Cpl ideas. Locate the Mfr, maybe online, and look at the
kit parts. See if you want them or not.
For strength, galvanized pipe is cemented in front of some garage
water heaters and furnaces to protect them from cars. Additionally,
these are filled with cement.
You could put a cement base, with a piece of rebar.
Later, place the post over the rebar and fill with some cement.
You need not fill the post totally, but may, It WILL impede the
addition of screws, later, however. So order of you doing things
or timing, before the cement hardens, can be important.
I do not know the size exactly, but much 2x2 is 1 1/2" and
1 1/2 X 2 = 3. Alternately, there are round poles about 3".
You could fill the top with expanding foam to make them
secure. This foam tends to act like a glue as well as a filler.
IF YOU SELECT to use foam this way, we must talk further
of the caveats of application.
BillSF9c
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Vinyl fence post question Posted by: "snaffles@essex1 Even though I measured wrong yesterday... I am still going to plan on cutting some 4 x 4's down to fit inside some of the 3 x 3 vinyl fence. It really shocks me that any manufacturer would make a vinyl post that small. The lady I purchased the used vinyl fence from used it for her horse lot. She did not give me the end posts. I am assuming that those were seated in cement. The rest of the posts were tamped in dirt and they never moved. Joyce On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:09 AM, David Cox <dcwired@att.net <mailto:dcwired@att.net> > wrote: May I suggest an alternative to a new, longer post? Dig a 3' deep hole and fill it with concrete up to 1' below the ground level (the depth your posts will extend down to). Insert some type of rod or pipe in the center extending a foot or so above ground. Drill a hole the size of the rod or pipe (say 1 1/4" diameter or so) into the bottom of the post and slide the post down onto the rod or pipe for support.
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