Hi,
My neighbour recently replaced his fence between our properties. The fence has concrete posts with grooves into which the panels have been inserted. Unfortunately his back fence has been erected about 2 feet closer to his house, I now have a two foot gap between the new rear fence and the old rear fence which leads onto the car park for the flats behind our houses. For the moment I have placed an old door against the gap so our dog does not escape.
Now while looking at how to best permanently get around the problem we have noticed that the corner post has a certain amount of give in it. I would have expected these to be securely concreted into the gound so they do not move. Is that a reasonable expectation? The fence was installed back in early March. The company that did it replaced the whole fence (back and side) in about 8 hours and I suspect they have taken some short cuts. On our side of the fence near the corner post there were three old dead trees which we took down last year but left the roots and a short stump in place. I suspect there would have been quite a root system going under the area of the post and am thinking that maybe they did not clear it out enough.
The reason I ask is that our initial thought was to use the corner post as part of the structure for our fence to block the two foot gap. As there is some give in the post though I do not want to do anything that makes it worse.
Thanks
Andy
My neighbour recently replaced his fence between our properties. The fence has concrete posts with grooves into which the panels have been inserted. Unfortunately his back fence has been erected about 2 feet closer to his house, I now have a two foot gap between the new rear fence and the old rear fence which leads onto the car park for the flats behind our houses. For the moment I have placed an old door against the gap so our dog does not escape.
Now while looking at how to best permanently get around the problem we have noticed that the corner post has a certain amount of give in it. I would have expected these to be securely concreted into the gound so they do not move. Is that a reasonable expectation? The fence was installed back in early March. The company that did it replaced the whole fence (back and side) in about 8 hours and I suspect they have taken some short cuts. On our side of the fence near the corner post there were three old dead trees which we took down last year but left the roots and a short stump in place. I suspect there would have been quite a root system going under the area of the post and am thinking that maybe they did not clear it out enough.
The reason I ask is that our initial thought was to use the corner post as part of the structure for our fence to block the two foot gap. As there is some give in the post though I do not want to do anything that makes it worse.
Thanks
Andy
