Fence construction advise
The back of my property has a North-South solid faced fence 6”high vinyl construction, 5” posts. There is a little over 60’ between the fence and the back of my house. The other side of the fence is a large open field, A few months back we had a thunder storm come through from the west, significant but nothing remarkable for the weather here, the fence was none the less damaged, panels blown out, sections leaning west. The fence is in a “special easement zone”, I being responsible for its maintenance. It seems prudent to me that looking into increasing the strength of the fence would be a good idea along with and before considering any repairs. The first step would be getting the specs on the original install. I contacted Dist. government and Property management and was told to contact the installer, “Tri County Landscaping” “they could supply that information” My first Email to Tri County asked for the specs as a first step the response was my request would be given to a supervisor, that they could schedule an inspection regarding repairs,, for a fee of $105.00, deducted from any work done, my response was that I need the specs to know how I would proceed, no response, repeated the request with no response. Re-Contacted the Villages looking for guidance as of yet no response. In the meantime I took a closer look at the fence. It appears that the fence posts were just seated in a hole not much larger than the 5” post, a small amount of concrete, not necessarily on all sides of the post just a few inches down was used to hold the post on place. I am not by any means a structural engineer but to my untrained eye I don’t’ think you would put up a 6’ solid faced fence of any kind up anywhere in this country that way, much less here with the weather and sandy ground conditions. Be all that as it may I need to fix the fence, my idea,, 24” embedment, 12” concrete footer, two 3/8 , 22” vertical rebar 90* east and west of fence line attached to two 10” 3/8 circular rebar, 8” from top and bottom of vertical rebar.
Looking for input, suggestions from that remarkable, diverse, talented, slice of Americana that is the Villages,, TIA
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