How to Make a Perfect Right Angle on a Fence
- 1). Mark the fence line with stakes and mason's string. Place a stake on the outside of the corner with a hammer and connect the corner stakes to the previous stakes with mason's string. Place another stake 3 feet out from the corner stake along the line, using a hammer.
- 2). Mark the adjacent side by positioning the end of a tape measure at the outside corner stake and out along the adjacent, connecting side. Open the tape measure to extend beyond the 4-foot mark and lock it in place, pressing the lock button.
- 3). Position the end of a different tape measure at the 3-foot stake on the first side and open it past the 5-foot mark. Lock it in place.
- 4). Angle the second tape measure toward the first, intersecting them at the 5-foot mark. This gives you the diagonal measurement. Angle the second tape measure while it's still intersected at the 4-foot mark for the perpendicular measurement.
- 5). Run a mason's string from the stake the two tape measures are at to the outside corner stake. The 3-foot and 4-foot mason's string forms the right angle for the fence. Extend or shorten the mason's string if needed.
- 6). Stake out the exact dimensions for the rest of the fence according to your map.
