Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time and money
and today how to fit fence panels to concrete slotted posts, and I'll tell you what I'm not
going to sit on the fence about this issue, I'm definitely gonna have a cup of tea before I start!
Oh. Right let's get cracking, and these are the fence panels that I've got to install these are
six foot by six foot fence panels and before you fit those it is definitely worth strengthening
them, and there's a link above now about how to do that, makes them last years longer,
now there's lots of videos out there about how to install a fence panel by yourself or there's
gadgets about how to lift them but don't even bother, make sure you just get someone to help
you it's so much easier, if there's two of you it's pretty easy if there's three of you it's
really easy, and today I've got my two glamorous assistants helping me,
this is one of the concrete posts here with the slotted groove in it and this is just one of the
fence panels which is completely warped and rotten and definitely needs replacing, I'm just going to
remove all these fence panels so we're ready to get started. Okay all the old fence panels have
been removed and I've had my hedge cutter out and just given the hedge a really good trim just so
it doesn't lean up against the new fence panels, some of these concrete fence posts have really
started crumbling but they're absolutely solid in the ground so there's no need to replace these,
later on I'll show you how to secure the fence panels to this crumbling bit of concrete post,
and here's a top tip to make the fence panels go in nice and smooth just take an old candle,
incredibly I found this on the beach, I mean where do they come from they just get washed up on the
beach? Just rub this into the groove all at the back and on the sides now what this will do is
when you're lowering the fence panel into position it just makes it slide down really easy and it
won't get caught up on any of the divots, just makes it nice and smooth when the fence panel is
lowered into this groove, so just make sure that you do that on every single concrete post in the
grooves.
And here we are my glamorous assistants are lifting the first fence panel into position
whilst they are doing that there's a link above
now about how to clean your uPVC window frames so they stay clean.
Now the easiest way to do this is have someone at each end on a ladder and then someone in the
middle underneath just offering the fence panel down so it goes in the grooves nice and straight.
Now these fence panels aren't that heavy they're just a little bit awkward and you definitely
don't want to be doing this on a windy day make sure there's not a breath of wind,
so just lift it up as high as it'll go
just feed it into those grooves,
and then gently lower it down now with three of you this is a really easy job,
you probably noticed hang on you've got this fence panel the wrong way around but actually
this is on my neighbour's side so I've got the good side p.s don't tell my neighbour!
Fabulous, and you just need to do that same procedure on all the rest of the fence panels
and this is what it looks like when we've installed all of them.
And what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to strengthen some of these fence
panels by using some giant cable ties and also some bit of wire,
now these giant cable ties are absolutely fantastic you can basically tie these fence panels
around the concrete post so where we've got those bits that are crumbling it just gives it a bit of
extra strength and makes it last years longer, the first one I'm going to do is the end fence panels
this is the last one in the row and I'm just going to use some wire here, now if you haven't got any
wire you can just use an old coat hanger wire, take a drill and a wooden drill bit and just
drill a hole through the fence panel and this is so that we can thread the wire through this hole,
once you've threaded enough wire through you can just snip it off with your pliers
and then you just need to tighten it up just by twisting it round and round
and that will pull it nice and tight,
and just give it a bit of extra strength now you won't even notice
this because the hedge will grow in about three or four months time,
I'm just going to bash it in with a hammer here just so it's slightly out of sight
fabulous, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to strengthen some of
the rest of the fence panels with these giant cable ties,
and there's a link above now about what to do if your curtains are sticking on
the curtain rails there's a really good tip to make them super smooth,
This is one of the concrete fence posts which is crumbling a bit, as earlier you just need to drill
some holes through the fence panels now these will need to be slightly longer to take the giant cable
ties, now I'm on my side here so you can see I've got the good side of the fence now we're back on
the neighbour's side and I'm just going to feed this cable tie through and then back around again,
so I'm on the neighbour's side here you can see there where the concrete fence post is
crumbling away but it's got plenty of strength it's not going anywhere, just saves having to
dig it all out and put in a new concrete fence post, now I'm back on our side again
so you just pull this cable tie through
put it into the clip this is slightly tricky filming with one hand and doing it with the other
just pull it through there
and then just pull it tight get it as tight as you can
and then take your pliers and you can just snip that end bit off,
you can put in as many of these as you like you can put one in at the top and one in at the bottom
whilst I'm just finishing that off there's
a link above now about how to install a new washing machine,
I'm just going to put another one here at the bottom
again it's the same process just drilling the holes in the fence panels on either side
of the post feeding the large cable tie through and then just tightening it up,
you don't have to do this but it just gives it a bit of extra strength
just stops it moving about inside the concrete fence post,
This is on my neighbour's side again nice and tight and this is what it looks like after it's
finished on my neighbour's side, I tell you what I'm really pleased with that, I think I'm just
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