Installing Vinyl Fencing On Concrete
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Installing vinyl fencing on concrete. Get the bottom 6 inches of your hole filled with gravel and put in rebar posts. Vinyl fencing isn t subject to rot fading or other effects of weather and time as wood fencing can be. Using a rented core drill you can drill a hole through your concrete slab for each fence post. When installing a fence on an existing concrete pad some fence installers prefer to core drill through the concrete and set posts the traditional way embedded in concrete underground.
Installing a vinyl fence. To install a vinyl fence start by using a power auger or a post hole digger to dig the holes for your fence posts. We carry a variety of fence brackets that can be used successfully to mount a wood vinyl ornamental metal or chain link fence posts to a concrete surface however caution should be taken with thin concrete pads and privacy fences. Make sure that the holes are 10 inches in diameter and deep enough to hold the length of your post plus 6 inches for a layer of gravel.
Installing your fence on a concrete surface such as a patio or driveway is easy with this innovative system by wambam fence. Vinyl fencing is a relatively new maintenance free type of fencing. Although few do it yourselfers relish the prospect of a weekend spent mixing hundreds of pounds of concrete and digging numerous post holes most can handle a vinyl fence installation. You will dig this hole to where it is about 1 3 of the length of your post and about 10 inches in diameter.
Lay out the fence. Below grade and pack in soil on top of the wet concrete. Otherwise stop filling the holes with concrete about 4 in. It s available in forms similar to both wood panel and rail fencing.
Whether a vinyl pool fence viny. Below we will discuss a few ways to install a fence on a concrete slab. If attaching your vinyl fence posts to concrete footing then begin by digging a post hole. This is one method among many to set a hollow vinyl post on a concrete pad or sidewalk.
Plumb the posts and. I install the surface mounts that i fabricated in the previous video. Stretch a string line tightly along the proposed fence run locate the corner posts and dig 3 ft deep postholes. We have shorter posts for our fences for this purpose.
Concrete will then need to be poured into this hole.