This Halloween, if you've got some tombstones "floating" colse to your yard, why not anchor them down and give your cemetery some definition with a graveyard fence?
Categories: Decoration. Bigger is better. Cheaper is better.
Halloween Decorations
Skill level: Easy, but does need a tool to cut hard material.
Time needed: 30 minutes.
Expense: - per 10 foot section
"Grave Yard Fence"
Believe it or not, the market have caught on to development these, and they're dying to sell you a tiny section (maybe 3-5 feet) for fifteen bucks! It'll take a large heritage to have a decent length of graveyard fence. Once you've made or bought all of your marvelous tombstones, you'll want to "finish off" the supervene by fencing 'em in. (The fence can also be used along the walk-way or for many other non-graveyard Halloween decorating applications.)
We're not saying this is the best looking cemetery fence. Indeed, it's pretty sloppy. But when installed colse to the yard, it in effect adds an extra touch. And "at these prices" you can in effect cover some large territory for only a few dollars. Note: This must be pounded into the ground---so it must be used on grass or dirt. This is not a free-standing decoration.
Ingredients:
Pvc pipe, half inch diameter.
Gray and or Black Spray Paint.
Tape: electrical or masking or cellophane.
Tools: hacksaw, hammer, tape-measure.
Pvc (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe is that white, seemingly plastic pipe that comes in 3-10 ft sections at your local home center. It comes in varied diameters and it's often used for sprinkler water piping. It has many, many uses in liquid transportation, but we're concerned in it because it is in effect inexpensive!
You will need two 10 ft. Lengths of Pvc pipe (1/2 inch diameter) for every ten feet of yard that you want to span. (You Do Not need a truck to haul this-stay tuned.) The only presume I did not list this adornment as Super easy is because a non-craft tool of some sort will be needed to cut the pipe. Although it is rather soft and easy, it takes more than a pair of scissors. You will probably want to use a hack-saw because most households have one. If you don't, cheap hacksaws (and a newer version that looks somewhat like a serrated knife) is available for a few bucks. Whether bring your hacksaw with you to the home town (and leave it in the car) or buy a cheap one at the home center. buy the whole of piping you'll need. Bring it out to your vehicle. If you have and Suv, you'll probably get it to fit inside. If you don't, just cut the 10 ft. Pipes in half (into 5 ft sections) and toss 'em into the car.
Once home, cut four 2.5 foot sections (out of Whether the five foot sections or the ten foot sections that you brought home) for every ten feet of yard length you want to span. You should end up with Whether a ten foot length or two five foot lengths and 4 2.5 foot lengths for each 10 feet of yard. Truthfully, I propose you just cut the ten foot lengths into five foot sections as well. Two reasons: It tends to look best in the finished project, and it's easier to store for next year.
Most Pvc piping has annoyingly inconvenient maker information printed along the side of it. Make sure you cover that over when you are spray painting it. Take your black and/or gray spray paint and "coat to taste." Some of you may like totally gray fences. Some may like black with a powdering of gray on top. I prefer naturally powdering my white fence with black. A completely black fence is not recommended because No One will see it! (And they may even trip over it.) That brings up a good security tip: Keep the fence in areas that habitancy will not be crossing. It is okay to have it alongside a walkway, but note that this fence is for adornment only. It will not have any capability whatsoever to withstand any force of any kind!
Once you have your sections of Pvc, this project is ready for "installation." This project must be finished "on site," so if it's not time to in effect put up the Halloween Decorations, then put it aside until the big day.
Once you are ready to install the fence, take a tape measure and lay a 2.5' pipe every 2.25 feet along the ground that you will be fencing in. (Yes, I wrote 2.25 feet! You must have some overlap on your top pieces to 'tie' them together.) Note: be sure there are not electrical or water or other "lines" running under the ground where you will be inserting these pipes. Next, get your trusty hammer and pound those 2.5 pipe "stakes" into the ground. (No need to be "level" or straight. In fact, I encourage some sloppy tilting and angling. (You can also add More vertical stakes in in the middle of at random...just to "add" to the sloppy, irregular, haunted effect. )This is a "haunted" fence! Just make sure the angling is along the direction of the route of the fence. All of the pipe-tops must be attached to a coarse railway.) Keep pounding until the pipe is sturdy enough to stand and endure some wobbling or tampering from provocative "living" visitors.
Once the rows of pipes are sticking into the ground colse to your yard (be it grave yard or other), you are ready to attach the cross lengths (railway) to the top of your stakes. For this, use just about any kind of tape you can find. I adored working with the electrical tape. It's in effect a matter of choice. Lift the Pvc rail pipe (the five or ten foot section) up towards the top of the first pipe. Wrap that tape colse to the stake pipe and the rail pipe criss-crossing over each a few times. Next, go to the far pipe, lift up the other end and do the same. You may want to, again, keep things "non-level. It's recommended to put a miniature slant in the railway. Lastly, tape the two inside vertical stakes to the horizontal top rail. Voila!
You will continue this policy down the length of your fence. If you followed. You will note that, since we settled the stakes into the ground every 2.5 feet, there will be overlap on the top rail. This is so you can "splice" together each section of top rail for each five or ten foot section of fence. naturally vertically overlap the two top rails at the "joint." Again, sloppy comes out looking just fine.
For an added "touch", you can cover the tape with small lengths of rope. I personally used the fence where habitancy would not be looking it "close-up" so I did not bother. An added touch: Use your spider webbing on the fence!
That's all there is to it. When I was putting this together I was thinking, oh this isn't going to look so good. But I will tell you, once installed, it in effect added a exquisite touch along the walkways and the tombstone graveyard. It's an additional one Halloween adornment that I keep in my bag-o-tricks.
When Halloween is over, naturally unwrap or cut the tape off and store the rods for next year's graveyard.
A Quick, Easy and Dirt Cheap Graveyard Fence For Halloween
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