HOW TO FIX A FENCE POST IN UNDER TEN MINUTES *CHEAP & FAST* 

Hope you enjoy the video people!

Just a little tip .water at bottom of hole , half bag of post Crete , mix a bit , then add other half of post Crete add water to top and give a bit more of a mix to postcrete .it helps to ensure all of post Crete is dampened.

You have done a good job of that, I used to be a fencer and bricklayer, I used to use primed angle iron to concrete in the ground with holes in it to screw it to the post, found it less intrusive and you hardly notice it.

Thanks, very informative for someone who had no idea how to fix broken fence or items needed!! Great

Easy to watch and learn - nothing complicated. Feel after watching......even I could attempt a fence repair. 😅 Well edited and straight to the point. Really good and 👍 great advice.

Thank you this was a huge help! I've ordered the following so I can repair my fence: Concrete Repair Spurs, postcrete, Round Washers M10x50mm and Coach Screws - M10 x 150mm.

Thanks for sharing, I've been doing this to our fencing, falling posts, for a couple of years now! So much easier and, hopefully, permanent. I do just use my cordless drill/ driver for the coachbolts and finish by spanner.. The post supplier recommended M10 bolts but M12 fit and so I use those for a bit more strength. Just wish you were local to me to do the job for me! Local fencing companies/ gardeners aren't interested in this fix!

Great Video, the only thing I am unsure of is - How would you dig a hole through the existing post Crete that is already surrounding the broken post?

Nicely done. When the laurel hedge grows in you will not see the repair. Lovely.

Great video looking forward to seeing your other stuff, I’m sure it will come in handy this year!

Postcrete is absolute magic stuff!! Had to do a fair bit of fence replacement a little while back (panels and posts utterly beyond hope) and decided to try a cheap petrol powered auger. It was surprisingly not rubbish for the price.

I am useless....but watching just this video has given me the confidence to tackle this exact same job on my fence thanks for this!

Really helpful thank you - fixed our post yesterday afternoon!

Brilliant to watch and really well described process. Thanks

Hi Jack laid a lawn last year and followed your tips and took really well but gave its first cut of the year and wear turf was thick its left it yellow patch I have fed it and you can see green on bottom of yellow grass is there any advise pls mate

Excellent cheap fix….thank you !

Thanks Jack my mums fence is quite big and old and needs replacing but I like your technique so cheers

Thanks. Very straight forward and clear step by step guide.

Now I know your in MK I’d have got you to do my broken fence. Great vid cheers

As a landscape gardener of 22 years now,I like your enthusiasm.. Good video. Good content. 👍

You made it look so easy 👍

Awesome!… Thanks, from Ajax,Ontario, Canada!

Great stuff! 👍 I’ve got this to do on my fence soon and now I feel a lot more able to have a go myself. Thank you. I just subscribed. I bought one of those diy metal garden tool shed kits and it needs to sit on a level base. Could I put four short concrete posts into the ground at each shed corner and then put a timber frame on top to form my base? What would the right posts or spikes and brackets be called please. Any tips gratefully received! 😁

Well done Jack very informative have liked and subscribed.

Thanks for taking the time to make the video, some of us DIY people appreciate these videos that need a cheap fix and have a small budget, as I note the negative comment crew are not quick to post videos themselves. Thanks

Great video, very useful tips. Good luck with your business.

Glad you’re back... I’m planning on overseeing my lawn as it’s patchy from my son and dog running about on it last year leading up to christmas and then also playing on it when we had snow etc... I need tips

Very helpful. Thanks

Hey Jack Thanks for the informative video. You just saved me time and money so I appreciate The wind snaps at least one my post each season … any advice?

Hi how much would your fee ( labour + materials) be for repairing my fence at South Croydon in a similar manner?

Great help, thanks. Please keep up the guides. Hope you expand to cover my area!

Simple, thanks.

Well done. Job make it look easy thanks

Nice one mate 👍

Thanks great idea.

Good video, need to do this job myself and this has been a great help 👍

Hey, thanks for that. Good one.

This method works well for mending posts. However, from my experience, 1/3 of the entire length of the post will be buried in concrete underground. Mine was surrounded by about 180kg of concrete. Furthermore, the post will be leaning because it has snapped at ground level (due to various reasons.) This makes the bugger almost impossible to mend this close to the ground in this way. Or, maybe whoever did our fence row simply liked pouring concrete but didn't add rainwater or runoff into consideration.

I don't know about being under 10 minutes, but I like the content.

would love to see a video on fixing a sunken garden paving slab

Those spurs are too cool, never seen them here in the states. I wonder if they even sell them 🤔Great job 👍

Better to replace the post. Unfortunately there is little or no postcrete behind the concrete support

Was wondering what your thoughts are on electric scarifiers as my front lawn is 80% moss what’s your tips to turn this around?

Thanks Jack

Well if you can fix that in ten minutes, you can do my posts! I found it takes about 2 hours total of fix a post, I dig down 2 and a half feet minimum breaking up the old concrete as I go, secure the concrete spur to the post, square up and concrete in the spur. That tool you had for making the hole is ok if you can get access to turn it perhaps by leaning the old post over. I have a 6 foot 6 inch high close boarded fence and so far have repaired about ten of the posts by installing concrete spurs. Some of these were adjacent to a concrete path and the only way to do those is to use a long chisel on a hammer drill. I'm not as young as you are but this example if fine if your faced with a shallow depth, short fence post and soft concrete. Corner posts are a different story where access is restricted and also old concrete with lumps of flint and other rubbish is not so easy.

Hi pal do i need to pre drill the post to use these coach screws or are they self drilling? Thankyou

Nice informative video. If you come across a job to do a fence on top of a brick wall or attaching fence posts to brick wall that would be lovely. Best wishes!

Was the original wooden fence post not concreted into the ground then, because I cant see how youd make a hole with that auger thing that close to the wooden post if it was concreted in. Surely the original concrete would be at least 150mm plus around the post?

Great job well done Personally I pretty much fill the hole with water once the post is level then pour the postcrete in. Usually it still needs a top up after as water drains away a bit Oh and washers ..I've seen hex heads pulled through the holes so always use a stainless washer. That's not knocking you fella...more an observation and what I've picked up over thirty yrs of doing this.

Question: is it ok to lay grass seeds now? and would you recommend a certain brand or do they all do the job🤷

Good job

Brilliant

Great video fella! Spent a lot of my younger years around Northamptonshire! Great channel! I’d like to see an arris rail fence install as I need to do mine. The posts are rotten and need to learn how to do the feather edge. Cheers

The best way of putting a concrete spur onto a wooden post is to dig down 1.5 ft and place the concrete spur into the hole then bolt it onto the wooden post by using 6" bolts and washers. Then pour water into the hole and add in the post crete mixing as you add. Then using a spirit level, level the spur, add more water if needed mixing well until the post is firmly in place.

I've just watched a similar repair on YT , where long steel flat rods were buried in concrete and screwed, on front and side of post, same effect, a bit quicker, and less visible.

Jack what attachment to I need for my driver to put the bolts in ?

"That's nicely mixed now, getting there". What a bodge.

Is your fence bar concrete?

Everyone has their own opinion on how to do things, and no one is perfect! Done many of these over many years, and never had a complaint, must be doing it right then i guess!

Just another little tip mate, a post is plumb not level, keep up the good work

Top tip

Good stuff. Less preamble at the start of videos and sharper editing will help your channel immensely. Keep up the good work and the very best for the future.

How did you get the concrete base out? The auger is good for digging the earth but can't cut the concrete. That is always the hard - removing the concrete base.

Thank you. Just suggestion if you could reduce the music volume in background that would be helpful

and on to the next one

Certainly wouldn’t be happy with the length of those coach screws, at 100mm you would have less than an inch into the timber that could easily pull out. I would use M12 150mm with a decent pilot hole then especially with that impact you would get an excellent fixing. As you say it’s a cheap quick fix and the original concrete was certainly spared but I wouldn’t be too concerned as the new postmix should adhere to it and make a larger mass as a whole. I assume the disconnected aris rail at the other end of that fence section was fixed too. Good little video for the DIYer

Very useful. My personal preference is not to have background music - it gets in the way of the message.

I see you used an auger to dig hole. However, if the old concrete is jutting out from the edge of the old post hasn't it to be broken out to enable a flush fit for the spur up against the post and to true it? I see you did not show that. An auger won't dig through the old post crete will it? For some diy types that would be the real ball ache in this repair.

Good of you to sort it out especially as it is not your fence AND they still chose to show their neighbour the worst side!

Am I the only person to have noticed that the fence was still falling away at the next post?

What an eyesore!

I have done that I usually takes me half an afternoon to dig the hole for the concrete post. Not 10 minutes.

Nice guy, but the post seems at an alarming angle?

You missed the bit where you start digging, then have to go hire or buy a breaker because of the mahoosive block of concrete someone poured in the mine-shaft they dug for the original post...

Do you need a bag of postcrete per post?

Oh shit he's back

Them coach bolts are "Coach Screws" the length of 100 mm is way to short should be more like 150mm(6") in old money and the spur should go down 600mm (2'-0). As the post is broken(rotted off) below ground it's better to remove it and the concrete around it( hard work) then the concrete (postcrete) will get fully around the spur. Apart from that a great job.

I was attracted by the under 10 minutes then found out it would easily take me 10 plus hours 😸

“Cheap & Fast” let’s see if it will last till winter ❄️ 💯

If you don’t hit concrete I’d be worried especially the way new builds are done these days.

What if its on concrete mate

What do you do if the post is concreted 3ft in the ground and sourranded by concrete. The fact theres no concrete around the post may be the reason it broke!!

It would take a lot longer than 10 mins as you need to remove old concrete and as for cheap those posts are not cheap

300mm 😳

The correct description is, coach SCREWS not coach bolts.

Should have removed the bottom of the broken post ..... as it rots it leaves a void ..... then the spur post moves

Ditch the arbour for post hole diggers

Great video on how NOT to fix a fence probably.

Use fence fix metal fkat bars you drive between the post and concrete about 500 to 600mm down and screw it about 600mm above, they require some bashing in!?!

I may be naive, but I’ve never had this issue. A storm cracked off a corner fence post I have. I’m depressed because I had taken down a privacy fence around a hot tub and wanted the posts for backyard lights, a shade sail or pergola top next year. It would have to be the corner post! It has left about 1 - 2’ left on the bottom, but splintered to a point. I claimed it on insurance because there is tree damage, but I suppose it’s a useless idea to be able to fix it. How the heck do you get that cement out? I’m a 4’ 9”, 99 lb single woman. Aahh!

I wish it’d watched your video a week ago

The slop on the spur is facing the wrong way😮😮😮

Lucky the concrete from the original post wasn't over used...that would have caused a bit of work...other than that very informative 👍

You don't need to put water into the concrete. Pour it in dry and make sure there is plenty of it on all 4 sides of the post spur. Shake it until it won't wiggle any more. You don't have to wait to connect it to the old post at that point. What you have shown is going to fail soon, because the amount of concrete on the side of the new post spur isn't enough to hold the spur up. It will crack off and the post will fall over the same way it did. Don't add water, as the concrete will absorb moisture over time from its surroundings and set up.

Maybe a description of all the tools and parts used in your summary would be great rather than having to go through the video to see what you used.

put some brown paint on that fence spur

Easier to put a repair stake in damaged post and cheaper u know meta post spike

Ponds.

The hardest part I found was breaking the old concrete which you do not show!

eerrmmm looks like you could do with a new bubble in your spirit level thanks anyway