Fencing
Fencing provides a vital partition to neighbouring gardens and allows a backdrop for your garden. Fences can be a feature in their own right allowing you to hang baskets and climb plants up them. There are many different styles, materials, sizes and colours to choose from.
The most common type of fencing is traditional panels or make up sections with rails and feather edge boards. How long a new fence lasts depends on the garden conditions and the quality of fence you choose. It is important that fencing posts should be concreted into the ground about 600 millimetres. Post crete or concrete mixed on site can be used to secure the posts into position. We always recommend a fence post width of 100mm or 4 inch for maximum strength.
One of the most common failures of garden fences is the snapping of fence posts where the ground meets the post. This is due to moisture sitting next to where the concrete line is on the post. After a few years rot starts to set in weakening the post at the base. This is a common problem for the borough of Harrow and Hillingdon with their moisture retentive clay soils. This scenario can be put right by installing a concrete repair spur and quite simple to put right.
One of the strongest ways to secure a new fence and avoid this problem is to use concrete fencing posts. Concrete posts do last longer but do not look as good in my opinion. Concrete posts are not completely invincible usually fracturing at the top from freeze and thaw action eventually.
Whether you use concrete or timber posts as long as they are installed by a competent landscape gardener your fence will last the test of time for years to come. Please get in contact with Harrow & Hillingdon Landscape Gardeners for all your garden fencing projects.