Wood Fence Installation Tips: Installing Posts and Pickets

[youmrdaddy1]

That's a great how to video but in my opinion, you should never use presure treated lumber for fence materials. 9 times out of 10 the wood will warp and twist as soon as the sun dries them. Cedar is always good as long as you seal the wood. I've installed many cedar fences and never seen it twist like presure treated lumber. On top of that, who wants a green fence?

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[trackend]

Pitch or bitumastic paintng the below ground post end will add many years of life to your fence posts remember to leave an inch of treated post above the ground as this is the main rot point

[latinwito13]

This guy dont know how to built a a wood fence

[MyRumplestiltskin]

Whatever you do DON"t use pressure treated wood for a fence. Use either a vinyl or cedar for your fence. I built a fence using pressure treated wood and had the fence line straight as an arrow. Less than a year later it looks like a crooked stick because pressure treated lumber warps and twist due to the sun drying out the wood. But just in case you don't heed my advice and decide to build a wood fence then at least buy your 4x4 post from home depot because their 4x4 post are square on the ends.

[closetheloop]

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[Daryl1876]

The Pride of Lowe!

[jg8479]

use rebar to mix the water and crete up with?

[AndRock238]

Are you using pressure treated wood for the posts and stringers and cedar for the pickets?

[jg8479]

the clamp and brace method is not necessary. Us fence builders never do it. The concrete will hold the post in place.also rather than put gravel at the bottom of the hole ( posts will eventually sink ) you can set the post just using concrete and pull the post up a couple inches and let them float in the concrete. This method is most common on commercial and industrial fences. if you dry pour the concrete its best to mix it in the hole with rebar or the concrete wont set to full strength

[therockkkkher]

@jg8479 hey bud, " if you dry pour concrete in the hole , mix it with rebar " you mean to actually add rebar to the hole or just use rebar to mix the water and crete up with?

[talkingman]

Robert: We have a highly skilled, highly trained audio technician on the job. And thanks!

Mike

[paulyhart]

yaaaaaaaaaay POST

[AllBellsPalsyInfo]

How do you achieve such exellent audio quality on your videos?

Nice fence by the way

Robert.