"MissJuggs" wrote in message
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I bought some trellis today to put on a wooden fence

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You will need a gap say, of half an inch between trellis and fence. To
achieve this, you will need to screw 2 vertical battens (strips of wood) to
the fence and then screw the trellis to the battens. If you trellis opens up
to 4 foot wide by 5 foot high, your battens would each measure half inch by
one inch by 5 foot.

I think the wood on the fence is quite hard: I can put panel pins in,
or put screws in. Should I drill holes for the screws first?

Use screws, 3 per batten and drill first. If you're unsure as to what size
drill to use, then test drill and screw in some scrap wood.

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This has to be connected to brick.

Similar method as per wooden fence, but to fix the batten to the brickwork,
you will need a hammer-drill and some 'rawlplugs' to fix the screws into the
brick. I would suggest you tackle the wooden fence yourself, but you will
need to get help with the brick project - it's quite tricky and you could do
a lot of damage.

Pete