Deck Privacy Fence - Louvered DIY

Well our back yard was a mess when we moved in several years ago when we moved in. The previous owners had a huge hot tub they used a crane to remove before we arrived. That’s when I went to it first giving away the fencing to anyone that would remove it themselves. This works much better than I could have ever anticipated. Then I pried and removed the dozens of concrete slabs. These are the oldies and goodies and actually fetched a decent $.

But it wasnt till last year on our 3rd summer here did we get the big stuff accomplished. After planning and discussing and disagreeing on what we wanted, the cost of living with me and a landscape architect. Finally we had a plan and set out in the early spring bringing it to life.

Now we are working on summer number 4 and the majority is tucked away with the last being those privacy fences. Long story short they had to be done at the end.

There was concern that the privacy fences would block too much breeze in the heat of the day, so I had to brainstorm how to make both of us happy. I was pretty set on the horizontal board style to the trick was to create something with removable panels on the bottom section for snow shoveling, (that will be a dream when the snow hits), and a way to open but not remove the upper portions to allow that airflow.

This is what I came up with, using the similar dimensioned lumber as I used to build the several sections of fence the previous year. I drew this up on my IPad knowing that I wanted to create a way to keep the front facing contiguous with the 1x1 trimming up next to the post connections, but needing more meat to affix a hinge to I opted to run the heavier 2x2 on the back side. And hinged to the top trim board.

There was concern that the 2x2 and the panels as a whole wouldn’t be sturdy enough, but….that proved not to be the case at all. I did opted to screw each board into the 2x2 and nail the 1x1 to the panels front side.

Tip: if you decide to try this, be sure to give yourself wiggle room on your sides so the panel can swing freely. Our posts were horribly warped so we had to accommodate for that.

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