I swear the men in my family are frickin' idiots! I asked a simple thing of DS. I even paid him to do it. I needed a gate for another chicken run. How hard can that be? Cut four measured pieces of 2 x 3s, screw them together into a rectagular shape, cover with welded wire, add one diagonal piece to keep gate from sagging, attach to wall with hinges. Make it exacly like one of the three gates I already have. Same size. I already have a piece of welded wire just the right size, might need to be trimmed to fit. Simple, simple, simple. I've been waiting two weeks for my gate. First DS & DH both say my piece of welded wire won't fit, it's not wide enough. Yes it is. No it's not. Did you check it? Yes. Then it fits, I know it fits, I already had it over the opening and the gate must be smaller than the opening. It fits. No it doesn't. I'm quite confused but I tell them to go ahead and use chicken wire then. So DS runs the chicken wire vertically. It's not wide enough for the gate either. So he just runs a second strip overlapping the first. Staples top, bottom, and one edge but not the other. It looks like ****, isn't stretched, and wouldn't keep nothin' out if it pushed up against the unattached vertical edge. Sigh. So I spent this the morning pulling staples to rotate the wire and staple all four sides. I ended up wasting about four feet of wire (in two pieces.) (And yes I know not to use staples but I don't have a problem with that here.) I get this gate done and take it out to hang it and it's six inches too wide! It won't fit the opening. I called DH (who's at Lowes getting me more chicken supplies) and he says yes, he was supervising, why?. Ugh!! Now I still need a gate. Next week it might be funny. Um, no, I doubt it, not funny.
