What is under your fence?

[Cold Drink]

If you have a fence around your pool, what is underneath it? grass? stones? cement? paver blocks? I inherited a house with a pool with a chain link fence with rocks underneath it and the whole pool area is lined with scalloped bricks. I'd like to get rid of the rocks and the bricks but I'm not sure what to replace them with. If I plant grass under the fence I'll have to weed wack under it. And it would take a lot of concrete pavers if I used those. I'm also not sure what to do about the fence, its got so much rust I'm thinking I might have to replace the whole thing. So, I'm taking a poll to see what other people have under their fence. And, what types of fence do most people have around their pool, chain link, vinyl?

- Tom

[CarlD]

I deleted your double thread. Please try not to start two threads on the same topic.

[sevver]

I have a fence around my yard, and around my pool, on one half, is hardscape, brick paver sidewalk, around the other side, where the future deck is going to be, is a border of mulch, which I have to weed frequently. Once the deck is up, I will probably mulch all under it and maybe plant hosta under there, and possibly fern or some other shade loving non invasive plant.

[smokeygrl]

We have a split rail fence around our yard. We have small dogs so we also have a plastic coated wire fencing that we have wrapped around it and stapled to the wooden rails.
We have to weed wack - and wacking that metal fencing really eats up the nylon line. The fence was there when we moved in. Hubby says he wishes we installed it because he would have rented a turf cutter and cut out the area where the fence would go and just hit it with mulch and weed-b-gone.

[sevver]

Get some RoundUp, put it in a sprayer, go around the fence, once the grass dies, put some fabric down, and four inches of mulch. I don't use fabric, but I have to weed a bit. I tend to split and move plants around alot and don't want to have to cut holes in the fabric all of the time, which is why I don't use it. I have basically set my yard up though to minimize weed wacking, I edge the mulch beds twice a year, and mow, I have a small bit of weed wacking to do, about twice a month.

[Cold Drink]

Sorry about the double thread. It was unintentional. The first time I tried to submit, it had me login again and then it said the forum doesn't exist, so I submitted again. I didn't notice the double post.

I was thinking of mulch but wasn't sure if the rain would cause the mulch to run into the pool. Or if it would stick to people's feet and end up in the bottom of the pool. Sometimes the rocks do but its easy to get those out. I might replace the green chain link fence we have now thats rusting with a new black coated chain link that is less obtrusive. Except, I'd have to pull out all the concrete thats holding the posts in. Or, I keep the silver posts and put black fence on silver posts. Anybody have any experience with this?

[sevver]

I have an above ground pool, you have an inground pool? As long as the mulch is ultimatly lower than the concrete around your pool and the ground slopes away that should keep it from flowing into it.

And, if you pull out all of the concrete and the posts with it, then you can put new posts in the same hole and reconcrete them in there. That will save a big mess in itself. I have wondered if there were a way to "sleeve" the original posts, I also have a green chainlink and would eventually like to get a black one, and sleeving the posts would be alot easier, then I could just get a new top rail.

[Cold Drink]

I was also thinking that it would be nice if they made some sort of black plastic sleeve to put over the posts. I'm assuming painting them black wouldn't last very long. Maybe I should just pull out the fence posts and install all new. I guess I'd need to buy a fence stretcher.

Stupid question: Do pool chemical fumes contribute to the rust on a surrounding fence? Just wondering if I put up a whole new chain link fence if its just going to rust again because its next to a pool.

- Tom

[cleancloths]

I've got a plastic coated chainlink fence that has grass around it on all sides. Not that big a deal to maintain.