Today folks, we are road-testing new landscaping skills after watching a few of those online teach-yourself-how-to-put-in-fence-posts videos. Dig a hole, stick a post in then add concrete. Sounds simple enough. Except as everyone knows, it never is!
Son has found a piece of prime real estate in his front garden on which to site the village’s new lending library. The book box is being bolted on to a couple of sturdy fence posts so that it just hovers above this brick wall.
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| Can we put it there? |
Once you’ve worked out exactly where along the wall the library is to be positioned then dig a very large hole about a foot deep as close to the wall as you can get. Measure the distance between the bottom of your hole and the top of the wall to determine the height of the fence posts.
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| Dig some deep holes |
Cut fence posts. We used 1 x 2.4 metre post that was 10 cms square cut in half. Nice and chunky. Even a big bad wolf is going to struggle to blow those buggers down.
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| Look no hands to hold posts |
Stick post in the hole. To save having to hold the posts in situ whilst the concrete dries, the other half has used some gash bits of timber and long clamps to chock the two posts evenly away from the wall.
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| Quick drying concrete for posts |
Pour powdered postcrete into the holes around each fence post making sure it’s nice and compact then just add water. Always follow the recipe instructions on the packet for the best chance of getting a good bake.
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| Add powdered postfix |
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| Then pour on the water |
Pub lunch anyone? Well, there’s no point spending hours watching the bloody things dry, is there?
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