Fixing Wooden Fence Posts To Concrete

Use lag bolts or screws to attach the metal post bracket to the concrete.

Fixing wooden fence posts to concrete.

For a wooden fence you re going to need a few spare 2x4x8s to create some bracing for your fence panels. Keep digging until you create a half circle gap between the ground and concrete. While some companies make metal post brackets to mount wood posts to concrete a privacy fence built with metal posts can outlast a wood fence by decades. Or run additional timber across these to form a framework to attach the fence panels to.

You ve seen fences like this. You could fix timber to the existing concrete posts using the existing wire holes. With a shovel break into the ground surrounding the fence post s concrete base. With a chainlink fence this is usually as simple as removing the retaining clips and the post cap to free it from the fence panel.

Then run panels across the front using the timber to fix to. Top the gravel with rapid set cement mix powder to. In order to straighten your post you re going to need to free it from the rest of the fence structure. By holding the fence post in an upright position you will likely notice a gap between the wood and the concrete base that the post is set in this is where the post mender will go to stabilize the post in this position.

Mark the location of the holes in a metal post bracket on the concrete. If possible dig a hole that is as deep as the concrete itself giving the post as much wiggle room as possible. To begin reinforcing the post dig a few inches of soil away from it around the perimeter. Start by setting the post mender in the gap between the post and the concrete base.

This fence is not leaning the wood posts have actually broken off at the ground and the entire fence will need to be replaced. Dig a hole around 1 side of the fence post. Fill the hole with approximately 6 inches of gravel. Insert lead shields into the holes in the concrete.