Installing Vinyl Fencing On Concrete

Vinyl is a good choice for an attractive easily maintained fence system.

Installing vinyl fencing on concrete.

Lay out the fence. Plan your fence and follow the rules photo 1. Below grade and pack in soil on top of the wet concrete. Whether a vinyl pool fence viny.

To install a vinyl fence start by using a power auger or a post hole digger to dig the holes for your fence posts. 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. Concrete will then need to be poured into this hole. If attaching your vinyl fence posts to concrete footing then begin by digging a post hole.

We have shorter posts for our fences for this purpose. Vinyl fencing isn t subject to rot fading or other effects of weather and time as wood fencing can be. Specify above ground installation when ordering. Installing a vinyl fence.

You will dig this hole to where it is about 1 3 of the length of your post and about 10 inches in diameter. Below we will discuss a few ways to install a fence on a concrete slab. This is one method among many to set a hollow vinyl post on a concrete pad or sidewalk. Get the bottom 6 inches of your hole filled with gravel and put in rebar posts.

Otherwise stop filling the holes with concrete about 4 in. 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. 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. It could be used for fence posts hand rail or porch columns.

Vinyl fencing is a relatively new maintenance free type of fencing. Stretch a string line tightly along the proposed fence run locate the corner posts and dig 3 ft deep postholes. Plumb the posts and. It s available in forms similar to both wood panel and rail fencing.

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.