Before you start installing the fence posts, you need to prepare the appropriate building materials and tools: scrap,
garden drill, construction
level , water
level, twine, roofing material, cement, sand, water, gravel and a container for mixing the mortar.
Beginning of work
Concreting of fence posts begins with marking the place on the site for drilling holes in the ground using a garden drill (if you have a gas drill, this will greatly facilitate the task). To do this, determine the location of the first pillar. There you need to drive a wooden peg and stretch the twine to the place of the last pillar. So it turns out the layout of the entire fence. When drilling, you should adhere to the line so that the fence turns smooth. Next, you need to mark the place where the columns will be concreted for the fence. Between them you need to make a different distance, depending on the selected material. The posts for the netting netting are installed at a distance of 3 m, for a wooden fence or fence from corrugated board - 2.5 m. If you make a distance between them more than 3 m, this can lead to sagging lag.
Pit drilling and concreting fence posts
In order to know at what depth to drill, a marker is made on the auger of the drill with a marker so that the distance is 100-110 cm from the ground. You need to hold the drill vertically so that the pit is even and does not go to the side. Further, when drilled to the mark, to prevent contact of the solution with the ground, a piece of roofing material rolled into a roll is laid in the pit. We proceed to the installation. A distance of 150 cm is marked on the column from the top and lowered to this mark. If necessary, the pit must be deepened or sprinkled so that the distance is maintained. Then, beaten brick or gravel is poured there and rammed with a crowbar. The main thing is not to fill it completely and leave a distance of about 15-20 cm to the top for cement mortar. The initial stage of concreting of
fence posts is completed. The last pillar must be set to the first, for this they use the hydraulic level.
Concreting fence posts: pros and cons
It is believed that concrete columns "squeezes" out of the soil over time. This can only be if they were concreted to a depth of less than a meter. But if they are dug deeper, nothing will happen to them. One of the main advantages is that concrete columns do not rot in the ground, unlike those that are driven into the ground and are not protected by a layer of concrete. Even a well-primed and painted tree driven into the ground is not protected from decay. If the pillars are not concreted, but scored, the fence will turn out to be “walking,” since there is no way to set it up according to the level. If you align the clogged pillar, it only gets loose, and then you will need to think about the reliability of such a design. The mechanized method is better in terms of quality of execution, because such concrete casting of fence posts, the price of which will immediately increase, makes them stronger and more even. It is worth considering that it’s better to do everything right away and not to worry about it for several years. Also, from the aesthetic side, a concrete pillar is better, because a driven one will be deformed from above.