How to Use hardware cloth in a Sentence

hardware cloth

noun
  • Dig out the old soil and put a layer of hardware cloth on the bottom.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The hardware cloth above and below the ground helps control the gophers.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
  • Patches of hardware cloth also cling to the bottom of the fence.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • Use this hardware cloth around garden beds and on top of bulbs, which will sprout right through it.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 18 May 2021
  • To protect trees over winter, use ¼-inch wire hardware cloth, spaced 1 to 2 inches from the trunk.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • Each tree gets a guard, such as plastic spirals or scratchy wire called hardware cloth, on the base to protect it from mice or pests.
    Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • We were told to be sure to provide lots of ventilation, so made a coop that has an entire wall of hardware cloth.
    oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Exclusion might be as easy as plugging a hole with steel wool or blocking it with hardware cloth.
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Use a smaller aperture hardware cloth rather than chicken wire.
    Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • So for a fence to work, hardware cloth needs to extend down least 2 feet down — the limit the squirrels are willing to tunnel — and the openings in the fence need to be small enough to prevent them pushing through.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
  • Use hardware cloth or metal screening with at least a 1.2 mm gauge to ensure strength and durability.
    Caroline Collins McKenzie, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Protect trees from bark-chewing animals by placing hardware cloth or other wire mesh around the trunk.
    oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • If your neighborhood features burrowing animals like voles, staple ¼ or ½-inch hardware cloth to the bottom of the frame to keep them out.
    Fiona Gilsenan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Be made of smooth, solid material or one-quarter inch or finer hardware cloth or wire mesh.
    Erin Stone, azcentral, 8 June 2020
  • They are best managed by setting up barriers such as covering the planting site with hardware cloth.
    Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
  • One fairly cheap way is to use 1/4-inch hardware cloth cut in strips wide enough to overlap the bottom of the fence so it can be tacked securely and extend down into a narrow trench six inches deep.
    Rose Kennedy, ajc, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Use 1/4-inch hardware cloth for enclosures instead of chicken wire, which raccoons can easily pull apart and small rodents can squeeze through.
    Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Nolan's solution included lining the bottom of the bed with 6 inches of water-absorbent sphagnum moss and a layer of hardware cloth.
    Kendra Parks, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The best cage is easy to build: Just buy a roll of quarter-inch or half-inch hardware cloth, a.k.a. chicken wire, and wrap it around the plant to keep rodents, rabbits and other nibblers from eating it before it can become established.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Using hardware cloth with ¼-inch mesh, fashion a cylinder about 18 inches in diameter and 24 inches tall.
    Doug Hall, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
  • Wire Cylinder Using hardware cloth with ¼-inch mesh, fashion a cylinder about 18 inches in diameter and 24 inches tall.
    Doug Hall, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2016
  • Unfortunately, my hardware cloth barrier extends only 6 inches above the ground.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
  • Corrigan advises using a specific material — galvanized, 16-gauge, ¼-inch hardware cloth.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022

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