How to Install a Chain Link Fence | The Home Depot with

Installing a chain link fence is a project that can be completed in a day or two, depending on the area. Of the many fencing options, chain link is among the most budget-friendly. Check out our Fencing playlist for more tips and tricks: thd.co/2BXAB6i
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Follow these steps to install a chain link fence:
0:00 How to install a chain link fence
0:20 Check permitting requirements and utilities locations
0:33 Layout fence layout and mark fence post locations
0:44 Dig post holes
0:55 Mix concrete and add to post holes
1:34 Add terminal posts and line rail clamp
1:55 Use mason's line to measure line height and cut post holes
2:18 Run top rails through holes
2:28 Measure and cut bottom rails
2:50 Installing chain link fence fabric
4:15 Installing chain link fence gate
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How to Install a Chain Link Fence | The Home Depot with ‪@thisoldhouse‬
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[@mplsfarmer]

The video states to use a portable bandsaw to cut the tops of the line posts. That’s not a real common tool in the arsenal of many DIY homeowners. I think an angle grinder with a metal cut-off wheel or a sawzall with a bimetal blade could work as well. Kudos for keeping the video straight forward and simple.

[@mattpiekarski8855]

I've never heard of anyone cutting off the tops. I am doing one without concrete. Its a 5' fence with 8' posts. Driving the posts in 3' with a power post pounder is easier than digging holes, and pouring concrete.

[@gr6e]

I just dig the hole to the right depth. If it's an inch or two higher than it should be, I pound it down to the correct height before the concrete cures

[@mplsfarmer]

@@mattpiekarski8855 i like your method!

[@fixerupperer]

​@@mattpiekarski8855 if someone does that protect the tops from mushrooming.

[@user-tw9op2zt4y]

😂 Well how complicated could some bullshit like this be, for fucks sake?

[@dontump2286]

@3:30 pull the fence until its TAUGHT! You teach that fence a lesson.

[@gillgjr]

Thanks I needed a refresher.

[@planesandbikes7353]

You don't necessarily need a bottom rail, can just use wire along the bottom, pulled tight and hog ringed to the chainlink fabric. I did a combo of digging& pounding the posts in place, and used some Sika foam at the gates, to avoid the hassle of concrete. Also I bought some nice massdam stretcher clamps from amazing-on (hint) to pull the fabric tight to the terminal posts, no need for a jack and rake or whatever they used.

[@smallnuts2]

oh man. I only did my post a 1 foot deep. Its just a 4 foot gate door to my trash area. Plan to do a concrete slab so post will be inside of that.

[@XSTAYUPX]

WOW! Thank you!!

[@komrad40]

Thank you.

[@rvarnum]

I would have hinged the gate on the post that had the fabric on it. When you hang a gate on a single post, it tends to sag.

[@FernandoRodriguez-ds5ri]

In this case it was the right thing to do.

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

You guys sound like your doing this for bears like I am!! lol Upstate NY is home for me.

[@_P0tat07_]

I love this old house. Such a great source of knowledge.

[@ovadiadan]

She was in This Old House

[@TimeforchangeTrudeaumustgoEndb]

Can you just drive in your line post without using concrate?

[@GarouSavage]

It depends on your local soil composition. If your soil is really loose and sandy, no. If your soil is harder and more clay saturated, you can get away with it, but you have to put the post deeper, drive it 30-36 rather than 20-24 if you are not using concrete. I would recommend spacing the posts every 6 feet, rather than 8-10, if you are just driving the posts as well, so they have less weight on each post. If you get flooding or really heavy rains or earth quakes, I would recommend using concrete, not just post driving. The biggest issue with solely post driving though, is the weather will eat at the posts over time, with it directly against the soil, not having concrete to protect it.

[@appyvan5222]

I like how they DONT even show you or tell you what apparatus they used in the video to pull the fence "TAUT".

[@TheGrobe]

You use a fence stretcher and a come along

[@johnkennpacino9610]

Are you delivering this fence worldwide?

[@Guerrero1187]

24” deep even in states where it freezes or go down 43”???

[@totallycv2388]

in that case, every 5 years you'll have to cut random lengths off the post tops to compensate for rising posts.

[@Guerrero1187]

@@totallycv2388 lol I thought so. 4' on everything here in Michigan

[@chitownbangin]

Yeah it was a kind of weak demonstration.

[@TheGrobe]

@@Guerrero1187 Are you saying you go 4 foot deep with the posts because the ground freezes? I’m trying to understand if it’s better to go deeper when it freezes?

[@Guerrero1187]

@@TheGrobe 48” deep to be below the frost line in Michigan

[@kelliem1978]

How much concrete per terminal post ? Line post?

[@_P0tat07_]

A bag and a half maybe is what it took us

[@specops1903]

About at least a bag if not another additional half bag more.

[@gr6e]

I last did chain link when I was like 12 years old and I think we did one 60 pound bag for line posts and two 60 lb bags for terminal posts. I was watching this video hoping they'd say for sure but nobody seems to give exact numbers. I guess just use whatever you think you'll need?

[@FernandoRodriguez-ds5ri]

One 60 pound bag

[@EnriqueGarcia-gw7xy]

See this is why there is a pay gap. You sit there in an office running your mouth on how to do the work you have never even seen done. All while the guy is doing all the labor in the heat of the sun. Why don't you go check out lowes video on this? That woman actually works on the project she's explaining and does a damn fine job doing so. With much more details and information by example.

[@netheriteingots5896]

Thank you, Now I have a fence that can block off Karen's croutch goblins from my dogs

[@ashmototherapy]

Amazing

[@angelf9800]

What would the cost be to install one

[@irisgarcia8315]

Just paid 300 + rn and still missing items

[@specops1903]

Depends on the length really

[@gr6e]

@@irisgarcia8315 for what? Just a gate? 100 feet? A mile? $300 means nothing without context.

[@doc3992]

Just had Lowes come do an estimate for 274 feet, 1 4ft gate and 1 double gate. $6998

[@LionsLamb79]

Like most things, you pay more for the labor. If you choose to diy, of course it's going to be thousands less, but YOU have to do it. Assemble a parts list, there's tons of fencing calculators out there, add in a minimum of $15 an hour times at least 2 times however many feet you think you could resonably install per hour then you are getting close to what it would be to install. Cheaper if you pick up a laborer or 2 outside Home Depot when you pick up your fence supplies give them both $100 and a 12 pack and bam fence done!

[@wilsonpadilla3577]

Cost for .80 acre land?

[@specops1903]

How high do you want the fence?

[@wilsonpadilla3577]

5 feet

[@specops1903]

@@wilsonpadilla3577 how many gates were you thinking?

[@wilsonpadilla3577]

2 gates

[@specops1903]

@@wilsonpadilla3577 probably looking around 2.5-5k depending on your location. I know on the west coast fencers charge a bit for chain link.

[@76orton]

Nice video but not a very detailed video. After doing a chain link fence and re-watching this video let’s me see how many steps are left out of not really explained

[@LightGesture]

Tell me your not a native American without telling me... "Pull the fence toght". Gg Thanks for the video

[@KingdomOfAces]

"Until it's toat " you mean tight right?

[@joetroutt7425]

Taut is past tense for tight. Just thought I would let you learn something today.

[@appyvan5222]

​@@joetroutt7425WTF says TAUT? NO ONE. Ive never used or heard anyone use it in my life and Im OLD.

[@Daveyjokes]

​@@appyvan5222 literally everyone in the trades.

[@LionsLamb79]

"Run the top rails through the holes" 😉 Hey tatted daddie, I see what you did there!

[@paulrusin3344]

Hell no.

[@stevef1304]

Funny you show a black fence when home depo doesnt even sell a black one smh

[@chuckspencer2703]

I bought a black fence from Home Depot

[@jasoncogswell5984]

Yes, they do.

[@bradleysimkins3426]

Yes they do

[@JSAEPHANHVIDEOS]

Online buddy

[@rihamy2nd]

I’m building one with materials I bought from Home Depot