Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time
and money and today just a quick little tip on fence panels, now these are just basic fence
panels and I'm just going to show you how to strengthen them so they'll last a lot longer,
right let's get cracking. I've got six of these fence panels to fit and this is just a standard
fence panel that I got from Wickes and these fence panels are designed to slide into these
grooves on these concrete posts, now you can see the state of the old ones they're all bowed and
twisted from years and years of wind and rain and rot, and I've got lots of them to replace.
Now here's one of the fence panels that we're going to strengthen
and as you can see you've got these two batons in the middle which go from the top to the bottom,
now these are just nailed through from one side to the other and obviously over time nails will
go rusty and they will gradually work themselves loose, and then the fence panel will slowly
deteriorate. So what we're going to do we're just going to bind those together now these battens
as I say are nailed through to the other side and on the other side you've got an identical batten,
so that's what keeps it all nice and rigid. What you're going to need is you're going to need a
drill and you're going to need a wooden drill bit, I always drill a pilot hole because otherwise if
you screw directly into wood it can split and it just makes it a lot easier. Make sure you measure
this up so that the drill bit doesn't go all the way through to the other side just so it pulls
in nice and tight and obviously make sure that the drill bit is smaller than the screw that
you're going to be screwing in. Now I'm going to be putting three screws on each batten so that
is six screws per fence panel so take your drill bit and drill your first pilot hole
Then take your galvanized rust proof screw and again make sure it's not longer than the fence
panel otherwise it's going to stick through to the other side and annoy your neighbours!
So take your cordless screwdriver and just screw this in nice and tight and you'll see
at the end as it tightens it in, it literally pulls the battens together and just gives it a
bit of extra strength, with six of those three on each batten it just means that this fence panel
will probably last a lot longer than it would have done before. Whilst I'm doing
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So we've got three on this batten here
If you want to you can put something at the top but that is pretty rigid at the top
this is my next fence panel just going to put some more screws into this, I've already drilled
the pilot holes you can see there at the end it's just pulling it in nice and tight to the batten
in behind it on the other side, so we've got three on each baton one there one in the middle
and one at the bottom, I've got six fence panels to fit so that is 36 pilot holes and 36 screws.
You can see here where the screw comes through on the other side
obviously you don't want screws longer than the actual width of the battens because you
do not want that poking through onto the other side, now to give it a bit of
extra strength what you could do is you could just put another bat in a crossways like this
but obviously if you're sliding it into the concrete posts that is not then going to fit,
so you could just make a shorter version and just screw that into the battens across the middle
and just cut that to size just to give it a bit of extra strength. Little hand says it's time
for a cup of tea and after all that hard work it is definitely time for a lovely cup of tea
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