Just a quick question about installing fence posts. We would like to have a 6 foot high, Cedar wooden stockade fence installed in our yard. My question is, when putting in the fence posts for the wooden fence, do the fence posts HAVE to be set in concrete? I know that most fence companies do set the fence posts in concrete, about 2-3 feet below the frost line.
I have read many mixed reviews about setting posts in concrete, because when the posts rot out, it is a backbreaking effort to replace them because you have to dig out and lift up the heavy concrete.
I have read, as well as heard from people, that it's actually better to put the posts in a couple inches of 1 and 1/2 inch crushed rock or gravel.
So, do you have to have the posts put in concrete, or can we opt. to go with the crushed rock or gravel?
Thanks!