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I finally got that old cedar fence in Boulder to stand straight
The client wanted to keep the original posts, but the ground had shifted so much over 20 years that every single one was leaning a different way. We spent three full days just digging, bracing, and packing concrete to get them plumb again, which was way longer than the one day we thought it would take. Anyone else run into a job where saving the old posts ended up being the hardest part?
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wendyd266mo ago
Sometimes it's smarter to just start fresh with new posts.
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garcia.riley6mo ago
Three days just to save the old posts is wild. Honestly, after the first day of that I would have been ready to give up. I get wanting to keep the original look, but that sounds like a brutal amount of work for something you can't even see once the fence is up. Tbh, I'm with @wendyd26 on this one. Sometimes the old wood is just too far gone and fighting with it costs more in labor than new materials ever would.
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