Lean your shoulder against an aluminum fence rail, and you can usually feel it give a little before your weight finishes pushing.

Concrete around a fence post does not rot, but the wood inside it does. After years in damp soil, your post softens at the ground line and gives way, while the concrete collar around its base stays where it was poured.

The dark, blotchy staining spreading across your fence's shaded side is not the sun fading your wood the way it fades every other board.

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