Wooden fence posts repair?

[Ramsey]

Hi,

I've a fence between the side of the house & the external garage (which is a wind tunnel!)

The posts have no concrete to support them (a hardcore base only) so you can imagine the give from the soil around the posts....a 'punner' was used to bed the soil around them in last year (I wish I'd heard of this site then!).

Question: Do I have to take this all down and start again or can I fill around posts with concrete in retrospect? I'm looking for the simplest way (although I appreciate that this is what got me into this mess in the first place).

Thanks.

 

[JohnD]

you really need to dig them out.

If you want a quick/poor job it is possible to excavate at right angles to the fence run (after propping it) and add concrete which will resist the wind... but it needs to go into firm soil. You have to do one post at a time or the fence may fall over. You can pack in big clean stones, broken brick and concrete embedded in your new pour.

If the posts are wooden they will rot away in a few years and the fence will fall down, so if you want to do it properly, dig out, and place new concrete posts. Removing old lumps of concrete from the ground after the wooden posts have rotted is an awful job (but Thermo is very strong and plucks them out with one hand )

 

[Thermo]

you can dig them out one by one providing you have acces all the way around. You will probably need to brace them as you go though.

By the way they wont rot in a few years. johns jut got shares in a pre cast concrete company!

 

[Ramsey]

Thanks for the help chaps,

I'll read up before lashing into jobs from now on.

Just need a good spell to get cracking!