Comments on: How do you install a new mailbox, particularly the post? http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/ Thu, 06 May 2010 16:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom-SJ http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-459 Tom-SJ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:41:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-459 You should either use a pressure treated post, or paint the bottom 2 feet of the post with a termite and fungicide treatement (Termin-8 is one brand) to minimize rotting of the buried end. Dig a post hole about 18 to 24 inches deep. Put a couple of inches of gravel and rock in the bottom of the hole to let any water drain away from the post. Install the post and make sure it is plumb in two directions. You may want to brace it with a couple of diagonal boards nailed to some stakes. Use a premixed fence post concrete mix, and at the top of the hole, build it up about 1" above grade level, then slope it down to drain the water away from the post. Let it cure for 24 hrs.<br><b>References : </b><br> You should either use a pressure treated post, or paint the bottom 2 feet of the post with a termite and fungicide treatement (Termin-8 is one brand) to minimize rotting of the buried end.

Dig a post hole about 18 to 24 inches deep. Put a couple of inches of gravel and rock in the bottom of the hole to let any water drain away from the post. Install the post and make sure it is plumb in two directions. You may want to brace it with a couple of diagonal boards nailed to some stakes. Use a premixed fence post concrete mix, and at the top of the hole, build it up about 1" above grade level, then slope it down to drain the water away from the post. Let it cure for 24 hrs.
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]]> By: Manny M http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-458 Manny M Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:24:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-458 if your old post is set in cement it will be hard to get out, if you can get it out you need to enlarge the hole and put cement in around the new post, an 8 inch piece of 2 by 8 should be attached to the post and the mail box is attached to that, you will find holes at the lower edge of the mail box to either nail or screw it to the 2 by8.<br><b>References : </b><br>old fart if your old post is set in cement it will be hard to get out, if you can get it out you need to enlarge the hole and put cement in around the new post, an 8 inch piece of 2 by 8 should be attached to the post and the mail box is attached to that, you will find holes at the lower edge of the mail box to either nail or screw it to the 2 by8.
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]]> By: Porterhouse http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-457 Porterhouse Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:18:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-457 You'll need a shovel, a level and a screw driver (either manual or power) Dig out the old post, place the new post into the same hole, you can fill with instant mix concrete which is also available at Home Depot and secure the post with 2x4's until the concrete dries and cures. Make sure you level the post when you do this or the box will look goofy when you put it on the post. Hope this helps, and good luck.<br><b>References : </b><br> You’ll need a shovel, a level and a screw driver (either manual or power) Dig out the old post, place the new post into the same hole, you can fill with instant mix concrete which is also available at Home Depot and secure the post with 2×4′s until the concrete dries and cures. Make sure you level the post when you do this or the box will look goofy when you put it on the post. Hope this helps, and good luck.
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]]> By: splashman61 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-456 splashman61 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:40:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-456 Remove the old post completely. Dig a slightly larger hole about 1' diameter and 2' deep. insert post and fill with quick drying cement. be sure to use a level to make sure the post is straight.<br><b>References : </b><br> Remove the old post completely. Dig a slightly larger hole about 1′ diameter and 2′ deep. insert post and fill with quick drying cement. be sure to use a level to make sure the post is straight.
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]]> By: girlnblack http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-455 girlnblack Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:09:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-455 BEFORE you sink the post, check with your delivery person to see what the local requirements are for the setback from the street and the height of the box (usually dependant on the height of the window for delivery driver). See instructions:<br><b>References : </b><br>http://www.mail-house.com/install.htm BEFORE you sink the post, check with your delivery person to see what the local requirements are for the setback from the street and the height of the box (usually dependant on the height of the window for delivery driver).

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]]> By: pudding_pops2003 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post/#comment-454 pudding_pops2003 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:34:59 +0000 http://www.mylittlemailbox.com/mailbox-post/how-do-you-install-a-new-mailbox-particularly-the-post#comment-454 well put the pole in the smae hole put some cement in it to keep it strudy let it dry then put the mail box on<br><b>References : </b><br> well put the pole in the smae hole put some cement in it to keep it strudy let it dry then put the mail box on
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