Concrete mix

[CountryFan]

Not sure if this is the correct forum. I want to strengthen some rotting fence posts, I have some tanalised timber but want to put some concrete down too.

The posts are in the garden - can I mix small pebbles/gravel with fast set cement, or would I be better using grit sand and ordinary cement with the small pebbles/gravel? Or just post mix?

 

[noseall]

Not sure if this is the correct forum. I want to strengthen some rotting fence posts, I have some tanalised timber but want to put some concrete down too.

The posts are in the garden - can I mix small pebbles/gravel with fast set cement, or would I be better using grit sand and ordinary cement with the small pebbles/gravel? Or just post mix?

Bolt a godfather post to the rotten posts and concrete them in.

 

[noseall]

can I mix small pebbles/gravel with fast set cement, or would I be better using grit sand and ordinary cement with the small pebbles/gravel? Or just post mix?

Postcrete is ok but sets quickly, we rarely use it. Buy bags of ballast (25kg) and mix with cement at 6:1

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Replace them. Anything else isn't going to last.

 

[CountryFan]

Replace them. Anything else isn't going to last.

Apologies, I forgot to say we’re moving house, so don’t want to fork out unnecessarily. Rest of the posts are ok.

 

[Deluks]

A simple fix. Or even cheaper, just hammer in a length of angle steel and bolt it on.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Repair-Stakes-Garden-Ground-Reinforcement/dp/B0D3LJ9MVK/ref=asc_df_B0D3LJ9MVK?mcid=7ee6b8277ccf38acb6d0adf821e6069e&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697301124433&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6625332743040181919&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9214131&hvtargid=pla-2325453297773&psc=1&gad_source=1

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Apologies, I forgot to say we’re moving house, so don’t want to fork out unnecessarily. Rest of the posts are ok.

Oh botch away then. I left my last house smothered in a few bucketfuls of crap trade emulsion paint!

Can't you just cut a sharp point onto a post and hammer it in? Hammering via a bit of scrap so it doesn't get splintered.