How to Bury an Electronic Dog Fence Wire
An electronic dog fence keeps your dog in your yard without the expense of building a wire or wooden fence. Instead you build a perimeter around your yard with underground dog fence wire that you connect to an electronic box. When your dog is in the yard, a small electric tingle in the dog's collar warns it that the underground dog fence is nearby. With training, the dog learns to avoid the dog fence wire. Burying the wire is the most difficult part of the installation process, but it shouldn't take long if you have the right tools on hand. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Graph paper
- Construction flags
- Trencher (rental)
- Dog fence wire
- Wire nut
- Silicone caulking
- Caulk gun
- Concrete saw (rented)
- PVC pipe
- Tamper
Instructions
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Draw the layout of your electronic dog fence wire on a piece of graph paper. This scale model can allow you to make adjustments for flowerbeds, driveways and sidewalks. Avoid areas where the wire must go deeper than 12 inches. Burying the dog fence wire deeper than that may affect its transmission.
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Push small construction marking flags into the ground where you plan to install the fence. These flags remain in place until the dog learns the location of the boundaries for the electronic fence.
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Rent a self-propelled trencher that is capable of laying the wire at the same time it digs the trench. Load the wire for the dog fence onto the trencher's spool.
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Pull enough wire off the spool to connect to the electronic control box. Set the trencher to the appropriate depth. Start the trencher. Follow the flags around the perimeter of your property with the trencher.
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Splice the wire if necessary. Strip off three-quarters inch of the jacket from the end of each wire. Connect the wire with a wire nut.
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Lay the wire in an expansion joint on concrete. Caulk over the joint with silicone caulking. Otherwise, cut the concrete with a rented concrete saw. Lay the wire in the crack and seal over it with caulking. Another option to cross a concrete sidewalk is to work a piece of PVC pipe under the concrete and run the wiring through it as a conduit.
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Tamp the dirt back into place. Most trenchers cut the trench, run the wire and fill the trench, but you may want to tidy the appearance of the lawn with a tamper.
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Connect the wiring to the control box. The box should indicate if the fence is working properly.
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Tips & Warnings
The dog fence only works if you give your dog the proper training.
In most cases, you can leave the wiring on the surface of the ground as it goes through rock gardens and flowerbeds. You can cover it with other rocks or mulch if you wish.
