I don't want to mention much about it until it is done, but I had to correct an error. The existing chicken wire is black vinyl-coated. Because of a silly mistake in thinking of the length of the sides, I was two 50' rolls short of complete coverage.
So I ordered more. Wrong type. Non-vinyl-coated and gray. I envisioned it. Alternate strips of black and gray... Functionally irrelevent. But it would have bothered me for 20 years. So I ordered 2 rolls of the black vinyl-coated chicken wire today. Should arrive in several days
Better to pay to make something right in a week than be annoyed for 20 years... I'll find a use for the gray chicken wire elsewhere eventually.
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Good decision Mark. But couldn't you have returned the grey stuff that you didn't want?
Megan
Sydney, Australia
Well, I try to take responsibility for my purchases. If the supplier gets it wrong, I do certainly make them correct things. But when I get it wrong, I accept it. After I unrolled both rolls of the new chicken wire, I suddenly thought "WHOA this isn't black vinyl-covered chicken wire" and I checked my order with Amazon. It was MY mistake.
When I make a mistake, I pay for it. But I'll find a use for it soon enough. Right now, I'm thinking "deer barrier" around my hostas in the front yard. Not the prettiest deer-barrier, but it might not take much to keep them away. Not as a fence, but as a ground cover a foot high. I bet they wouldn't like walking on it!
Fair enough.
Megan
Sydney, Australia
Good idea to me. And one of my sons has 9 deer rolling and messing up his back yard every single day. He can't feed the birds any more..he can't have plants...it's bad.
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