The pole holding communal washing line up is at an angle. It's had postcrete put on it ages ago. I put some more around outside of old stuff and seems to have held it in place. Is it a case of constantly digging around the outside (of old concrete)and putting more and in every time it ?
Keeping washing line upright
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How far down does the wider pole go?
What you are doing at the moment is clearly only a temporary fix.
Off the top of my head... perhaps bung a scaffolder a few quid for a 2ft length of scaffold pole, bury that in new postcrete and if the receiver for the washing line pole is a smaller diameter, then "glue" that in to the ground level scaffold pole.
What you are doing at the moment is clearly only a temporary fix.
Off the top of my head... perhaps bung a scaffolder a few quid for a 2ft length of scaffold pole, bury that in new postcrete and if the receiver for the washing line pole is a smaller diameter, then "glue" that in to the ground level scaffold pole.
The lump of concrete is probably moving in the soft ground.
Drive a stake ( angle iron or similar rigid item ) into the ground and then add the concrete. The stake will prevent the concrete from moving in the soft top soil
Drive a stake ( angle iron or similar rigid item ) into the ground and then add the concrete. The stake will prevent the concrete from moving in the soft top soil
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Probably goes down about a foot
Not post crete?
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Is this a washing line or rotary?
the load on a line is pretty high.
the strongest way is to remove what you have, and make the hole a bit bigger, so long as the soil is undisturbed.
Use a trowel or a proper post hole spade so that you have a good hole in solid earth.
Then drive in some rebar or angle iron so it goes down into the soil but sticks up into the hole but not out of it.
Either sit the pole in there, or use a bit of plastic pipe big enough to be a receiver for the pole.
use postcrete which can be bulked up with bricks and check it is vertical
the load on a line is pretty high.
the strongest way is to remove what you have, and make the hole a bit bigger, so long as the soil is undisturbed.
Use a trowel or a proper post hole spade so that you have a good hole in solid earth.
Then drive in some rebar or angle iron so it goes down into the soil but sticks up into the hole but not out of it.
Either sit the pole in there, or use a bit of plastic pipe big enough to be a receiver for the pole.
use postcrete which can be bulked up with bricks and check it is vertical
See my post for a diagram.
If a rotary what the op doing should be fine. If a line, angle the posts away from each other - the poles don't need to be upright.
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So the rebar would be driven pretty deep
Just did another washing line in my block of flats to save money, previous one was a massive lump (in pix). We used some bricks at bottom then a plastic tube which pole slots into (got a cap on it), but not sure used enough rubble or postcrete or tube is deep enough. Quite a wide hole
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