Corrugated Metal Fence with Wooden Posts
This is Craig for Capn America Projects.
Thanks for joining us again.
You might have seen one of our previous ideas,
we showed you how to do a laminate fence.
Now we are going to show you how to do a corrugated
fence with wooden posts.
So come along and join us in our adventure
and we will put this fence up together.
The first thing you want to do is run your
strings when you are doing your fence.
You want to make sure you have nice straight
lines so what I did is I made a nice straight
line from the corners of where the fence is
going to go.
That gives you a good idea of where to dig.
Normally you would have the string several
inches back before you dig.
What I've done is made the string a couple
of feet off the ground so that when I dig
with my post hole digger I can line it up
and dig it out as an angle and push the string
back as I dig.
The reason I'm doing it this way is that the
neighbors have an old decayed fence and I
don't ant to mess with taking it out.
That is not my fence so I'm going to put my
fence as close to that as I can and basically
just hide that fence and if they ever want
to take that out then that is great.
Then they can enjoy the nice fence that I'm
going to be putting up.
Where the strings meet there just straight
down from there and that will be the first
hole.
Lets get it started.
I got my hole done and unfortunately I ran
in to water.
This is not something you want to have.
The water is about 16 inches down.
I dug my hole almost two feet down and then
filled up to about the 6 inch mark.
If I had some gravel I would put some gravel
in there.
That way the post isn't buried in water because
that is definitely going to make the post
rot quicker than I wanted to.
I have eight foot poles.
You want to go about two feet down and have
6 feet up because a typical residential fence
is 6 feet tall.
We have all of our posts cemented in.
Lets have a look.
If you notice on a couple of these I used
some wood forms to help shape it in.
That is because the ground was a little low
here and I needed the cement to come above
the ground a bit because I can only dig down
so deep because of the water table.
There you have our nice row of posts.
Here is a quick tip.
If you live in a cold wet climate then you
want 
to wait longer for the cement to dry.
Three days later.
The next thing we are going to do is drill
our holes in the metal and go ahead and mount
the metal to the posts.
Here we go.
I like to drill my holes while the sheets
are laying on the ground.
I just put it on the grass and I can drill
through easy instead of trying to drill while
I'm putting them up.
I'm going to go ahead and put my sheet in
place and screw it in.
What I'm using is these metal lave screws
because they have a nice flat under part of
the head that gives it alot of space to grip
on to the other metal.
The way I do it when I'm putting them in is
I line up the two sheets of metal.
Then I put in just the to[ screw on the next
sheet I'm doing that way I can move it and
level it.
Then I come down to the next post and now
since only the one screw is in then I can
raise or lower this until I get it level.
I'm judging level by the posts which are already
level so you can eyeball it to make it in
to a nice straight line and then screw it
in.
If you have soft wood you can start the screw
by hand and then use the drill to finish it
off.
Then put in the rest of the screws.
I have all of the bottom panels finished.Since
we are at a wet climate I'm just going to
put in the bottom sheets at first to wait
longer to put more weight on the posts so
that the cement can dry out a bit more.
I will come back in about a week and put up
the rest.
I put the wood on the inside because I like
to see the contrast of the wood against the
metal.
You can put the metal sheets on the inside
if you prefer.
A couple of weeks later.
We now have all of the metal sheets on and
you can see our whole fence here.
I think it can out pretty nice.
We have one more step we are going to do.
This is a two man job so one person holds
it at one end and the other person screws
it in at the other.
We did a little bit of overlap on all the
metal about an inch to make it stronger.
We have decided to put two by fours along
the seams to make it look nice and also to
make the fence stronger.
I will pre drill the holes on the 2 x 4 . To
do a good angle, you start going straight
and then when you get in a little bit you
angle it toward the final drill direction.
I like to already start the screws before
you put the board up 
so that they will be ll ready to go.
Then I do 
the other side, same thing.
Now we will screw in the 2 x 4.
You need two people.
One person holds one end and the other screws
in the other end.
We have the main structure of the fence done.
What we are going to do is go around to the
back and put in these self piercing screws
so we don't have to drill holes through the
metal so we will put a couple screws in to
the metal and the two by fours too pull them
up tight and that is pretty much it! and you
have a nice strong fence.
Here 
you go, here is 
the final fence.
Thanks for watching!
