How To Repair Rotted Fence Post

Repairing a Fence Post – How to Remove and Replace an Old Fence Postal service

How to repair or supervene upon a contend postal service. Find out how to remove the erstwhile fence post and its concrete base of operations and the fit a new fence post in its identify. If a repair cannot exist done them you will have to supersede the old fence post - hither'south how to become about it.

About of the time repairing or replacing fence posts is a hugely awkward, difficult task. Commonly the existing wooden post has rotted at footing level because it has been concreted in past someone who did non take v minutes to trowel the top of the concrete to a slight dome allowing the pelting h2o to run off. Instead of that, the water sits on the physical, at the base of operations of the mail service, slowly rotting and weakening the post until the air current blows the argue panels and the post breaks.

Problem number 1 is the fact that the broken post has to exist removed from between the ii panels it is fixed to and problem number 2 is the fact that the bottom third of the post (Run across our project on concreting argue posts) is fixed firmly in a whole wheelbarrow load of concrete.

If you ignore both of these issues then simple remedies like fixing a debate post spur, shown on the left, are available to you.

Fixing a physical spur postal service involves excavation down aslope the old post and concreting in the new spur. It is always advisable to have, at the very least, 450mm of spur under the ground just 99% of the time the existing fence mail service concrete stops this happening. If you do not fix a spur solidly information technology actually helps the fence to wobble about even more than!

One answer is to pause out the concrete or pull out the whole lump. The concrete can exist broken fairly hands with the right tools and these tin be seen in our breaking concrete project. Once the physical, or some of it, is broken out a spur can be fitted properly but by the time you lot have got to this point you might be feeling its worth carrying on to remove all of the concrete and the one-time post, and beginning again with a new post and new concert. We would concord with you !

One small problem hither is that, once you have finally excavated all of the post and concrete, y'all take loosened all of the soil and have a gaping hole looking a little like a bomb crater!

This is easily rectified with some old timber and perhaps a couple of spare paving slabs which can be put inside the hole and used as "formwork" to grade a box within the hole and to concord the new physical in identify.

The image below shows an old hole with $.25 and pieces of timber pushed in to course new sides around the post in the centre. Some earth is pushed in behind these pieces of timber and then when the concrete is tipped in the earth will stop the new sides (Also known as shuttering or formwork) from pushing out.

Every bit long equally you accept half-dozen inches of concrete either side of the postal service it will be strong. Refer to our concreting posts project to see how to go on the water from the tiptop of the concrete.

New concrete into an old hole — New physical into an former hole

The last way of effecting a proper repair to a debate is to ignore the broken mail service hole completely. This is more of a major task but there are situations where it is far more practical than other methods. Information technology also involves cut a argue console downwardly which is a really handy thing to know how to practice anyway. See our project on cutting downwardly fence panels.

The image above shows the broken post (A). This post is removed and cut off at the very top of the concrete so it finishes below ground level. This leaves the two fence panels flapping in the breeze so they need to be taken off too. Presuming the fence panels are 6 foot panels, dig 2 new fence post holes in positions D and E and using our project on concreting fence posts, put 2 new posts in.

New panelled fence — New panelled debate

One of the panels you take removed is now fitted between posts D and East and the other panel is cut in half and the two halves are fitted between C and D and E and B.

Yes, information technology is noticeable only if the next door neighbours has a patio which comes right upwards to the fence………..How many choices have you got ?!

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