Have to replace two tommorrow.A friend told me that there is a metal pole that you can install in to the concrete the piers that has sides to it so you can drop the fence post just above the water line and then bolt the fence in with lag bolts. Is there such an item and where can they be purchased.
2007-03-25 12:55:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Installed fence 9 yrs ago and post are not cedar just the slats.
2007-03-25 13:07:25 · update #1
home depot sells a post stand-off. it will raise the post 1 inch above cement. drill 1/2 in hole in cement and use a 1/2 in redhead to anchor stand-off. screw post to stand-off.
2007-03-29 08:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by gary w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I think I've seen something like that at Home Depot. It's metal and accepts a 4 X 4 post. You pound it into the ground, and slide the wood post into it, put lag screws in it, and go drink a beer. Look in the section where they have mail boxes.
2007-03-25 13:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by skwonripken 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had cedar posts for 28 years. Replaced rails, but not posts. Are you sure they used cedar posts, as well as cedar fence? The installer should be responsible for that, if not cedar. I don;t know what the original contract specified.
2007-03-25 13:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE PROBLEM MAY BE THAT THE CONCRETE ANCHORING THE POST IS NOT OF SUFFICIENT HEIGHT ABOVE SOIL LEVEL AND BASIN SHAPED AROUND POST,IT SHOULD FORM ADOME SHAPE SO WATER RUNS AWAY FROM POST ALSO POST SHOULD CONTACT EARTH AT BOTTOM OF HOLE OTHERWISE WATER CANNOT WEEP INTO GROUND AND JUST STAYS IN CONCRETE HOLE AND CAUSES POST TO ROT PREMATURELY EVEN REDWOOD WILL ROT IF NOT INSTALLED PROPERLY
2007-03-27 04:02:48 · answer #4 · answered by Richard E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most post will rot in time,wet or dry, there is a fiberglass post that you can cement into ground and have the opion of filling it with another post, or cement, or just leaving it hollow,Homedepo or Lows carries them ,there is also that metal stake that you can cement most time its used for mailbox post,But Im sure it would work,try one if your happy then do the rest same, good luck
2007-03-26 14:04:00 · answer #5 · answered by beneryberlecco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they a post piliers that fit a 4x4 or the other that bolt through the side of the post. i suggest that treat the wood or purchance sundry wood the red stuff.
2007-03-25 14:36:16 · answer #6 · answered by lawrence c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋