well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews we've got some tools ready to go here I got some aluminum
flashing I got my sander got my favorite cut off edge ruler where you can make a cup of taking your
fingers off the tape measure and exacto knife and that's all I need for this project here
I've got a couple more tools down here in front of the 4x4 post I'm going to show you this 4x4
post that I'm going to stick in the ground and I'm gonna concrete it in and as I mentioned in
the last video about preventing a 4x4 post from deteriorating I showed you in the last video if
you haven't seen it I'll put a link down below in the description about how posts always yeah
they always rot off right at the ground level and this is what I've been doing for a long time to
prevent it and it's using the aluminum flashing so let's get to it and I'll show you this post
and why I got a sander here there she is the 4x4 post showed you how to select one of these
now this is only for a post by itself you don't do this if you're making a fence right this is
only for a post that's gonna go in the ground too for a gate okay so as you can see at this
end here this is the part that's going to be all underneath the ground this part here yeah
I do take the sander and I just sand it down I mean now is a perfect opportunity to smooth
this over and there is quite a bit of I guess milling marks and that kind of stuff so let's
good just takes five minutes to sand her down now I'm more likely gonna have to chop it off
somewhere around here but this whole idea is using the aluminum flashing here to wrap around where
this is going to be the ground level here so I've made a nice mark here with my straight edge this
is going to go go on like this and I'll put you on the tripod and I'll show you how I do this
okay so as you can see here I just put in two galvanized nails don't use regular nails
because they'll rust and as you can see I got construction adhesive or you can use regular
caulking just about an inch from either end wrap it all the way around and this will prevent the
water intrusion going down to here and it also holds this on really really good over the years
so I'm gonna wrap this all the way around and as I go around each side I'll put more adhesive and
use guys let me know what you think when I'm finished cuz I'm gonna bring it all the way
around here I'll put my last piece of caulking around here nail it on and we'll done so I'll
bring you back when that's finished well this is the last step that I do and you can see how it's
all wrapped around here nice and neat and this is the last step that I do before I throw it in
the ground you could see that's where I ended right here and I have a nice seam of adhesive
caulking underneath here construction adhesive and all I've done here has just got some brown
caulking and I put some tape here first before I actually applied it this side here I just buttered
it up with a putty knife but yeah that's how I seal it off there and now we're gonna throw
it in the ground put the concrete end and I'll bring you back when that's done well she's all
concreted in and been sitting for about maybe 15-20 minutes and there's the tools I used I'm
gonna show you what I did with this thing and that's just a hunk of wood just to pack the
concrete in and it took about a bag and a half of concrete remember this post here is only going to
be to hang this fence off of on this end and just to latch the gate the gate is going to be held on
that wall over there and that's going to be part of the next project so of course you need a level
and a little bit of a trowel for the bottom of the concrete post and your shovel and of course
some the mixture concrete end so I'm gonna show you what this here is for and why I use this then
I'll show you how level this post is well let's take a look at this rig set up all this here is
is it drywall square just for cutting drywall and all I've done was just add a little bit of
an extension on so how do you know that this post here is perpendicular to your wall that's
all I do is go like this there it is right there I hope you guys can see that but yeah that's but
a square as you can get so let's take a look at the level and I'll show you how level this post is
okay so there we go there guys I think that's pretty level and that's what you're you're looking
for as you can see here there's that caller that's there so it's a couple inches above the ground
guys that's all you really have to do to prevent your post from rotting out because if not that's
what you're gonna have to deal with there and you could see where if that caller would have
been on there up to here you'd have no rotting well as you can see it's not a hard project to
do I like to take my time do it right and you know you don't need all kinds of tools or fancy tools
or anything like that just take your time and I really can't see how anybody with minimum amount
of skills could take on a project like this just putting a post hole into the ground and putting
in a post and putting that nice little collar in you know this stuff is fairly inexpensive you know
aluminum flashing yeah I think it's a great thing to do so on the next video coming up I'm going to
be putting a support on my gradual there to attach the gate to and I'll be building the liftoff fence
and hopefully it's going to be as easy as this here so thanks for joining me here today never
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