How To Attach Your Fence To Your House The Right Way

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[BSSVIDEOS]

In Florida if you attach the fence to your house it will be covered under your house insurance as it becomes structural. Learned this right after hurricane Ian. So there is a great reason to do it.

[raystraining]

We do it in Florida because after hurricane Micheal, every homeowners insurance denied the fence replacement cost because it wasn't attached to the house. Every fence we install the owner ask to have it attached because their insurance company stiffed them. We still put a post next to the house, whether it's wood, chain link, or vinyl.

[jschlaud]

As a fellow tradesman in the construction industry, I like this guy, and I approve this message.

[Bacrenfencing]

I attach to houses all the time as it is impossible to dig a hole through the drainage pipes that often run along the base of house is common to do this in the UK. All new build properties in the UK have their fences running off the house walls. Gates are usually hung off of the house walls as well. I know you are based in the US where things are obviously different.

[gussygoro]

My neighbor attached his fence to his house and though it looks awful I was jealous of the simplicity. This video has saved my mortar. Thanks!

[Username-esiy]

Lmao thumbnail said the answer”DONT” but I still watched the video

Thanks

[metalspork]

Thank you for the very informative information and saving me making a dumb mistake!

[landmarkcreations]

A lot of houses where I’m at have 6” drain lines running around the house. In some cases when the job calls for 4x4 you have no choice but to attach unless you want some hokey small panel (like the one in the video). Certain styles of wood fence you can face nail and get around it but sometimes there’s no other way but to attach

[JasonHoningford]

In Florida there is concrete overpour from the slab, so there is usually no room to dig a hole next to the house. 5/16 lag bolts with concrete anchors do the trick on a block house. Patching and painting is easy peasy if you take it down after 20 years.

[iuvfxfo]

Do you have suggestions other than dig a hole? I have a gas line that runs a long my house to my meters and we were trying to look at putting stone kind of fencing there but we're thinking of just attaching it to house because we can't bury it in the ground

[scottsatterthwaite]

Almost all new home use perimeter drains. You can't dig close enough to set a post. There are many situations where just saying "Don't" doesn't cut it. Attaching a post to a building (house, garage, etc) may not be the best option, sometimes its the ONLY option.

[fnceco.]

Love the channel, but I’m going to have to disagree with this one. 1) Faded paint or brick shouldn’t be a thought. 30 years from now grab a power washer and move on. 2) Holes in the brick can be filled with a 4 dollar silicone tube. lags into the house are 1/64 smaller than the fastener, interface fit probably get more moisture from condensation on windows. 3) we aren’t drilling into someone’s foundation, I don’t want that liability.

… you still build beauty fences. But lagging into a house isn’t as bad as your making it out to be.

[JaimiePiersonMusic]

I am building a fence (because no one would come to quote - all said too busy). I wanted to post on the side of the stars and next to the house, turns out the ones that build the retaining wall and drainage system were sloppy and concrete all in that area. So now I have a 6ft gate instead of a 3ft - oh well. But I need to be able to close it. I was gonna post to the house since it’s the corner of the wall/drainage. How would I put the 4x4 wood post without causing issues? I have a masonry drill, so would I just get a post holder and drill into the concrete?

[chriscarmichael]

What about with a driveway or walkway running the entire fence area? Two posts were set into the slab but for some reason next to the house, they didn’t? Bottom bracket bolted into slab or….sadly, attach to house, or both?

[SeeLifeBro]

What about a concrete CMU block house? Would that be the exception? I think I'm going to have to do that because of a drainage line.

[Yohann]

I have a post that is right next to the foundation like the example but the problem is that there is a slope and the soil likes to migrate away from the foundation and it's taking the post with it, causing it to lean away from the house.

[stardave]

My house walls are concrete filled CMUs (cinder blocks), water infiltration in more likely at my windows and doors than the fence attachment.

[jonlipi]

Is the Postmaster Plus with welded plate that SWI offers on their website appropriate as a gate post?

[jnicholson]

So, we had an addition put on the back, and due to a birch tree between the house and street (probably as old as the house) and its roots that have infiltrated the old rain drains, that front portion of the gutters had to be tied into the rain drains around the addition to the other side of the back of the house and then down to the street on the other side. I dont see any other option for me specifically, other than attaching it to the house itself. I dont have a different option, do I? I cannot put a post in the ground next to the house.

[His_Scout_Sixty]

I have concrete, but it’s not straight. It curves in the middle. I can’t use the metal post because they would angle towards each other. Don’t want to drill to my neighbors fence because I don’t want any problems. So what should I do? Cut a square of concrete?