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My gate sagged 3 inches and I spent 2 whole weekends chasing the wrong fix
Built a 4 foot cedar gate last month and within a week it dropped enough to drag on the concrete. I figured the hinges were junk so I swapped them twice, then added a turnbuckle brace, and it still sagged, which ate up two full weekends in the Texas heat. Turned out my post hole was only 18 inches deep and the whole thing was leaning, so the real fix was pulling the post and redoing it at 30 inches with 60 lbs of concrete. Anyone else skip the dirt and just keep bolting on hardware hoping it works?
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davidh8810h ago
Why do we all chase the hardware first instead of just checking if the post is solid?
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