THE FENCE BLEW DOWN

[@malcelwell7209]

Another nice job by a professional team looks great Steve and Alex 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers malc 🧱👍🏽

[@lesgill6204]

Another cracking job, i remember moving into an new house, small ranch style fence separating the property off, so decided new fence, put those MET POSTS in, a few years later in a high wind the fence was blown down in parts, snap off at the top of the metal met posts, so took them all out and replaced them with concrete posts still solid as a rock. keep the vids coming, all the best lads.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Those meta posts don’t last long before the rust eats them 😬🧱👍🏼

[@TyphoonVstrom]

Comcrete posts are great. Our place was built in 1976, the original concrete posts are still there. Some are starting to crumble as the steel is corroding, but most are still doing well.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Sideslip As the old saying goes “they don’t make things like they used to “ the cheap stuff nowadays is pretty poor quality unfortunately 🧱🧱👍🏽

[@daverichardson5861]

Looks good. A few years back i did my fence down the length of the drive, only 4ft high. Some one mentioned putting some old stones (small bits and pebbles in the hole before putting post in) then put concrete in so water in the post can drain away as soil around it drys. That was in 1987 and they are still in first class condition. So it did work. But, it was also the day when wood was treated to last. We cant do that now. Keep making videos, love watching you guys.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Will do thanks Dave 🧱👍🏽

[@terenceoconnor1584]

Amazing! great fence build again you work so hard. Thank you

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Terrence 🧱👍🏼

[@davidbotterill7549]

Very smart. Top job. Dave Birmingham

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers Dave 🧱👍🏽

[@markhep]

Top job guys last a fair few years now that will 👍👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Mark Hep our old house fence was up 16 years and still standing , concrete posts don’t last that long 🧱👍🏼

[@markhep]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild your right the new concrete ones brake very easy there more like a sand and cement mix than concrete 👍👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Mark Hep 👌🏼😬🧱👍🏼

[@davidschank956]

I've done a lot of wood fence's and thay Are a lot of work.!

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🤙🏾🤙🏾🧱👍🏽

[@stun9771]

Got mine on-line a couple of years back, when I took out all the wooden posts and replaced with 9’ concrete posts...cheaper than in the shop by quite a bit, and saved a lot of work...

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Sounds good 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

[@richie9777]

When I nail those boards on I make a little template, saves keep using the measure.Why have they had the good side of the fence facing the waste ground?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Richard Powell I used 1 too 👍🏽. A boundary fence alway has the good side facing out , it more secure too , harder to climb over 🧱👍🏽

[@jameslawlor7377]

Something new?! Cant wait!!👍🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🔨🔨🔨💪🏽👍🏼🧱

[@oldmanfromyork]

I lots of these, board left to right, 12 mm overlapping, use an arris rail ( 4x1) to leave a neater finish..

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

oldmanfromyork 🧱👍🏽

[@davidmathews2219]

gooooooood job

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

David Mathews . Nice one thanks David . We love a bit of fencing 👌🏼🧱👍🏽

[@FPDEVELOPMENTSLTD]

Hi guys used to be a fencer myself before becoming a bricklayer a year ago was in the fencing four 5 years. Didn’t realise you guys did fences 👍🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Wazzy Skillz love a bit of fencing it’s a nice change 🧱👍🏼. We’ve got 43 metres to do on our new house 🏡

[@FPDEVELOPMENTSLTD]

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex longest bit of close board I ever did was 100m me and my old man started Monday home Wednesday lunch

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Wazzy Skillz ker ching 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

[@lincordery2506]

whats your measurement of your brick tongs they are brilliant steve made out of 12mm reinforcing rod by the look of them would love a set of those

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Lin Cordery .They are just designed to fit 3 hole bricks or if there are 10 holes you use one bar through the middle hole . 🧱🧱👍🏽

[@paulwhitting4953]

Nice looking fence, should be a 25mm overlap, you’ll be surprised how much the boards shrink in the summertime. 👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thanks for the tip pal 🧱🧱👍🏼

[@paulwhitting4953]

You’re welcome. 👍👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

paul whitting 🧱👍🏽

[@sydneyshinshi]

Man it rains a lot over there.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Michael Magill we’ve had our wettest ever February 😢🧱👍🏽👍🏽

[@DuyNguyen-hm8kk]

do you guys not add small rocks before placing your pole down the hole? it keeps the wood from contacting with the ground.. thats what we do here in the states.. You guys are jack of all trades..

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Duy Nguyen 🧱👍🏽

[@stevendunn5430]

Steve and alex. Great job! Is that pre treated wood. Will it not rot?

[@stevendunn5430]

Bricklayer can do many trades. But many trades cant do a bricklaying trade. Best in the business us brickies 🤣🤣🤣. Always shit on but cream rises to the top 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Dead right Steve 👌🏼. As for the timber it’s pressure treated so will last for years 😉🧱👍🏽

[@dennisphoenix1]

No gravel board ??

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

No pal 🧱👍🏼

[@rogerscottcathey]

We had our first snow just a week ago.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Pockets MacCartney it’s meant to be very cold this weekend too 😢🧱👍🏽

[@nelg1973]

If it floods, why use timber posts & not concrete?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

nelg1973 Diidnt know it flooded till I got there after the rain . Pressure treated timber will out last concrete posts anyway 🧱👍🏼

[@nelg1973]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild Really !

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

nelg1973 yep 💪🏼🧱👍🏽

[@Marshalltoon]

Office canteen transport. BOG👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

😬😂😂🧱👍🏼

[@derekt7606]

You guys must be so fed up of the dam rain. Gone on for ever.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Derek T yeah but we’ve had a solid dry week 💪🏽🧱👍🏼

[@chrislc35]

take u ages hand nailing them in wouldnt it? and shoulda used some of the old wood to walk on, less muddy then. nightmare weather to do that tho.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

🧱👍🏽

[@daiburt1833]

Well you have my un devided attention for my remaining 81 days of forced quarantine but I hope everything is going ok for you lads I'm sort of lucky being retired and the wife's a nurse crossed with a Pitbull but I hope you'll be fine 👍

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Cheers David it’s head down and arse up working very hard while we can . Worrying times ! You keep safe pal 💪🏼😷🤒🧱👍🏽

[@daiburt1833]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild everything's been cancelled .even the things I wasn't going to 😂even Mensa events 😂not a big concern only been to one in 1980 .the gym is open but I'm not allowed out I'm now watching Pakistanis fix power tools . I'm not a reader I don't enjoy that at all I've only ever read one book and I only read that because there was nothing else in the police station . But the chip yard delivers . It was quite a struggle getting them through the letter box though 😷😂😂😂😂

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

David Burt 😆🤣😆🧱👍🏽

[@JimJimpmjj]

Cracking job lads well done 👍 when I did my fence I used concrete posts think there worth the extra money and will last way longer. I found the post digger not very useful. The ground I was digging was very stoney, lots of stones and rubble in the ground, so just dug the holes with a spade , bucket and my hands. My holes were no where near as neat as yours, some were too deep 3ft plus (was aiming for 2ft) had to pack out with hardcore. And some were near 2ft wide lol 😂 I used on average 5 bags of postcrete per post. Some posts I used 8-10 bags!! One hole was so deep and wide I used 8bags of postcrete and 3 bags of ballast to make concrete to fill it out! All because I got carried away digging! Had some very high winds here and touch wood they are going strong.! Are you doing the inside or customer just wants outside cladded?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

james swain I find the concrete posts fragile and a decent pressure treated post will outlast concrete ones . We don’t dig with the diggers just get the muck out with them . 8 bags of post mix is a serious hole alright 😳🧱👍🏼

[@JimJimpmjj]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild ah I see! If I ever do a fence again I might try some decent wooden posts. Those concrete posts are so heavy! Nice job, is the customer leaving it like that or you going back to clad the inside too?

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

james swain . No probs . Double boarded is an option but I think they’re happy as it is 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

[@JimJimpmjj]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild ah cool. Look forward to the next job. 👍👍🍺🍺🍺

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

james swain Thanks james 🧱👍🏽

[@lincordery2506]

you could have put that postcrete in dry with the ground that wet it would of gone off stronger

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Lin Cordery Very true 😬🧱👍🏽

[@FPDEVELOPMENTSLTD]

Why don’t you use a fencing grafter instead of a spade saves a load of time and a lot easier

[@FPDEVELOPMENTSLTD]

The clappers are incredible lol

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Wazzy Skillz . I’ve got one , just used our new space on this one 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

[@daiburt1833]

I like a good fence lads . I'm a bit late today the wife made me a salad and wouldn't let me leave the table until I eat it . And my mate dropped a broken hilti off for me to repair that's my hobby . The woodworm must have been holding hand or that would have been down years ago 😂😷😂😂👷

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

I hope you ate it all and that fence was held up by them soddin brambles 😡🧱👍🏼

[@daiburt1833]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild yeah I did but like she said I could be eating grass with the other bulls . I only had four children's last week and now they've stopped cooking them in Tesco . Boris has shut the gyms so if you see packs of heavily built men wondering around looking bewildered approach with caution their natural habitat has been closed . I've been running a help line since six 😷😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🏋️

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

David Burt . Oh it’s Chaos 🤯🤯👍🏼🧱

[@Sageh44]

You should be Tar and feathering them posts 6 inches above ground and 12 below..... you will be back in 5 years to redo the job....

[@JimJimpmjj]

What does tar and feathering mean? Please can you explain?? Thanks kind regards

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Richard Casson If the posts were just softwood you would be right but these are pressure treated . I did one at my old house and it was still standing after 16 years . If you get decent quality posts they will outlast concrete ones . 🧱👍🏼

[@sydneyshinshi]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild They just wack treated pine posts in a hole and throw dry quickset in around and hose in here in Australia and they last 30 years or so.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Michael Magill 🧱👍🏽

[@Sageh44]

james swain . Use a bit bitumen product to protect the wood from rot at ground level.

[@dennisphoenix1]

Should have put the rails and boards on the house side , nobody sees the back

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

We did it that way round so it was more secure . 🧱👍🏼

[@lmilne4859]

Them diggers things useless just a heavy metal tubular pole get solid digging spade blade weld them together. 5f pole or so 👍🏻

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

We don’t dig with them , we loosen it up with a spade and get the muck out with the diggers 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

[@lmilne4859]

Bricklaying With Steve and Alex Messing about min 😆😆 lol top work buddy. 😎

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

L Milne 😉👍🏼🧱

[@thanxx]

you can tell your a bricky not a fencer

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

thanxx . Thanks thaxxs

[@thanxx]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild thats a compliment by the way. as far as im concerned one of the best youtube brickies by far.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

thanxx . Wow thanks a lot pal , much appreciated 🧱🧱👍🏽