Building a Picket Fence | Setting the Posts
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Published 2016-04-15
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All Comments (21)
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I love to see the family with the pets as well, lovely. The dog is gorgeous. Nice job.
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I love the dog taking advantage of a hole already dug to bury and hide that ball for later! Smart dog
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Must be so nice to dig holes in soil! Our garden is pretty much solid clay, took more than 25 minutes to dig one hole!!!
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A bit of extra concrete sloping away from the posts on all sides, helps water drain away rather than sit at ground level rotting the wood.
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Came in here to see about setting posts....but that dog....is absolutely adorable. Cutest ever
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Wrap the bottom of the fence post in Denzil tape best thing ever for preventing rot.
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Post saver sleeves are really good or a good coating of bitumen paint in contact with soil helps keep these post going for a lot longer.
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Just a tip for everyone. Gravel in the bottom of the hole is absolutely not necessary. It wont hurt to do it but doesn't really help. Ive dug out 100s of posts in my time and that is the last bit to rot. Pay more attention to where the post meets the ground. Post saver wrap or bituminous paint. Youll increase the life of your fence massively 👍
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Can you wrap the bottom of the post in a bit of visqueen? And then concrete round that?
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came for the DIY, stayed for the dog and other critters too, thank you:-)!
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Please involve that gorgeous Spaniel in future posts!! Great post, but he/she was the star for me.
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Thanks for the upload.
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Good job guys.
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Pouring dry concrete mix around the post will only promote rotting in the long run. Concrete wicks and holds moisture, which is retained between the wood and the post. This in turn ends up eventually saturating the post, encouraging wood fungi.
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that dog wiggling his tail...I wanna super hug em!! ;))
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What a great dog! Nice helpful video. Thanks!
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Smart job mate! Little tip for you that will save you hundreds in the future! Rather than concrete, leave your soil near you hole and use it to back fill around your post. All you need to do is basically remove any air from the soil by tamping it in nice and tight, few inches at a time. It's a dodle to do if you have a digging bar with a round flat piece on one end as the weight of the bar will do the work for you. And when your post eventually rots off, super easy to replace! Cheers!
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Diy building privacy fence
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How far apart did you set the posts?
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For ease of levelling and fixing the postcrete method is great, but if you have more help and time, I always simply use coarse and fine gravel and a sledge hammer with a piece of wood to compact around the post, this way the posts will last over 20 years.
