OT - Post footing, mix or no mix?

[huskerfan66]

I never dig a post hole less than three feet deep. Also I never use concrete. Just tamp the dirt. I never have issues with rot

I was going to post this (pardon the pun) as well. 2 ft holes definitely not deep enough.

 

[TheBeav815]

I was going to post this (pardon the pun) as well. 2 ft holes definitely not deep enough.

It's only 4-foot fencing. I've seen multiple places say your footing should be 1/3 the total post length, so that would be 2' holes for 6' posts.

 

[DerHusker]

Nice!
Putting up another 60' ipe fence here in SB (once it stops raining, and dries out). Those look like a slick system. Look heavier gage than the many I've seen. Galvanized I assume. Would you happen to have a link to where one could purchase such an item?

Ipe fence:

They are "PostMaster" posts made by Master Halco. You'll need to search for them. Some Home Depots / Lowes have them but not all. Here's a link to the installation instructions.
Link: http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/a3/a38d3135-b911-4916-bef6-ad5f91b8ba1a.pdf

Beav; In the instructions they show how you can do a gate with them. Down side is it appears they are 8' posts for 6' tall fencing. Maybe you can find 6' posts for 4' fencing but I don't know.

 

[TwinsRRUs]

Yeah, in addition to all that work in the front I had to climb into the window well in the back and dig it down lower, cut 3" off the drain pipe, put the grate back on it and then fill with rock. Those two efforts eliminated 2/3 of the places water was getting into the basement.

I completely forgot about the window well filling up with water in our current house! I had to dig it out and placed a lot of gravel and sand it in... also figured out that the back gutter that runs the length of the 72' house, was not sloped toward the downspouts! So I had to adjust them since the water dumped right over the gutter and directly into the window well.

The wife hates water in the basement... any time it happens, she gets after me constantly until I do something about it.

If your gutters are clogged, downspout not functioning, and most importantly, grades around the house not adequate - yes, you will end up with water in your basement.

If anyone has a flooding problem, adding a length of corrugated extention to the downspout will fix it, temporarily. However, I used to work in an industry in which we often connected peoples' downspouts to pvc pipe and drains, ensuring the end drain was 2% away from its origin.

Water problems sure suck. My parents ran their gutters into PVC pipe that went underground for 30 feet and let it go down a hill so the yard between the house and sidewalk quit filling up with a few inches of water.

Gotta love owning a home!!!!

 

[CheeseRunza]

It's only 4-foot fencing. I've seen multiple places say your footing should be 1/3 the total post length, so that would be 2' holes for 6' posts.

You want to go deep enough that the post/fence resists the forces of wind, gravity etc working against it (1/3 is a general starting point), but you may also want to go deep enough to be below the frost line in your area to resist heaving (3' in most of Nebraska).

 

[SantaBarbaraSker]

They are "PostMaster" posts made by Master Halco. You'll need to search for them. Some Home Depots / Lowes have them but not all. Here's a link to the installation instructions.
Link: http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/a3/a38d3135-b911-4916-bef6-ad5f91b8ba1a.pdf

Beav; In the instructions they show how you can do a gate with them. Down side is it appears they are 8' posts for 6' tall fencing. Maybe you can find 6' posts for 4' fencing but I don't know.

Thanks much. I'll look into it.