Are Fence Post Sleeves Any Good?

There's products that you can wrap your wood fence post in to make them last longer; but do they actually work?

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[shkhamd]

The post sleeve is good, but the biggest downsize of it is how much it cost, about 18-20 dollars each (yes, I have tried to buy them from amazon and then backed off).
One 4x4 10 ft costs about the same price, if you have a lot of posts to set, this will instantly double your cost per post.
I like the post sleeve, but I'd rather stick with oil based water sealant paints or some thin roofing tar applied with a brush.

Pressure treat wood preservatives with the water seal paint should give more or less similar result for a fraction of the cost.

[MrJoshcc]

Mmmm in florida here I'm at 8' advice sea level. 1/4 mile from the gulf and in the rainy season you can't dig 2' without hitting ground water so I suppose this won't work here

[scotgranger]

Love your video but have a question: Why doesn't anyone make a full 3 foot long sleeve that has a cap at one end that can be heat sealed before the post goes into the ground? It seems to me could eliminate any capillary action and make the post last more than 20 years. Is that a problem because you won't have profitable go-backs? lol.

[CB]

What if you had a couple of inches of concrete under the post too?

This is easy to achieve by digging a couple of inches deeper than the final level then pull the post up a couple of inches straight after pouring the Postcrete before it sets.

[OfficialMarkZuckerberg]

I like the idea of this but a 60lb bag of cement is only around $7, couldnt you fill the post hole with all concrete if tou dont mind the exposed cement look? Im not expert so i dont even know of a bag would fill a hole

[minato]

So this has a warranty of 20 years?
The same length the treated posts have themselves ?

[JaredCzaia]

Why not just use some 9", or better yet, 12" wide peel and stick flashing tape? You can get 75 feet of it for around 60 bucks.

[libertyvilleguy]

This is an advertisement, not your opinion on, and experience with, post sleeves. Booo.

[patrickgreen]

Just use the best
American native
Black locust
Last 50 to 80 years

[thelawdoc]

I gave a thumbs down to this obvious advertizement not because of any opinion about the company's product. I gave a thumbs down because the video makes no mention that one can sleeve their own posts with common materials for peanuts a post. There are many methods/recipes. I and my farmer friends up here in northern Maine (wet clay soil and darn cold temps) have posts in the ground for more than thirty years without rot. If you find a rotted post, it is only because someone in a rush did not sleeve it right -and that is rare, because like I said, common materials applied with common sense will save you the thousands of dollars you would otherwise send to this company.