My Daughter's Fence

[PAGUY]

KevT - Your posts are the exact reason I would NEVER live south of the Mason-Dixon line. PA all the way.

I agree with s219's post. I've used my gun to attach to cured concrete. It is the best way to attach IMO.

 

[bindian]

I've had great success with anchor bolts in concrete, I don't really care for the screws. Even when using the drill bit provided and drilling an inch or more deeper then the length of the screw, I find they don't always grip, or even worse, they wont go in all the way. I have a SDS rotary hammer that I carry with me all the time in my truck for half inch holes or smaller, plush chipping concrete, and then I have a 1 9/16 SDS Max rotary hammer for larger holes and jack hammering. The weight difference and cost is significant, but so is the power.

If you go with the screws, be sure to get the hex head ones. The phillips heads are very hard to get tight and not strip out.

Eddie

Eddie,
I was going to go with hex screws. But am now going with eye bolts set in the concrete. I'll go ahead and wire the bottom of the bolts to the rebar I am installing.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I forget what Texas is like... only lived in the pan handle for a short time. But here in FL we put screen enclosures around our pools to keep insects, snakes and gators out of the pool. Actually you can include coons, and them long skinny legged birds too. Not to mention leaves and grass clippings. We call em "Bird Cages" although it is to cage em out, not in. And looking at what I just wrote, why do I live here exactly??? Gators, snakes, birds with sharp beaks... makes you wonder

My wife is a CAM manager and I know she would agree that if you went to the HOA and told them to do it right it would take longer. I work for HOAs all the time, and find them agreeable as long as it doesn't cost them money.

I would cut little blocks out of 2x4s and anchor those, then run your bottom plate on top of them. That allows water to run under the fence (no dam created, nothing to catch debris) and air to circulate allowing to dry. You can still do it with bolts, just counter sink the nuts and cut the bolts flush

Swimming inside? That's no fun. We got everything you mentioned here. Well, no yellow flies. We usually have someone sitting shotgun when we swim. What's a No Seeums? Also, what's a CAM Manager?

The concrete is 3.5 inches wide. The 2x4 will cover the concrete, so no water ponding or daming. I'm toying with the idea of bolting 2x4x4 blocks to the concrete and then nailing from there. I just didn't want to have to add wire under the lower 2x4 the way the neighbor did in the photo. It looks like it was a screw up that was "patched" to cover the gap.

Let me rephrase my statement about dealing with the HOA..........I don't like dealing with them and I want to wrap this project up and not drag it out two more weeks. It will be 6 weeks as it is, because of the distance. Besides, I have too many projects here at home wetting my whistle.

Where in the Panhandle did you live? My Dad was born and raised on a farm in Higgins, in Liscomb County......the upper northeast corner of the Panhandle.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

KevT - Your posts are the exact reason I would NEVER live south of the Mason-Dixon line. PA all the way.

Yeah. Texas and Florida.............home of the brave.:thumbsup:
hugs, Brandi

 

[KevT]

Swimming inside? That's no fun. We got everything you mentioned here. Well, no yellow flies. We usually have someone sitting shotgun when we swim. What's a No Seeums? Also, what's a CAM Manager?


LOL "No Seeums" are a tiny little flying bug that bites big time, and they are so small you can't see them, hence the name. Generally come out dusk & dawn. They fly in groves and have no mercy. I kid you not!!!

CAM stands for Community Association Manager. The manager of a HOA. The person that keeps the Board Officers in check but has no personal interest in the association.

What if... never mind, you know what you want. I should be the last person to tell someone how to do something, I don't like it when others do it to me. LOL Can't wait to see it all finished. You are working to hard and thinking about it to much for it to come out any thing but beautiful. Your Daughter is very lucky!!!

 

[KevT]

Here ya go
No-See-Ums, But You Feel 'Em - Bug Squad - ANR Blogs

 

[Northcountryboy]

Another good way to fasten a 2x4 to concrete is drill a 3/16 inch hole deep enough for a 16d. Cut a piece of tie wire slightly longer than the depth of the hole. Insert the wire then hammer in your 16d. Hopefully you never have to remove the 2x4. Much cheaper than tapcon's.

 

[bindian]

My son and I poured the concrete yesterday and today. Glad I didn't try it alone, as it's very hard to tilt a wheelbarrow with concrete on a downward slope in black gumbo slick mud and hit a 3.5 inch wide opening. My son tilted the wheelbarrow to my command and then I hoed out the "mud mix" into the abyss. We lucked out and had enough of a dry spell to pour. Mud on my rubber boots made my boots look like clown shoes........about a foot wide. It was slicker than when we set the posts. We mixed the mud mix out on the driveway in front of the garage and trucked it through the garage and down the sloping backyard. We mixed it this way to keep from handling the concrete sacks too much and under garage cover. We came with 30 sacks under a tarp and got hit by the bad storms on the way. Numerous sacks were wet when we arrived and were failing apart.

I'm not going back to finish until that gumbo hardens up. We worked so fast..............to beat any new rain..........we didn't even take photos. I got free use of an elelctric concrete mixer, compliments of the owner of my local welding shop. We mixed 48.5 sacks of 50 pound concrete and had about two mixed sacks worth left over. I am tuckered.
hugs, Brandi

 

[KevT]

That is a lot of work, you should be tuckered, and proud of what you got done:thumbsup:

 

[bindian]

That is a lot of work, you should be tuckered, and proud of what you got done:thumbsup:

Thanks KevT. Once we got the mixing and pouring going, everything went fast. Since we only brought 30 sacks with us and had 5.5 sacks on hand............we had to spend time this morning running into Lowes in Austin (sight seeing at it's best) and get 15 more sacks and 8 more eyebolts.

The sack concrete from Austin had small angled white stones instead of pea gravel we have here in Southeast Texas. The pea gravel strikes off better and disappears. The angled white rock isn't what I would like to work with all the time. Kinda sticks out like a sore thumb after striking off. So I gather sack concrete's gravel/rocks are all regional.
hugs, Brandi