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Hey guys, I'm Rocky with Indy's Finest Fence, we are located in Indianapolis, Indiana. We are at the I.C.E. which is the Indianapolis Car Exchange we got a pretty good size project here on the north side of Indy and we are using Fence Armor on all of our new installations and the existing installations. How we came in touch with the product was the customer here, we already sold the fence itself so the customer comes to us and asks "How can we protect our investment on this project?” but also they already had a mile of existing PVC fence here. We'll take some pictures and show some video of some of the existing posts that are already here that is 8 years old and half of the posts are already gone from weed wackers. He has a company come in and I am sure they do the best job that they can but over time no matter what the weed wacker is going to go through, so I thought about the product that I had seen in the World Fence News, which was Fence Armor which can save his existing product and help his investment on this project. So that is what we are here doing. It is a 48 inch, 3 Rail PVC, going all the way around all of his car lots, these auctions always do here. We got 3 miles of fence to install plus some existing to rework. We are going to do the Fence Armor on the existing fence and some on the new installation also. So what I am doing is we are using the Fence Armor white around the 5x5 PVC post. We are going to raise it up to where it is half way up on the grass around it so that the trimmer interacts with the center and gives you plenty more effective area. We are going to screw it in we are using 1/4 inch bits, and they go in fairly seamlessly. Each one is fairly simple. Probably less than 2 minutes to do an entire post, all 4 screws all the way around. This is our first time using this product and we think this is a great product. and we will definitely recommend it on further projects on down the line, and we are going to take a sample with us and try to push it. There really isn't a whole lot to push, the product pretty much pushes itself. For customers it basically helps protect their investment for the long run. It's all there. It sells itself. Absolutely it is a new product so it shouldn’t be any problem. I think every fence company should push it, not necessarily for themselves, its great you can make a little money on it but two for the customer itself. We spend the time and effort to install a quality product, but in 5 years down the line when the weed eaters come through it and have the post fall apart, really what have we done if we have not protected the customer's investment and try to help them out. It's simple for the guys, maybe another hour on the job, the guys could install on every post on a 300 foot job. So labour wise it's all there, you are just helping the customer out by pushing the product. Whether it is wood, whether it is vinyl, whether it is ornamental steel, chainlink, all across the board. Absolutely. It's the best.

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Hey lawn care nation, in this video we're gonna take a first look at Fence Armor coming up. Hey lawn care nation, a couple weeks ago I posted on Instagram that I was watching Canada's version of Shark Tank called Dragon's Den and that the episode featured a company that I recognized from Instagram called Fence Armor and after posting that Fence Armor liked that post and they reached out to me and asked me if I would like to try out Fence Armor and see what it's all about. So I thought to myself… Hey, that's perfect I actually have fence posts in my own house fence that are actually exposed when I'm trimming. They actually have lawn that grows right up to those two posts. The rest of the fence has sort of a gravel border all around it and there's no worry about the trimmer hitting those posts but so they sent me a couple of different versions of their Fence Armor. They sent me one of their full sets that actually slide into each other and completely wrap a fence post to try out and see how those look. They also sent me a couple of these front faceplate style ones. Now as you can see these ones are very very shallow and the reason for this style is for fence posts where you have that bottom piece of wood that goes along the bottom that wouldn't let you access you know all the way completely around the fence post so you can just put this against that front facing of the fence post to protect, you know that fence posts against that trimmer line, So these are probably the ones I'm going to end up using for that fence because of the same sort of scenario where I have that bottom panel there. So as you can see, this is just a small sampling of the products that they have available and the Fence Armor is Available in different fence post sizes as well as they have some other products for things like mailbox fence posts. They're also available in a wide array of colors. I chose the black For my applications to match the black hinges and hardware that I have on that particular gate and fence that these will be installed But you can get woodgrain versions, you can get different colors to match different you know stains on your fence and you can even go with their Patriotic line and get your fence posts wrapped in Old Glory if you like, so just a lot of variation a lot of customization that you can have there and you can mix and match as well if you had your fence stained one color but the opposite side the neighbor has stained another color you could get two different colors and have one on each side to match that stain or that color of that fence on either side. So a lot of different options there So Fence Armor is made in a two-piece design which makes it easy to provide 1/2 post protection or if accessible full post protection by putting the two halves together. They’re also made of Galvanized steel for rust and corrosion resistance and and they have a tough Powder-Coated finish to keep the Fence Armor looking new for years to come now. Another neat feature of them is their slotted design there. So when you have the two halves together and you're mounting your screws on the two sides there so that slotted design allows for expansion and contraction In the wood during temperature changes and the corners aren't completely square They've got a nice round edge so that when you're trimming against them it's not destroying your trimmer line and breaking off pieces It allows the trimmer line just to sort of glide over that area there. So let's go outside and do a quick install and see how they look. Okay, so here is the two fence posts I'm gonna be putting the Fence Armor on you can see the grass gets pretty close to these posts here particularly this one from the corner you can see that it is already worn out over the years from a string trimmer hitting it on this front edge so like I said, I'm probably gonna be going with just in front faceplate ones for this just to cover up that damage and protect it from further damage in particular like these ones here you can see with that bottom sort of kick panel depending on where you have that even using a half piece have this larger one won't work because it won't extend all the way now if you didn't have this or you had clearance you could take the two halves and actually wrap the whole bottom or alternatively, you can use just half of one or you can use just one of these smaller just front face ones and just use that for that front face piece. Like I said I'm probably gonna end up just using these front face ones just to protect that front face of the post, fits a bit snug because wrong size was ordered. Fence Armor also available in 4-1/8" size for posts like these. Just above the concrete there, Fence Armor recommends installation to be 1"-1.5" above ground for maximum protection. There you go nice and easy nice and simple, yeah, this one can actually mount it just a little bit higher because of where the damage previous damage was I want to make sure I cover that the bottom of the post is completely fine because it kind of digs down and the grass is a bit taller here. So I'm just gonna mount this one just a little bit higher so that I know I am, you know in that vulnerable area. There you go guys there's the installed Fence Armor, as predicted, I used the smaller just faceplate only ones because of that sort of kick panel and a piece of wood there on the bottom. It doesn't allow for the bigger pieces to go on and likewise on that corner as well you can see it's now protected where it was getting the most damage at least on that front face. Okay, so I don't actually have a fence post that's exposed all the way to the bottom to the grass all the way around to be able to demonstrate the other two-piece Fence Armor, but I do have a piece of a fence post that I can do so I just set it here on the grass to basically show how to install these. So basically you would put your first piece on wrapped around the one side and then the other side would just go like that and as you can see with that slotted piece there once installed and you put your screw there that would allow the Fence Armor to expand and contract as the wood expands and contracts in temperature changes, and this would give you 360 degree of protection when you're trimming all the way around your posts so if you have a fence let’s say, that’s set up higher and the whole bottom of the fence post is exposed or your mailbox post they can get that 360 degree protection in those sorts of cases So that's it for this one guys. If you liked this video make sure you hit that like button if you haven't subscribed yet consider subscribing leave a comment down below and let me know if you've ever used any sort of fence post protection for any of your lawn care clients or if any of your lawn care clients already had some sort of fence post protection installed on their fences. So that's it for this one guys here's to wishing you guys all overwhelming success and freedom in your lawn care business. Bye for now.

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Hello friends today I review a nifty outdoor home-improvement product called Fence Armor stay tuned. The good people at Fence Armor reached out to me a little while ago and asked if I would review their product and I happily said yes so they sent me a box with these three packages. Inside as the packaging states, Fence Armor is proudly made in Canada and so the instructions on the box are in English and en Français. There isn't much to the instructions, not that they're necessarily needs to be it's more of a description of the types of finishes on one side and then on the back it shows that you can have these for wood, metal, vinyl or round fittings. All right, now let's open up the package. Inside we have a crumpled up piece of brown paper for cushioning during shipping and then there are six pieces of Fence Armor. My fence posts are each about four inches square so I'm going to put two of these back-to-back and that will cover the base so six pieces does three bases of fence posts and as you can see they're incredibly sturdy upon closer inspection you can see that I have a nice wood finish here because I have wood fence posts. Fence Armor is stamped at the top and on the back, you get a better look of that galvanized steel. Installation is a breeze with these self-tapping screws you just put them up and go and you don't need to pre-drill a hole, my one complaint though is that the screws have Robertson heads where I live Phillips heads are the most common and most people don't have Robertson bits, it would have been nice if a bit was included in the packaging but fortunately enough for me I was able to find something and make it work. If you enjoy watching product reviews like this head on over to my Patreon page and tell me. A buck a month is a great way of saying keep up the good work Midwest Man Mountain, thanks. Well I used the weed whacker on my Fence Armor and I didn't see any marks so I picked a post in my backyard and I thought I'm gonna give it a rough treatment here we go by now you can see all the damage on the post just below the Fence Armor, the piece itself is just barely scraped some of the finishes off but that's not too bad let's take a look underneath of the fence now look at that the post its great. The only mark is the hole from the screw there's not even an indent from the hammer I'm very very pleased if it can stand up to all of these it's going to be great for weed whacking. Well there you have it Fence Armor is incredibly strong it can easily withstand cuts from a weed whacker and bumps from a lawn mower and wax from a hatchet and cuts from a saw and everything in between and your fence post will be entirely protected I was surprised I didn't know what to expect when I was beating it with a hammer for instance I thought for sure it would cause a dent in my fence post underneath but to my surprise it was incredibly protected now of course you're not going to go out and go into your fence post and take a saw to it you know purposefully or take a hammer to it or an ice pick for goodness sake but I want to show you the truth and the durability of this. It's a galvanized steel and it's pretty strong, Fence Armor is very intuitive right from the get-go, I mean it's very simple um it's one piece screw hole screw hole screw hole and you just line it up and screw it in where you want to go, the packs of self-tapping screws are really handy you don't have to pre-drill the hole and then line it up after the fact you just stick it in and drive it in where you want to go. The only con it was that the pack of self-tapping screws didn’t have a Robertson bit so if they would add that to the pack moving forward that would be great but if you have a couple bits at home you should be able to find one that works I highly recommend Fence Armor for anybody who wants to protect a post of any kind be it let's say the base of a wooden basketball hoop or a mailbox post or a fence post of course or so you have a post in your garden that you use for a trellis this would be terrific as well, it'll go a long way for anybody who just put up a big fence say you just installed one you spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a fence and you want it to last a long time, Fence Armor is the perfect addition it's the cherry on top of that beautiful cake of a fence you just put up. Put Fence Armor on the base of all of your posts and that way you never have any sort of rot out or nicks or any sort of damage on the base of your fence posts I mean It's kind of a no-brainer. So in sum, I definitely give Fence Armor a great big thumbs up special thanks to the people of Fence Armor for reaching out to me to do a review, I really enjoyed it and they make a very nice aesthetic and practical addition to my fence. Thank you very much, thank you all for taking the time to watch this video I'm the Midwest Man Mountain, thanks for subscribing and until next time bye.

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The company Fence Armor contacted me and asked if I would do a test and review of their fence post protection product so you might be asking what is Fence Armor? And it's a metal plate that is powder coated to look like the material that you're putting on or putting this on and so I've got this brown color that's supposed to match somewhat to this post here and then I also asked for samples of their black because my garden fence is going to be black they're going to use black caps on it it would be nice to have matching materials so we'll get to this in a later video so just a little bit about this company of course it's called fence Armor, it's a Canadian company and they advertise using American metal which is kind of a nice thing to hear that it's not made overseas. They have various colors so let's say you want to use this product on a vinyl like a white vinyl fence they have the product for that or let's say the colors here are just plain Galvanized Steel, White, Black, Redwood, Clay, Almond, USA Flag, Brown and Green and you can do custom colors but I am sure they're gonna cost a bit more. They also have round posts and metal post protectors so I've got two posts set up here and that's going to be the place that I'm going to be testing this product out so I'm going to show you how to install and then we'll get our tests underway. Now when you order this product you can buy enough for one side or if you get two plates it will cover two sides so simply place this towards the bottom edge of the post here now because the corners are rounded it'll be kind of snug but it's okay. Now the screws that they have are stainless steel so they're going to withstand weather but you'll note that the head of the screw is square which means you have to have the driver that is also square, so just a note you may have to pick one of those up so it's got options for screwing here in the front and the sides and in the back now on one side of the plate the hole is open so if your post is cracked or warped or bent you can actually arrange this a little different and get a better fit than if the holes were just solid so I'm going to take this and just screw it in here snug it up nice okay and that's all it is that's all it takes to get this installed but to test out the product I've got my weed trimmer here it's got three different sets of line here and of course I've got my eye protection and ear protection so the test I'm going to perform is I'm going to hit both the protected and non protected post here and compare the difference to see just how much damage is done to each. So let's give it a try time to take a look at the results here so I see no visible change on the protection here and then coming over to the other side there is obvious corner rounding and destruction there of that post I would call that a successful test I don't see any damage to the Fence Armor and the post without the Fence Armor obvious damage so test one successful the next test I like to perform is about 30 seconds of straight attacking that Fence Armor and then swap over and attack that uncovered post and we'll compare the difference between the two. So that should give us a good example of what it's going to be like over time for using a trimmer over and over again so let's try it out a couple things to note from this test first of all just a slight bit of powder on this plate but when wiped off no obvious signs of damage so I would have to say that concludes these things are built to last so coming over here to the unprotected post I noticed that significant damage has occurred and also those sharp corners have pulled off all the line of the weed whacker so definitely nice to have these rounded edges here on the Fence Armor. I have to admit I'm impressed with Fence Armor, these tests were pretty simple but I think it shows that the product is very strong and certainly does protect the posts because even though I ran this for 30 seconds on each you know over the course of a couple years you would certainly see a lot of damage to a fence post. If you like what you see check out their website I'll leave a link to it in the description be sure to LIKE comment and subscribe. I'm Seth Johnson with Land to House and I will see you in the next video.

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My name is Andy, owner of Yorkshire Fence & Deck. I started in England six years ago, had the opportunity to emigrate to Vancouver and here we are and I brought my expertise and trying to rewrite the wheel in BC with all our fencing. Yeah we do prefab cedar fencing, hand built and customized to most customers preferences. Composite, vinyl and soon to be aluminum. Basically at Christmas last year decided to try to tap in and find a product that protected the posts, customers were always asking can we do extra concrete we do extra this, so let's just kill that and get to the problem and that's where I found Al at Fence Armor and it's been great ever since. 99% of customers are going with it, it’s protecting from above ground and now below ground with the Postsaver and it's been it's been fantastic and customers are spreading and now I'm getting educated by them when I go to estimates. They're asking all these these post protectors these post protectors so the news is spreading. So Andy, what made you want to find a solution for them? I wanted to be different I want to be above everybody else and when we build things we do it once and once only. This product adds to that philosophy. So we're people complaining about problems with the bottoms of their post? Oh yeah yeah, constantly especially on shraddah’s like this, constantly chip-ins from you know weed whackers people who don't really care they just weed whack to town. Also rot that's one of the main issues in BC similar to England it's a rain forest it's all soft mush rain rain rain we got ants, carpenter ants are a big issue as well so this helps protect so it's a double double whammy. Perfect, and the wood, what type of wood do you use? We use mainly cedar western red cedar, old-growth and new growth and pressure-treated there there are three well the two two means for what we do I mean this is new growth cedar so this is anything up to sixty years old it's more of a yellow shade than a western that's the old growth and we can show you that on the other sides. Beautiful so then when you're quoting Fence Armor now what type of customer are you looking for? To be honest there's no target everybody's accepting it from the entry level who just wants to fix it and sell all the way to the top. So does it differentiate you from the other guys? Yes because nobody is even interested in installing extras they just want to turn up do the fence, walk away. What would you say is the biggest problem in fencing in BC? No post protection. Wow. No post protection, there’s wood fences everywhere no post protection, fences only falls over when the post give and that's the issue. That’s the issue. So you use it, the double, you try to sell both the Fence Armor and the Postsaver. Yeah we do we aim to do both because we're protecting above and below. Below I cannot control so I'd rather just protect it and it's done and above ground we see it and it's good. We personally prefer the 6-inch Pro Series because we've got extra on top. So you put half in two inches in the ground? Yeah we go four inches above because the rules are different for out here we have different grounds so we go four inches above two inches in the concrete and we put a nice chamfered bevel then everything underneath is protected.

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Fence Armor has done a great job in supporting the lawn care YouTube community, including events like I had, the 2018 Lawn Care Life Conference. Fence Armor supported that and sponsored that event so let's talk about Fence Armor. Hey Lawn Care Nation, in this video we're gonna take a first look at Fence Armor. Coming up. So, we're gonna correct that. We're gonna make sure that never happens again. This post was pretty beat up but uh pretty much these two screws, one on that side, one on that side. If you really wanted to you could put some kind of weather sealer up under it but I think we'll be good without it. Now I used to use another kind but it was plastic and I would just tear it up you know after a year but this is like galvanized steel I believe, I don't think it's gonna... So those of you with wooden posts, either your mailbox post or fence posts you know that you weed whack around those and when you weed whack around those you're hitting the wood, you’re taking chunks out of the wood and you're actually creating a problem for yourself right so either you don't weed whack well around your post or you just go in hard and you just hope for the best that you're not going to destroy your post well Fence Armor now makes this exactly what it is. It's an armor that you put around the bottom of the posts and it's made of this metal here and it's powder coated and it's beautiful you can get it in all different colors and all that and you put that right around your post so I’m gonna do that on my mailbox which is a challenge I've had this is gonna solve it. So that last thing I am going to be doing for these boxes is going through and applying a product called Fence Armor, this is just a small low-profile metal bracket that slips onto the bottom of the post to protect it from getting eaten up from a weed eater. It connects to the post with just one simple screw and this way we can come through here and not worry about the wood on the post boxes getting chewed up over time. You don't want it directly on the ground. I feel like that would hold water and you're not gonna be weed eating this low anyway so you want it probably about where you would hit your string at probably an inch up that way you could hit two to three inches on it so I figured I'd show you guys this, just a quick little product you can put on mailboxes, anything. Now another neat feature of them is there design there so when you have the two halves together and you're mounting your screws on the two sides there, so that slotted design allows for expansion and contraction in the wood during temperature changes and the corners aren't completely square they've got a nice round edge so that when you're trimming against them it's not destroying your trimmer line and breaking off pieces it allows the trimmer line just to sort of glide over that area there. So, as you guys can see, it is extremely easy to install anybody can do this they make it simple. From a commercial point of view it would be phenomenal, all the years I've been doing this business I've seen so many fence posts destroyed from trimmer string even stuff as small as point 0.85 or 0.95 which is typical at 90% everybody uses I've seen it demolish string. I've had employees that have just wrecked people's fences, mailbox posts, I've wrecked my own fair share without a doubt. So, this definitely takes care of that. Couple things to note from this test, first of all just a slight bit of powder on this plate but when wiped off no obvious signs of damage, so I would have to say that concludes these things are built to last. These guys actually really support the community. They comment on everybody's videos and they're really nice folks, Stephanie, Al, the rest of the team. Actually saw them at GIE last year, super nice people, will do anything for you kind of people and their little invention here is Fence Armor, so, fence post protectors. But I will tell you this, the people over at Fence Armor are awesome people, they take care of you, you message them, you email them, they respond like that. I'm a big believer in Fence Armor products, so much so I used them to protect my vinyl fences at Petty's Garage and my home. It's a strong product that's built to last. Fence Armor is Richard Petty approved.

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I swear by Fence Armor, this stuff's amazing it does nothing but create longevity on your posts you don't have to worry about your trimmers you don't have to worry about pesky landscapers from commercial properties coming by and cutting your posts down without you even knowing. So so Andy what what made you want to find a solution for that? I wanted to be different I wanted to be above everybody else and when we build things we do it once and once only this product adds to that philosophy. Well with our customers, it has given us another great option to get them to protect the length of their fence that they are paying a lot of money for and it's just been an absolutely great product. How we came in touch with the product was the customer here we had already sold the fence itself so the customer comes to us and says well how can we protect our investment on this project but also they already had a mile of existing pvc fence here we'll take some pictures and show some video of some of the existing uh posts that are already here and it’s eight years old and uh half of the posts are already gone from weed whackers he has a company come in and I'm sure that they do the best that they can but over time no matter what the weed whacker is going to go through so I thought about the product that I had seen in the World Fence News which was Fence Armor which can save his existing product and help his investment on this project so that's what we're going to. Try to tap in and find a product that protected the post, customers were always asking can we do extra concrete can we do extra this, so let's just kill that and get to the problem and that's where I found Al at Fence Armor and it's been great ever since 99% of customers are going with it it's protecting from above ground and now below ground with the Postsaver. Well with a company like Fence Armor at the bottom of the post would definitely keep the weed whacker from hitting the wood itself. Hey guys Ian Robson here with Davis Fencing, we're using the Fence Armor today on our new fence post that we're putting in, installing, setting them three inches off the bottom of the ground for uh lawn maintenance and protection of the post and uh the same galvanized steel we use for our fence hangers so nothing rusts it's good for moisture and uh great product to use for sure on your fence and we trust it the best defense for your fence. Got these in today from Fence Armor, this is cool man I mean these guys are on top of it these are um galvanized steel caps that will fit about any wood posts you can dream of it's enough uh like a four by four you know there's oftentimes they're different three and five eights three and a half three and three eighths three and three quarters they even fit a vinyl post so these tops are interchangeable this is galvanized steel with this adjustable claw on the inside no screws stainless steel claw when you push that down on the post it locks on there so super simple slide on the post done deal you can have a point on it or none so here's the cap with no point on it you can order the finials to go on top so you have different options this video is kind of cool because you can put a flag in that like an American flag or something for the holidays you can slide those little little bitty wood wood stake flags in there and display them on top of your fence definitely pretty uh definitely awesome check them out Fence Armor.