How to attach a tarp to wooden beams set specific distances apart that don't align with grommet spacing?
Our recently purchased house has a pool, but we like our privacy and the fence is not high enough to block the view from neighbors' windows. Instead of spending thousands on replacing the fence with a higher one, we want to DIY the cheap alternative of extending the height of the fence with tarps (we are not so fastidious about appearances). We bought some tarps, and my husband drilled tall wooden beams into the shorter wooden posts along the fence, and we want to screw through the tarp grommets into those wooden beams, but the grommet spacing doesn't line up with the fence post spacing. We could move our tall beams over to align with the grommets and then drill them into the fence rails (the beams that are parallel to the ground) but the posts are stronger than the rails and as it's an old fence that already is not super strong we'd rather keep our beams at the strongest point. I think we should screw through the grommets into the beams as we have them, leaving a sagging tarp, and then I am sure there must be a way to use some sort of cordage through the grommets to pull it up and taut. Does anyone have any suggestions on how exactly to do this? (As may be obvious, we don't have much DIY experience, so please ELI5 in your answers.) submitted by /u/-Avra- [link] [comments]
Our recently purchased house has a pool, but we like our privacy and the fence is not high enough to block the view from neighbors' windows. Instead of spending thousands on replacing the fence with a higher one, we want to DIY the cheap alternative of extending the height of the fence with tarps (we are not so fastidious about appearances). We bought some tarps, and my husband drilled tall wooden beams into the shorter wooden posts along the fence, and we want to screw through the tarp grommets into those wooden beams, but the grommet spacing doesn't line up with the fence post spacing. We could move our tall beams over to align with the grommets and then drill them into the fence rails (the beams that are parallel to the ground) but the posts are stronger than the rails and as it's an old fence that already is not super strong we'd rather keep our beams at the strongest point. I think we should screw through the grommets into the beams as we have them, leaving a sagging tarp, and then I am sure there must be a way to use some sort of cordage through the grommets to pull it up and taut. Does anyone have any suggestions on how exactly to do this? (As may be obvious, we don't have much DIY experience, so please ELI5 in your answers.)
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