If the fabric itself had stretched, the dip would spread evenly along the whole line, and every diamond would open a little wider than the ones packed against the end post.

Pull a string line across a yard that drops toward the back corner, and the string stays dead level while the ground underneath it keeps falling away.

The rail at the top of your stairs moves about a quarter inch before it takes any weight.

The bed along the front walk looked finished in April. Two rows of leaf lettuce, a run of drip tube, and a line of low cedar pickets around the whole thing.

PVC expands when heated and contracts when cooled. That is a property of the material, and every brand of vinyl fence does it.

Why does a wood fence installed five years ago need a hand run over it every spring, while the vinyl fence next to it doesn't?

A swing gate needs open ground to sweep through. A sliding gate needs open ground to slide past.

The gate used to swing shut the second the sensor cleared. Lately it hangs open a beat too long, then eases closed like it's thinking about it.