Love this. We attach multiple video of yours in EVERY single estimate (including our own) to educate customers on no-dig installation etc. Keep em coming!
Fantastic video, Mark & SWI crew! It's great that these tips can be applied to materials beyond vinyl. Thanks to SWI for consistently delivering top-notch content. Looking forward to the next!
Thanks for the videos. I have been using some of your videos to demonstrate to customers the how’s and why’s of using the no dig system and it has been super helpful. Love the cornerstone hardware we bought through you also.
My personal advice for any homeowner emboldened to install their own 6'x8' Despot fence, is to BEFORE digging/setting posts, to actually OPEN THE FENCE PANELS BOX and measure the width of ALL the pickets as they're slid into each other. This will prove to you the MAXIMUM width you can have between each post (less 5", of course). Because you cannot stretch the rails. I say this because the Orange Depot's site clearly stated 'Installed width' to be 96.0" for the panel box. Yeah, well, turns out it was adding 5" for the post. Not realizing this, I first set my posts 101" on center, only to realize the rails were too short. SURPRISE! So yeah, the pickets totaled 91", not 96" like I had 'assumed'... Grrrrr.... So, no matter what width the Box Store website claims, YOU need to measure the width before setting posts. Fortunately, I had used a secret (patented) no-dig method and was able to pull them up without too much trouble. I videoed that method, and if I ever get around to it, I'll post it for review by the experts of fence installation: none other than Mark, Dan & Alan.
There was a lot of intel in this video . Sadly a lot of people will buy the cheapest junk then want to complain about it when in a year are less it looks pure elephant dung . Even if it's top shelf material and installed wrong it isn't worth a flip. Thank you for schooling us!!! You all have a wonderful weekend .
Do you recommend 6” of gravel in the bottom of the hole for drainage? I don’t understand why some people are recommending this for vinyl fence post since it’s supposed to drain water and prevent rot from a wood post? Seems like it will raise the concrete to above the frost line and let water pool in the 6” of gravel below the concrete footing. I’m installing a 6ft tall vinyl privacy fence in the South Dakota. Wind gets pretty strong here occasionally. Holes are going to be 40” deep (same as the contractors in my area) in soil that is basically pure clay. I’m going to use the stab method. Should I do 40” holes with just concrete or should I put 6” of gravel in the bottom and have 34” of concrete on top? My posts allow for 33” to be below ground before the first rail.
My personal opinion is the gravel is pointless, even for wood posts. It just silts in over time anyway--and I don't know what we're trying to protect the vinyl from. I'd use concrete all the way down. You need to make dang good and sure you're getting it below frost line. 👍🏻
Different regions are going to have different availabilities. I'd skip the big-box store and talk to a fence company to buy supplies from. Keep these things in mind: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o72mFcwKIXY.html
perhaps produce a check sheet that can be printed off and filled in by the contractors to include in the contract between them and the client of what exactly they are going to do, it would show they couldnt BS the client and to what standard its to be done by?
@@SWiFence a sort of questionnaire with materials being used, style, post fixings etc if you put the form on your website with ads it might increase revenue?
I hired a Florida fence company with photos of beautiful work. The man assured me he owned the company and would be installing. He sent a subcontractor who had never installed a privacy fence before. The man was confident but made mistakes even i could see; someone had to come help him space the pickets.. I have one gate now that i have to fix because once opened, it will not close. I don't trust the company enough to call and ask for help. I'm sure they think they're awesome.
(nervously looks back at how I set the posts of my first vinyl fence installation...) Edit: To clarify, this was in Tampa Bay, a freebie for a relative, but I used 8" tubes, 36" deep, with 2 - 60# bags per post. It was only 4 posts within the back yard (not visible to the public), but now, I'd do the no-dig 2.375" posts 4' deep. I keep learning more and more with each video. Thank you, from a 60 year old who had only 12 months of carpentry experience 37 years ago!
Any videos on what to do when there is. 3-6” gap from a post and a house? My footings stick out a bit from the house, but is not thick enough to put in your posts with bolts
One trick I use is to take a 1" hole saw and punch a few holes in the underground section of the post. Cement oozes into those holes and locks slick vynil to cement.
