How to Build a Low Fence

Walk your property line or the boundary where you plan to build your low fence. Drop garden rocks at each corner and at 8-feet intervals. At the corners, you'll install your corner posts. You'll dig holes for your fence posts at the intervals.

Dig your corner postholes using a hand-auger or a posthole digger. Each hole should be 24 inches deep and twice as wide as the corner post. Install one corner post at a time.

Center the corner post in the hole. Add a shovelful of backfill and a shovelful of pea gravel to the hole to improve drainage. Fill the rest of the hole with backfill, tamping the ground firmly when the hole is half-filled and again when the hole is completely filled.

Screw eye hooks into your corner posts. Place eye hooks 18 inches above the ground and 12 inches from the top of each post. These will secure your fence wires.

Wrap a length of fence wire around the bottom eye hook of your first corner post. Staple the end to the post.

Stretch the wire and pull it taut to your first fence post. Weave the wire around the lip of the post at a spot 18 inches above the ground to keep it level with the corner post. Staple the wire to fiberglass posts.

Repeat the process until you've completed the fence circuit for the bottom wire. Clip the wire and staple it in place when you've returned to the first corner post.

Wrap a length of fence wire around the top eye hook of your first corner post. Repeat the process of stringing the wire, pulling it taut at each fence post and corner post until the top wire is complete.