How Do You Install An Iron Fence With Wood Posts?
To keep your family safe, you fence them in and everything else out. You want to make sure that the steps you take will last, but with everyone building fences these days, you don’t want them to all be the same. Take a different route from your neighbors and use wood posts with your wrought iron fence. Treat the bottom third of your fence posts with a preservative. Allow them to set overnight to become saturated. Drive stakes into the ground at your corner posts, and stretch string between them along the lines where you’ll set your fence posts. Using the string as a guide, drive a stake, marking each post. Space them 6 to 8 feet apart. Calculate one-third of the total length of your posts, and add a few extra inches. Use a post hole digger to dig a hole to that depth at each of your stakes. Shovel a few inches of gravel into each hole, and tamp it down. Place the treated part of your posts in the holes and pack them with dirt. Use a level to make sure they are perfectly upright, and pa
