Renovating our new house

[TenFour]

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10,000 volt fence required

them damned hyenas turn on the beta males that capture them and then welp your dogs dead.

All she would need is the type of electric fencing used for horses. Low volts high amperage. Easy to install and cheap.

you dont understand me at all

[SuZ]

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Was that sand or unfinished cement under that floor? That knotty pine is really nice!

What about putting a small gravel area in a little used spot and teach the dogs to poop and pee there? They're young enough that you should be able to do that with relative ease. If they're diggers that's a whole 'nuther problem. I had a dog that liked to dig and it was really a problem because he liked to dig where there was foot traffic.

Ya know, that might be a good idea for thieves! dig a few holes in key locations and cover them during the day and uncover to expose them at night. You could even get creative and make "planter covers" and grow grass on top of them so they blend in nicely. Oh hell.... dig them 24" diameter and 6' deep! anyone trespassing and falling into them will be stuck until the police arrive!

You could let the dogs out to pee on them too.

No no, the wood was under the carpet. Like a hidden treasure.

We got someone in to sand and seal it and that was the end result.

Only thing driving my other half insane is the dogs that leave scratches on the floor. I try keep their nails trimmed but its a mission to get them to sit still.

I think the biggest problem is the Urine and the running that kills the grass.

I like your trap idea!

I always wonder just why people put wall to wall carpet over finished wood floors.

If you want carpet rather than the wood, the right thing to do is to lay area rugs and leave an exposed wood perimeter. That way the class look of the wood is still there and if you choose correctly the rug will accent the look.

The house I grew up in had linoleum tiles in the kitchen, hallway and bathroom.......wall to wall carpet over unfinished wood in the living room, one bedroom linoleum and the other carpet over wood like the living room and the dining room was finished hardwood with an area rug. There was a 19" perimeter of exposed wood that we kept waxed and polished.

Once a year (spring) we would empty the room, take up the rug and wax the whole floor.

It looked very high class in a middle class home.

I also thought it was silly that the wood was hidden for so many years. But then again, it was protected by the carpet and now we got to have untouched hardwood floors. Really changed the feel of the house.

Next mission is to get the grass growing again in the back yard. Its hard with two great danes...

Ill try get you guys before pics

Have you tried any of those 'grass guard' treats for your dogs? It can help balance their pH level… so, they don't damage the grass so much.

No! Never heard of it ever, I'll see if I can find it online

[SuZ]

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I hope this pic comes out OK, I couldn't preview my post

[Twitchin Kitten]

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It is a little small on the blow up - next time set your camera to a larger image for posting.

Sadly you can't preview an attached / uploaded image because it's not technically in the database yet. Once you hit send it processes it and stuffs it in the thread.

Looks like you have some hilly terrain in the yard? I can't be sure because the fences shadow gives the illusion that you used a fish-eye lens.

Looks like a nice sized yard though!

When we uncovered our floors we had quite the surprise. It was DISGUSTING under there. Beautiful honey colored oak floors soaked with pee all over the house. They masked it with linoleum and then carpet over it. When we moved here the dogs started breaking training and pissing all over. I couldn't take it and ripped out all the rugs. Sand, pee, disintegrating carpet padding and badly stained floors.

We sanded and cleaned and refinished with a satin finish and left the natural light color. I later found out the people here had a virtual menagerie - dogs, cats and fucking MONKEYS! Who the hell keeps monkeys?

[LKTraz]

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It's the same thing LK.

Not entirely.

The difference is the size of the transformer. For cattle you use a higher voltage so you need to get the larger unit and that's the price difference. Also for cattle you will tend to use a slightly larger gauge fence wire due to higher voltage and heavier animals. It's essentially the same thing but a different model if you will.

Barb's dad uses the lower voltage for the goats and had the bigger unit for the cow because she just trampled through the goat fence.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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She trampled through it because cows are stupid. When I was married we had a fence company that specialized in animal enclosures. It's not the size of the wire or the transformer. It's all about the amperage. We worked from farms to zoos across the nation. Most DIY guys will do like her dad does.

[SuZ]

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I would love any kind of fence right around the house, but I think it's going to cost a shitload of moneys.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Well check your laws on the electric fencing. Here you cannot have it of any sort in suburban areas. It's strictly for farm use. I did sneak a wire around the top of a fence I had here to keep the dogs from jumping over the fence since it was a short height. Then I bought this house and we have a proper 6' high fence.

You can DIY the fence. Bitch of a job and you need to know exactly what the property lines are and the regulations for which way the fence faces. Here we have to put the nice side facing out. In the city we were able to put the nice side facing in except the parts facing the street. The reason this was acceptable was because properties were right up against each other and you never saw the "bad side".

There are a lot of creative options if you just look into them. We had to do the fence first due to the fact we have pit bulls and can't risk them running amok loose if they ever got out!