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Figure 12 - Use a Piece of Wood Under Your Fence Panel to Preserve Your Desired Under Panel Gap
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Once you have both ends of a fence panel supported by a post, use your level to make sure its plumb on
both faces of the post (inside and outside) and is contacting your string line.
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Continue this process until you have hung all of your fence panels.
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IMPORTANT
– Make sure that you go back and check that everything is remaining level and plumb as
you progress through the fence post and panel installation. Since it is installed while the concrete is still
wet, any shaking or jostling of the fence could cause the posts to move slightly and no longer be level and
plumb. While the concrete is still wet, use a rubber mallet to tap and adjust your posts in place if anything
has shifted.
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Once your concrete has begin to set up, fill in the remaining 2-3 inches of your post holes with dirt.
Mound the dirt above the yard line so that you do not end up with a depression around the post once the
dirt settles.
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The final step will be to secure your fence panel rails to the post permanently using the supplied self-
tapping screws. The number of self-tapping screws used per panel will be based on the number of
horizontal rails on your fence panel. Each rail will have a screw drilled into both ends. So if you had a
fence panel with 3 horizontal rails, you would need 6 self-tapping screws (2 per rail x 3 rails = 6).
