Installing Vinyl Fencing On Concrete

Stretch a string line tightly along the proposed fence run locate the corner posts and dig 3 ft deep postholes.

Installing vinyl fencing on concrete.

Specify above ground installation when ordering. Using a rented core drill you can drill a hole through your concrete slab for each fence post. Although few do it yourselfers relish the prospect of a weekend spent mixing hundreds of pounds of concrete and digging numerous post holes most can handle a vinyl fence installation. We have shorter posts for our fences for this purpose.

Vinyl is a good choice for an attractive easily maintained fence system. Installing a vinyl fence. Get the bottom 6 inches of your hole filled with gravel and put in rebar posts. If attaching your vinyl fence posts to concrete footing then begin by digging a post hole.

When installing a fence on an existing concrete pad some fence installers prefer to core drill through the concrete and set posts the traditional way embedded in concrete underground. This is one method among many to set a hollow vinyl post on a concrete pad or sidewalk. Vinyl fencing isn t subject to rot fading or other effects of weather and time as wood fencing can be. Below grade and pack in soil on top of the wet concrete.

Vinyl fencing is a relatively new maintenance free type of fencing. Below we will discuss a few ways to install a fence on a concrete slab. It could be used for fence posts hand rail or porch columns. I install the surface mounts that i fabricated in the previous video.

Concrete will then need to be poured into this hole. We carry a variety of fence brackets that can be used successfully to mount a wood vinyl ornamental metal or chain link fence posts to a concrete surface however caution should be taken with thin concrete pads and privacy fences. Plumb the posts and. Whether a vinyl pool fence viny.

Make sure that the holes are 10 inches in diameter and deep enough to hold the length of your post plus 6 inches for a layer of gravel. To install a vinyl fence start by using a power auger or a post hole digger to dig the holes for your fence posts. Lay out the fence. It s available in forms similar to both wood panel and rail fencing.

Otherwise stop filling the holes with concrete about 4 in.