How to install a mailbox and post. Easy! Home Mender.
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- The Home Mender, Dustin Luby, shows us how to please a mailman with a brand new mailbox and post. Easy! You can do it! Home Mender.
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Great DIY video! Short, to the point and edited well. I wish all DIY videos were like this.
awesome bob! thanks so much for the comment! enjoy your new mailbox!
Bob 26: Great comment: One of the best one-liners I have read.
Thank you! Just what I needed, quick, thorough and straight to the point!
Thank you Jj!
What a happy guy
You are awesome K. Thanks so much for commenting
Thank you for the video. I enjoyed watching. I learned something. God Bless.
thanks for commenting!
you make it look this mailbox installation so easy. well done
Thank you suman The mailman will thank you also :-)
So informative because our new box came with zero screws. Thanks so much 🙌🏼
so awesome caroline! thanks for commenting!
thank you for making this easy
thank you mr trent!
Good job, and a good video.
+ron c. awesome ron! Thanks for watching
Outstanding 😊
thanks wilma!
Thank you!
thank you Nhap!
Thanks !!!!
thank you 610! appreciate the comment!
Outstanding
thank you pec!
Saludos I like how you get right to it in and out get it done thanks
thank you aron! appreciate the feedback!
And don't forget, make sure that the board you put on top of the post does not go all the way to the front of the box. Make sure that board is short enough to allow the door to open fully without the bottom of the door stopping on the board.
Awesome tip romans! thanks so much for sharing!
I love having an envious box
it's the little things in life.. thanks for commenting shawn!
Home Mender HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?!?!?
lol...your name says shawn G...just a guess..lol
Thanks Dustin. Does the mailbox come with the holes that line up with the holes on the mounting bracket? Are these standardized or do I have to buy Gibraltar for both? Also what kind of screws did you use to fasten the mounting bracket to the post?
hey tom... the plate comes with screws and they are standard :)
is there a large mailbox for apartment complex hallways which is not bulky?
hey bronx...not too sure friend.
Did you use Quikrete ??
hi mike the man..looks like it! thanks for watching!
Wat brand of driil and circular saw u used here and how much were they?
Angel Guzman hi angel! Makita is about the only thing I work with. They are awesome. Should be a link in the description!
How do you make an opening so you can lock the box?
hey robert....you may need a locking mailbox for that one...i hope this helps!
Where do you get the mounting bracket? Cheers!
truckinhell hey truck! I’ll look for a link and put it in the description this morning.
hey Truck! heres the link to the mounting bracket..cheers to you!
goo.gl/Rb2HEk
Many thanks for your help. I live in Australia and love the U.S Mail boxes. I’m wanting to put one at my place. Cheers!
so awesome! its great to hear from you!
If you live in snow country like I do, instead of screwing the mail box to the mounting plate, use two wrap around bungie cords. Then when 2 tons of wet snow come flying off the county snow plow as the drivers want to set speed records to get the job done, the box will rotate or give way without breaking into a dozen pieces. You simply rotate it upright again, or pick it up out of the snow drift and reattach it. Saves buying a new mailbox (or two or three) every winter. Ask me how I know.
lol awesome tip danny!..thanks so much for sharing!
I like simple. I'd just be a bit worried about the snowplow knocking it over, since the post will need to be closer to the street w/ the mailbox directly on top of the post.
SokemRokemRobot hi sokem ! We don't get many snow plows in Virginia Beach. ! Hope it helped you. Thanks for the comment!
I posted this above before I read your comment. Here is what I wrote:If you live in snow country like I do, instead of screwing the mail box to the mounting plate, use two wrap around bungie cords. Then when 2 tons of wet snow come flying off the county snow plow as the drivers want to set speed records to get the job done, the box will rotate or give way without breaking into a dozen pieces. You simply rotate it upright again, or pick it up out of the snow drift and reattach it. Saves buying a new mailbox (or two or three) every winter. Ask me how I know.As far as the post goes, I put a platform on mine and attached the back of the box to the post. This way the post sits farther back from the road.
Just to let you know Mailmen love big mailboxes....the bigger the better !
thanks so much for commenting!
I am surprised you (seemingly) placed the wood post directly in contact with the soil at the bottom of the hole. Why not place some rocks at the bottom?
Also was surprised that you did not suggest using a quick setting concrete such as Quikrete. You kept saying "concrete". And to simply assume that enough water would be available from the surrounding soil for regular concrete to work properly was a bit much.
Would it not have been as good idea to tell folks to wait until the concrete hardened prior to installing the mounting plate and box?
hey TT..the grounds got a lot of moisture friend...call backs on posts not setting aren't very common.. as far as the wood to soil...some put rocks in...i don't.after all, its just a mailbox...thanks for commenting!
Why bother with concrete? When a car hits it, it's going to break either way...
over time boxes that aren't concreted tend to lean toward the street. Then they open up and mail ends up in the street.
Yup that’s what happened to mine! 🚜 ran it over
And the reason so many mailbox posts, that aren't concreted in, begin to lean, is because so many people only install the posts 16" to 24"......If you are going to begin with an 8' 4x4 like the one this guy used, it makes sense to dig deeper, and put the post 36" to 48" in the ground. Then if you don't use concrete, but instead do a good job of packing the dirt, as you put the dirt back in the hole, the post will remain straight for the life of the post. Just like a fence post! Duh!
lol hey will! anyone who digs a mailbox post 4 ft in the ground needs to get some hobbies...much easier to pop a bag of concrete around it. and be done