

How to Calculate Fence Materials (Posts and Rails)

This manual counts a fence from the runs out: sections plus one post per run, rails by the section, pickets from width plus gap, and the concrete per hole.

· 38 min read