i need to put a 6 ft fence on a 9 inch brick wall ,the wall is 1 course of blocks high with a engineering brick on top whats the best way to fix the post ?
many thanks
many thanks
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fence posts
- Thread starter trowlerman
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Not a hope of fixing them to the wall without it all falling over, the posts need to be embedded 2ft under in their own concrete footings.
thing is though the wall is already up i need a solution somehow 
I agree with Freddy, you would have been best to plan this and posts will not be strong enough attached to the top of the wall. The only way I can think is to dig holes alongside the wall, it will mean cutting carefully through the foundation, concrete in posts hard against the wall and fit your fence to those posts once all the concrete is hard.thing is though the wall is already up i need a solution somehow
6 feet is optomostic but I've seen it done with smaller open fences. You can put a timber on top of the wall like a wall plate and fix it down with all thread resined into the brickwork at least 600mm . The posts are then tenoned into the wall plate.If it is possible to have pilliars or braces off the fence to another structure then you may stand a chance.
That said it's not the best option and I think a six footer is likely to suffer wind problems.
That said it's not the best option and I think a six footer is likely to suffer wind problems.
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