The Forever Fence Post Fix
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How To Fix A Leaning fence. Broken Fence Post / The Last Fix Ever. How to repair a broken fence post for good. fence post is broken, how to fix. How to replace a broken fence post. Last fence repair ever. Fence post forever repair.
For this project you will want to get these Items:
#1: Post Hole Digger: amzn.to/356H1uM
#2: Post to fence brackets: amzn.to/2VE0OyM
#3: Galvanized metal fence posts - 2 3/8" : www.homedepot.com/p/YARDGARD-...
#4: Post Pile Driver : amzn.to/2W1urJ1
#5: Concrete : amzn.to/3eRyPDf
#6: Screws: amzn.to/3eRz1Ct
For this project you will want to get these Items: #1: Post Hole Digger: amzn.to/356H1uM #2: Post to fence brackets: amzn.to/2VE0OyM #3: Galvanized metal fence posts - 2 3/8" : www.homedepot.com/p/YARDGARD-2-3-8-in-x-2-3-8-in-x-8-ft-16-Gauge-Galvanized-Metal-Fence-Corner-Post-328944DPTS/307594483 #4: Post Pile Driver : amzn.to/2W1urJ1 #5: Concrete : amzn.to/3eRyPDf #6: Screws: amzn.to/3eRz1Ct
How do you fix it when the metal poles break, becuase, my fence was installed with the galvanized metal posts but they are broken and the fence is falling over anyway.
@@theresamorrison2831 How long ago were the posts installed? They should not break unless they were installed incorrectly You can Install more posts
@@handymanjourney I bought the house 2009 and they were already there. They were put into concrete and they broke where exposed part of the poles meat the concrete. I'm told it would be $30,000 for a new fence and the yard isn't even that big because they'd have to dig up all this chunks of cement with pole inside to put in new posts. It's very, very windy where I'm from, we're talking bits of your roof, rain gutters, and sometimes windows blowing away so I'm sure they were trying to keep the fence intaked, it's just really annoying. I don't even live in the same state as the house but have to fix it because the house is on the market. I don't have $30,000 though.
@@theresamorrison2831 if it was my place,not wanting to invest that much on a fence, I would just shore it up for now with 4x4 posts and be honest with any potential buyers, let them worry about it. Also 30k seem awfully high but I would pass on to the new owners to install new posts a couple feet closer together, it needs to be stronger then the wind its exposed to
I'm confused, did you dig a hole before driving the post?
I've watched every fence-straightening video on youtube and I'm going with this.
So how did it go?
@@fkaiba94 i went with something else lol. That E-Z Mender post brace thing which worked great.
@@honkymonkey9568 hmmmm
You saved my life. I bought five of these galvanized posts, 10 strong-ties, seven bags of quikcrete (messed up the position of the first post twice and had to redo), screws, post-hole diggers, and a pile-driver for a little under 200 bucks and fixed half of my blown-over fence. The original wooden posts were completely rotten and heavy winds blew five panels down onto my neighbor's yard and I didn't have the money to have the entire fence replaced. The panels were still in good condition so the fence looks as good as ever and so much anxiety lifted off my shoulders.
So awesome this helped! Keep up the great work!
I'm currently going through this. This information is very helpful
Think it's more economical than the 4" wide metal 'spikes' that's hammered-in abutting along posts. Definitely long lasting.
Pl Looks good, and I believe in the power of prayer
Hello This message is 2yrs coming! I passed your video on to my husband and his assistant in 2021. They were successfully able to straighten our extremely leaning fence following your instructions in this video! What's important is our fence was straightened in 2021 this is 2023 & it has remained straight 2yrs later. Also we that we live in Manitoba Canada🇨🇦🤗 So we've had 2 springs, falls 🤗& winters of constant heavy freeze-thaws & our fence hasn't moved! Still tall and straight! We'd like to thank you so much for your time and advise when you recorded and shared this video on KZhead! That's how I found you by searching on KZhead! It was relatively easy they just followed your instructions completely & were very successful. It took a total of approximately 2weeks total, working every other evening and working the 2 Saturdays & it was done! Had to allow time for the concrete to set around the metal posts. Concrete was chosen due to our extreme weather. They held the fence straight with our riding mower till concrete & metal posts were set. Our yard is 100ft by 120ft. So I'd say 2 men working part-time over a 2 week span did really good! Oh did I mention that both men were amateurs! 1st time straightening a fence & they had an easy time following your video! Thank you🤗🫂💞Thank👍you👋Thank you 🤗💞🫂👍🇨🇦👋
Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to follow up on this! I am so glad I could be helpful!😀
@@handymanjourney Hello🤗🇨🇦You're most welcome! I am so sorry it took so long to message you, but I wanted to be sure of what I was reporting to you & the public was fact! And WOW, did your video instructions ever surpass our expectations! Thank you again from your true fans (amateurs) in Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦🤗👋👍👏🤗👍
This is a very sensible solution for a fence specially if the neighbour do not like to share the cost of replacing the fence and don’t like to share maintaining the fence.
You included the most important part of any project: Hearing Protection ! You will thank yourself once you hit 60+ !
What?
Thank you for this! Mine is leaning really bad into the neighbors parking lot and if it falls not only will my dog get out but their car will be hit. My landlord is “fixing it” which means they came to look at it once and never came back, so I’m going to have to do it on my own. You have no idea how wonderful videos like these are me being a woman alone no one taught me these and I don’t have a lot of ppl to ask.
So glad this was helpful! Go get em!
Hello Mr Lee. My name is Alex and I am 19 years old i have just started my own handyman business and I have been doing much better using the steps and advice You have given in your videos. You have helped me more than I could have ever imagined. Thank you for all your honest help.
Hey Alex, Thank you for your awesome comment! I really appreciate your kind words!
Instead mixing concrete, put the dry mix in the hole and add water. It won't be high strength concrete but it will be more than strong enough for this purpose.
I like the idea instead of a large concrete hole dig a smaller one and drive the post down into it. I can only suggest, that if the soil permits you to drive the post further to take advantage of the extra strength you would get. I would drive it down until just above the upper 2 x 4 leaving room for your reinforcement above it. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you so much for this video @Handyman Journey. I too fixed my fence today myself with the assistance of your awesome video. I am a female (this is my husbands KZhead acct I use) and I am so so so proud of myself. All with your knowledge and willingness to share with us.
That is so awesome! You should be proud of yourself! Glad this video was helpful!
Now if my neighbor will just let me over into his yard.... lol. Great video!!!
Thanks 👍
In Ohio the law allows you access in there yard to maintain your fence. Pretty sure that have to let you check the law in your state.
How did it all end ?
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar… Thanks for the idea!
Your so welcome! Best of luck!
Just found out I have to replace fence post and I wanted to thank you for this video. I had no idea what I was going to do to fix it.
Great video. You saved my wife and I a great deal of work and frustration. Much thanks!
love this idea, more expensive than wooden posts for my poor pocketbook but easier and less intrusive
Ya definitely
Over here. We dig down about 2 ft. Pour gravel. Place fence post on. Pour concrete. Once set (10 mins) we get concrete and create an oval so water runs off. 20+ years with 100mph winds 😊
How large oval?how thick-? My new wood Fence just tilted in high winds in FL because not enough 'surface 'area' #$@$$%&##!!!!!!!
I think that by "oval", you mean a sloping cone around the base of the fence post.
Great Job Mr 💪 Lee. That's adding huge value into customers eyes. Shooting for that longevity shows you care for the customer only adds up to repeat 😉 clients!!!
Hey thanks for the comment! I appreciate it!
@@handymanjourney what size fence post did you use ...
I am about to tackle this for (2) 32' fence sections that got blown over due to rotten non treated 4X4's placed in shallow depth in clay. But I have to do a full rebuild as the rails are way rotten as well. I bought 16' long ground contact "wet: 2x4's at the big orange store a few weeks ago and am drying them now prior to use. The local metal salvage yard sells sch 40 2 3/8's drilling pipe for $1.50/ft and will cut to 8ft lengths for free. I have hard clay and need to go close to frost line for frost heave, ugh! I am using a Ryobi 18V 4" auger that does work slowly if I add hot water/dawn soap and go slowly. The original fence pickets are full rough cut 1X8 from local timber mill. I am planning to remove them recut the rough rotten enges off and apply stain on ends and then roll stain after everything is back place. The whole idea of using wooden 4X4 fence posts is doomed for failure, using metal for fences is the only way to go if you are wanting a fence that will last without constant problems from wind and rot.
Thanks. I'm glad your video stayed around for the 3 years.
Your welcome! I am glad this video was helpful for you!
Man what a great idea. I had a part of my fence blow down last year and had a hell of a time replacing the post, just had more of the fence break from some wind over the weekend and I'm definitely going with your method to get it back up.
Awesome!!
Great job repairing the fence! Well done!
Great solution. We use concrete repair posts here in the UK, but I would consider this method as it braces right to the top of the fence. Also the mixing tray and hoe looks a hell of a lot easier than a shovel and Barrow!
Haha thanks for your comment luke! Yeah, a mixing pan and hoe work great for mixing concrete!
Excellent content. I love that 2x4x12 bridging the posts.
Hey thanks Aaron! I am glad this video was helpful for you!
Very smart. My friend made a gate with tall metal posts and tied them together at the top. Made for a life long square fit and function.
I agree fully that that is a great way to make that fence solid again, the only problem I see is the owners may not be too happy with the appearance of all of the steel posts, especially if it is a cedar fence. IMO
That is true. It's important to discuss all the options with the homeowner and then let them decide what they would like
Just paint the posts brown and they become invisible
@@stevenbrown5210 I have had some clients do just that!
Thank you sir. For giving me an idea on repairing my fence
Definitely DON'T want to breathe in any of that cement/concrete dust. Good idea for landlords. Covering them in matching lumber or painting the posts would be a great improvement. Sounds like that existing fence's days are numbered, though, and the posts will still be around to support its replacement.
I wrap flashing around the fence post where it meets the ground. This keeps the microbes away from the wood which is what causes the rapid rot. If you look at wood utility poles you will see that a lot of them are wrapped with metal where it goes into the ground for the same reason.
I started doing this a couple of years ago. I was tired of trying to repair with more wooden post just to rot in a few years. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome! Your welcome! I am glad this video was helpful!
Very good video!. I do my concrete a bit different. I set all the posts in the holes. pour in half the concrete dry. align the posts, finish fill the concrete dry again, attach the posts to the fence. Once everything is where I want it, I add the water. Then allows the concrete to cure undisturbed over night
Nice work Lee
Fantastic! Don’t know why I didn’t think of that…BUT I AM VERY GLAD THAT YOU DID. Thank you!
You are so welcome! I am glad this video is helpful for you!
Great video and advice. Thank you
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Gonna do this to my saggy wooden privacy fence tomorrow!
Awesome!! Best of luck!!
I have a wooden fence and for years have been replacing the rotten post, maybe next time I will try this, looks a lot easier .
I like, I subscribed, and I am ready to fix my sagging fence. I don't have a lot of land on the other side so I'm glad the fence posts are so narrow and Metal. I think two of us can do that. Thank you great video
That's awesome! Thank for following along! Best of luck!
Thanks for this information and much appreciated
Personally, I'd paint the posts so they blend in. Also, It would be a good idea to put caps on the galvanized pipe so it doesn't accumulate water inside and expedite rusting, and will also prevent water from freezing and splitting the side of the pipe (which will substantially weaken it).
Painting them does sound like a good idea. I bet they eventually rust so I think treating them with paint is a great idea.
Great video, i was thinking of doing something like that, but have a wooden deck and no ground to dig like you did, is there a way to secure the base of one of those post with some type of bolts anchored to the deck? Thnx
Thank you so much for such a valuable idea. It is really great DIY way of doing. The links provided are also very useful and helpful. A BIG THANK YOU 🙏
Your so welcome! I am glad this video was helpful for you
We just went thru a hurricane in Houston last night and one section of my fence leaned over to the neighbors yard, I searched and searched and you popped up, easiest way, only about $10 more from doing it the old fashion way, will be doing this from now on, after so many years of hurricanes and fence falling we were running out of ground space to dig and post, I never dig out the old concrete but do it right next to the old one, this is perfect solution, I probably won't use the concrete and just drive right thru, or if I'm feeling cute just dig about a foot and fill in also since I'm doing it with the fence face facing me and don't want to deal with the ghetto crazy old hag next door, I will be drilling brackets on fence pickets. THANK YOU‼️
How it escapes me that I never thought of this before I will never know!, but happy I came across this video. Great job not only in fixing the fence solid but explaining it down to the T also. Liked and Subbed my man.
Thanks! I appreciate it and I am so glad this was helpful!
Dude you earned a subscriber and you just gave me rhe confidence to do this myself
Glad I could help! You got this!!💪
Excellent informative video!
Great video..well done..so easy..thanks
The most difficult part, the digging of the ground hole to pour in the cement was never mentioned. If these metal poles really last without rusting away then they are actually the best.
He mentioned the holes at around 35 seconds. The posts are galvanized fence posts that are used with chainlink fence.
FYI, the screws used in your video are a different length then the screws you linked to in the description. I bought 1-1/4" screws based on your description. I hope they'll be okay. I'm starting with 5 poles today after some storm damage.
This is a great video about how to fix a fence that has rotten posts. Great idea. But I have never understood why ANYONE would put wood in the ground. It just doesn't work. Use CONCRETE from the start. And if you really like the look of wood then just clad the concrete posts afterwards. Or use galvanised metal and clad that. Don't use wood. Use concrete. Almost every fence is see fallen I've is because of wooden posts.
Clean job, 👍🏼👌🏽
This helped a ton! I appreciate you taking the time to make this video
You are so welcome, I am so grateful it was helpful for you!
I like the post Thank you
Thanks
You saved me so much headache! Thanks for posting this video. :)
Your so welcome! I am glad this was helpful!!
thanks for this video!! excellent. Off to fix my sagging fence today!
Awesome!
Great video and help.
Very cool. Thanks.
I just bought several posts and a bunch of pickets to fix my fence.. i think im just gonna save the pickets for another day and reuse the posts for another project and do this method instead. this looks easier and better long term
Yes totally!
Interesting approach!
I agree i think the poles will rust over time so i think it would be a good idea to put something on them to keep them from rusting
Galvanized resists rust so these will last a really long time
Fantastic thank you
Great.. all you need is the chain link fence to add to the poles..
Best video on this topic that I’ve seen!
Fantastic! I am glad this video was helpful for you!
This is great ! Thank you.
Beautiful, thanks
This was awesome thanks Honest Lee
Your welcome! I am glad this was helpful!
Good job. I like it a lot. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Larry!
Used your method. Perfect!!! Thanks.
So glad this helped! Thanks for the comment!
Thanks bro! Awesome!
Great video! Thanks!
thx men
I want to do this to my year old fence.great idea and not too difficult for a newer fence.just for making that investment last.
Yes!!💯
Thank You!
You are so welcome!
Run the fence rails on their sides and overlap at posts by a t least a foot then pocket screw them together, you will use twice the post/fence rail brackets but it gives you stronger rails and post. Also, have you considered foam instead of concrete for fence posts? Oh, cap the posts.
I like this idea. Do you think it will hold up with 3 dogs (one is a St. BERNARD) jumping on the fence? One more question what can I do to avoid the dogs ( neighbors dogs ) digging under the fence.
great job! this will work!
Awesome! Question please. Looks like you dug a larger hole for the concrete after pounding the posts in. How wide and deep are these please?
Looks like a good idea but if you have rocky soil you won’t be able to Drive those posts in the Ground. I’ve did it the hard way digging out the old concrete posts and replacing them with pressure treated posts and a ton more cement.
This is a great idea, thank you. But Pedro the day labor worker at the Home Depot parking lot hates you for this.
Hahaha!!
Thanks for posting this video - enjoyed watching - and I used this to help me repair my own fence - thanks Tom f4collector
Hey so glad this helped! Thanks for the comment!
Laughing reading the comments. In Dallas all you have is metal posts holding up fences. Much different than Northern California where I grew up and everyone was so picky about how everything looked. I guess when you have the crazy Texas weather, you are just happy your fence is standing upright.
Hey thanks for the comment!
nice job
Absolutely brilliant!! Just did it to the first three of seven sections. Running into serious "root issues" on the last four, but the idea/concept is, again, brilliant! Thanks.
Good stuff.
Thank You so much, I needed to straighten my fence in one place and I didn’t know exactly how to do it.
So glad this helped!
Simple Fix, thanks.
Your so welcome! I am glad this video was helpful for you
Great video…thank you! I want to get this right…dig a pole hole first (thoughts on depth/diameter?)…drive in the post…level up…pour in concrete and allow setting…attach post to fence? Thank you!!!
That is correct, I recommend going about 16 to 24 in on the post hole but depending on what part of the country you're in you might need to go deeper call me need to go below the frost line and then you want it to be about 8 to 10 in wide and diameter
Hi, can I ask if I am living in a area with lots of snow, will this work? As people is telling me if the hole is not deep enough, and in winter, the concrete will floating up
Great video , very informative, you explain all the steps for a sagging fence and you add you can use these metal post in the future if you want to tear down the fence. I do have one question, I live in a cold climate and have a frost line. When I put my original fence in I dug 4 ft down and used 2 bags of cement per hole. If I use your method with the metal post shown here, will the cement heave during the cold months ? Thanks again for a great video.
Yes, you will want to make sure you dig below the frost line or it will push up
@@handymanjourney Thank you for the reply.
Was good but I assume you dug out around the metal post to put concrete in? Also did you put an entire bag of concrete in per post?? And just one other thing- video was in the shadow and was very hard to see needing more lights--. But these things said ,thank you for the video, very good---
Good stuff
Thanks so much ! My fence is leaning in the neighbor's yard about a foot. Question is so I put the pole straight where the fence should be and then I have to pull the fence to the brackets and screw in after curing correct ? Some of the bottom panels are rotting and possibly the cross beam , would this even work in my case or does this sound more like a full replacement project ?
Sounds like it needs to be replaced!
It would be nice if you mentioned what part of the country you are in. The freeze line is different and someone may my need to drive their posts deeper.
You Rock Sir! Thank you so much!
So glad this was helpful!
@@handymanjourney I just purchased 15x 8 foot pipes, all the other stuff. The pressure treated lumber isn't even available out here (California)! Thanks again! Cheers!
Do you know what sized tub you used? That seems to be the perfect size and I want to get the same size.
Question! I’m interested in started a Handyman Business KZhead channel! I own and operate a handyman company and was wondering if I should link the business with my channel or just keep them separate? I can see how you would open yourself and your company to scrutiny so I was wondering if it would be better off to just make KZhead videos but leave the company out of it. Love your videos! Thanks!
Nice job bro!
Hey thanks! Hey are you the guy that talked to Frank the other day?
@@handymanjourney nope, I'll called you about a month ago and you texted me back.
What do you do if your neighbors just built a brand new fence right up against your failing fence? I am thinking, I have to cut down my fence, sink posts, and then push the fence back up against the new posts and drive nails. Such a pain. Thinking about dropping down to a 3 foot high picket style fence, easier to work around and repair if something happens.
I do lots of fence repairs and trust me i lived by the galvy post fix but ive had to repair my 5 year old fixes cause they rusted away. I just use treated 4x4 with a protective coating and concrete now. I know that will last at least 20 years.
Not saying this will happen everywhere, but out here we have hard minerals.
Those steel posts will rust thru at the concrete over time. I cover any metal with another material to keep the concrete from touching, you could use rubber paint or bedliner. Thanx for the videos.
galvanized too?
i've have my steel post in concrete for over 40 years... and your are right.. but it took roughly 35 years for that to happen. But they are still strong.. It has bairly started...
Did you screw in the last piece of lumber that you put in on top?