First check with your municipality about height restrictions. Next you should get the county surveyor out if this will be a fence dividing the property line. You don't want to go through all that work and find out it was installed in the wrong spot. And I highly suggest hiring out the post hole digging. It is back breaking work. Depth of posts depends on what part of the country you live in. Here are some sites to get you started!
Buy Treated Lumber and the corresponding coatings on the fasteners.
It will cost you 5% more for treated lumber and it will never be termite eaten.
The 8’ wood fence between my neighbor and I live, is falling over because of the termites eating the non-treated posts. (yes 8’ is legal where I live).
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First check with your municipality about height restrictions. Next you should get the county surveyor out if this will be a fence dividing the property line. You don't want to go through all that work and find out it was installed in the wrong spot. And I highly suggest hiring out the post hole digging. It is back breaking work. Depth of posts depends on what part of the country you live in. Here are some sites to get you started!
https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/outdoors/structures/10-things-you-must-know-about-installing-a-fence-pictures
https://www.familyhandyman.com/garden-structures/fences/build-a-privacy-fence/
https://m.wikihow.com/Build-a-Wood-Fence
https://youtu.be/1YyvDtivSBw
Here are all kinds of ideas for privacy fences from right here on Hometalk: https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=privacy%20fence
To add to Naomi’s comments:
Buy Treated Lumber and the corresponding coatings on the fasteners.
It will cost you 5% more for treated lumber and it will never be termite eaten.
The 8’ wood fence between my neighbor and I live, is falling over because of the termites eating the non-treated posts. (yes 8’ is legal where I live).