That time a retired guy told me my post holes were way too shallow for a 6ft privacy fence

This old timer walked up to my job site in Nashville last month and said I needed 36 inch minimum for a 6 footer. I told him I had been doing 24 inches for years and never had a problem. Then we got that big storm last week and three sections of a fence I built in March are leaning bad. Now I'm gonna have to go back and redo them at my own cost. Has anyone else had something like this backfire on them?

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gonzalez.rowan21d ago

Three leaning panels isn't exactly a disaster.

noah24820d ago

Honestly that stings. You trusted your experience and then nature showed you up hard. I had something similar happen with a deck I built - thought my footings were deep enough until a wet spring hit and the whole thing started shifting. Had to jack it up and pour new ones. Cost me a weekend and way more concrete than I planned. Sucks having to go back, but at least you caught it before anything worse happened.