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Well that's why you need to put gravel in the bottom for drainage and use treated cedar. It's also pretty dry here so likely the posts will outlive me
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Don't know why, I've used treated posts and re-treated myself, but still had one rot recently at ground level. Below in the concreate fine... as for wet, its been very wet here recently but not as wet as some. Many houses flooded along the Severn and Wye.
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Drainage is essential...the wood can act like a wick and suck water up into the post
Ceder and cypress are naturally rot resistant but I'm suspecting that the UK has more strict ecological laws on what preservatives can be used on wood.
What kind of wood were you using?
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Maybe the post was defective? Anywho after this I will proceed to double up the back fence with taller pickets to obscure the view of the neighbors collection of tarps and dangling CDs functioning as scarecrows. They also have a motion activated floodlight that is pointed in our general direction that is annoying.
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Must have been, I dug the hole with the boring tool (pictured example) and hammered the post into soil before filling the hole with quick drying fence post concreate, takes about 10 minutes. When I dug it out the post was fine except at ground level. Replaced with a steel spike with post in that.
I hate CDs used like that. And motion floodlights... neighbours can be tricky. Ours here are OK. We have had some who were not. Here they are never in their gardens for some reason, we tend to live there in the summer. I actually like garden birds, i'm watching crows nest building. We have the normal grey squirrels, and frogs, UK wildlife is fairly harmless, unlike the States. We did try growing vegetables, but lacked the enthusiasm we once had, plus lost the slug war, mainly from guilt.NoiseWiki wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:38 am Anywho after this I will proceed to double up the back fence with taller pickets to obscure the view of the neighbors collection of tarps and dangling CDs functioning as scarecrows. They also have a motion activated floodlight that is pointed in our general direction that is annoying.
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The cds aren't as annoying to me as the floodlamp.. where they have placed it makes no sense .. I thought about just putting up taller pickets just where it would obscure my view of it.
I still have to finish our fountain as we do have a fair amount of birds that hang out in the bushes but we can't see them from the window.. do hopefully they'll come to the fountain
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That's the wicking I was talking about.Must have been, I dug the hole with the boring tool (pictured example) and hammered the post into soil before filling the hole with quick drying fence post concreate, takes about 10 minutes. When I dug it out the post was fine except at ground level. Replaced with a steel spike with post in that.
The post sucked up the water In the ground and then the water oozes out where it can...where it hits air...right where the concrete ends. So thats where it rots.
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Re: Manual labor
my father used to have a friend that regularly killed moles.
not sure how he did it.
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Treated fence posts, ? birch ? ecological laws - yes, but in that village I once lived, old sump oil!RUBBISH wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:34 am
Drainage is essential...the wood can act like a wick and suck water up into the post
Ceder and cypress are naturally rot resistant but I'm suspecting that the UK has more strict ecological laws on what preservatives can be used on wood.
What kind of wood were you using?

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