From Fast and Easy to Advanced and Time Consuming: Three Ideas for Patching a Cyclone Fence
A hole in your cyclone fencing can render your fence virtually useless at keeping your dog in, keeping deer out or performing whatever other task you have the fence for. Fortunately, it is possible to fix a hole in a cyclone fence. Here's a look at the options from the easiest and the fastest to the most comprehensive.
1. Easy and fast
To cover a hole in a cyclone fence, you can use a bit of chicken wire or rabbit netting. Buy a roll or sheet of the mesh you are using for patching, and cut a patch slightly larger than your hole. Use plastic zip ties to attach the patch to the fence. Alternatively, small pieces of wire wrapped around the mesh and the fence can also work to hold the patch in place.
2. Medium difficulty and timing
In some cases, you can buy a patch for a cyclone fence. This type of patch emulates the weave you find on a cyclone fence and can be made from old cyclone fencing. To start, clean up the edges around the hole by cutting off stray pieces of wire and making the area look like intact diamond shapes.
Hold the patch over the hole. Around the edges of the patch, you should have pieces of wire that extend beyond the patch. Using pliers, wrap these pieces of wire around the corresponding pieces of wire framing the hole in the fence. When all the wire ends have been wrapped around the metal next to them, the patch should be firmly in place.
3. Advanced and time consuming
Although this method of patching a cyclone fence is the most time consuming, it's also the most effective. To start, you may want to loosen the tension hardware at the top and bottom edges of the fence. This makes the wire easier to work with. Now, you are going to remove every piece of wire that would run through the hole if there wasn't a hole.
Essentially, you are going to remove several pieces of wire that run through the entire fence. Then, you are going to replace these elements with new pieces of wire, which you are going to weave through the fence, starting at the top and weaving in and out of the openings to the bottom of the fence. When every piece of wire has been replaced, you can tighten the fence and replace the tension hardware.
These are all patching jobs you can do yourself, or you can hire a fencing contractor to help you and make the job look seamless.
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