Patent ID: 8631551

Claim:
A method for assembling a fence, comprising steps of: installing one or more fence posts; attaching one or more brackets to the fence posts with one or more brace band attachments; attaching one or more adjustable rail hangers to the one or more brackets; providing two or more of fence panels, each of the two or more fence panels having one or more rails attached thereto; splicing together the two or more fence panels to form a contiguous fence section by inserting one or more tubular splices into the one or more rails of adjacent fence panels; positioning the contiguous fence section directly onto the one or more fence posts; securing the contiguous fence section to the one or more fence posts by attaching the one or more rails to the one or more adjustable rail hangers attached to the one or more brackets; and hanging one or more gates onto one or more jambs integrated with the contiguous fence section.