Timeskip, because a detailed description of repairing stuff is boring.
And I'm lazy.
I looked over the house. The fence was taller, and about 3 inches thinker due to the bricks stacked in front of it. The house was now boarded up, with iron bars on the other side of each window. I had taken an entire section out, building a tower in it's place. An extension to the house joined mine with the one next to it, which had it's door covered with sheet metal and bricks. Barbed wire loomed on top of the now 7 foot high fence, and the gate was covered in about an inch of sheet metal.